Prostate segmentation algorithm using dyadic wavelet transform and discrete dynamic contour

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4943-4960

  Chiu, Bernard ^a,b   Freeman, George H ^a   Salama, M M A ^a   Fenster, Aaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; ONCOLOGY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTOURS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 8544284121     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/21/007     Document Type: Article

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