Tumor sensitive matching flow: A variational method to detecting and segmenting perihepatic and perisplenic ovarian cancer metastases on contrast-enhanced abdominal CT

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 725-739

  Liu, Jianfei ^a   Wang, Shijun ^a   Linguraru, Marius George ^b,c   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic shape prior; Level set; Ovarian cancer metastases; Tumor sensitive matching flow

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TUMORS;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; LEVEL SET; OVARIAN CANCER METASTASIS; SHAPE PRIORS; TUMOR SENSITIVE MATCHING FLOWS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES;

PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORGAN SURFACE PARTITION; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPLEEN METASTASIS; TUMOR SENSITIVE MATCHING FLOW; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SECONDARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN TUMOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900448508     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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