Recommendations on how to establish evidence from auto-segmentation software in radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 317-320

  Valentini, Vincenzo ^a   Boldrini, Luca ^a   Damiani, Andrea ^a   Muren, Ludvig P ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autocontouring; Autosegmentation; Evidence; Similarity indices

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONTOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RADIOTHERAPY SOFTWARE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84910155270     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.09.014     Document Type: Editorial

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