A review on segmentation of positron emission tomography images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 76-96

  Foster, Brent ^a   Bagci, Ulas ^a   Mansoor, Awais ^a   Xu, Ziyue ^a   Mollura, Daniel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; MRI PET; PET; PET CT; Review; SUV; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; REVIEWS;

MRI PETS; PET IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

TRACER; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BODY IMAGE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84900818729     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.04.014     Document Type: Review

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