Segmentation of Head and Neck Lymph Node Regions for Radiotherapy Planning Using Active Contour-Based Atlas Registration.
Sai Subrahmanyam GorthiValerie DuayNawal HouhouMeritxell Bach CuadraUlrike SchickMinerva BeckerAbdelkarim AllalJean-Philippe ThiranPublished in: IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. (2009)
Keyphrases
- lymph nodes
- lung cancer
- automatic detection
- ct data
- clinical applications
- probabilistic atlas
- automatic segmentation
- cancer diagnosis
- image guided
- image registration
- atlas based segmentation
- treatment planning
- anatomical features
- manual segmentation
- subcortical structures
- deformation field
- accurate segmentation
- multi atlas
- brain atlas
- medical images
- ct images
- ct scans
- intraoperative
- mr images
- atlas construction
- clinical practice
- computed tomography
- statistical shape model
- segmentation algorithm
- intensity distribution
- automated segmentation
- brain structures
- segmentation method
- markov random field
- cross sections
- medical imaging
- segmentation result
- three dimensional
- computer assisted
- mouse brain