How much will linked deformable registrations decrease the quality of multi-atlas segmentation fusions?

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sjberg, Carl ^a,b   Johansson, Silvia ^a   Ahnesj, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Elekta AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LYMPH NODE; MANDIBLE; PAROTID GLAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; BOOK; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84924171939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-014-0251-1     Document Type: Article

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