Categorizing extent of tumor cell death response to cancer therapy using quantitative ultrasound spectroscopy and maximum mean discrepancy

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1390-1400

  Gangeh, Mehrdad J ^a,b   Sadeghi Naini, Ali ^a,b   Diu, Michael ^c   Tadayyon, Hadi ^a,b   Kamel, Mohamed S ^c   Czarnota, Gregory J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer treatment; Classification methods; Kernel methods; Nonparametric methods; Personalized medicine; Quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; KERNEL METHODS; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINES; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS;

CELL DEATH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SCREENING; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PATHOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; SCID MOUSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL DEATH; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84901922916     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2312254     Document Type: Article

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