A review on segmentation of positron emission tomography images

B Foster, U Bagci, A Mansoor, Z Xu… - Computers in biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a non-invasive functional imaging method at
the molecular level, images the distribution of biologically targeted radiotracers with high …

PET-guided delineation of radiation therapy treatment volumes: a survey of image segmentation techniques

H Zaidi, I El Naqa - European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular …, 2010 - Springer
Historically, anatomical CT and MR images were used to delineate the gross tumour
volumes (GTVs) for radiotherapy treatment planning. The capabilities offered by modern …

Classification and evaluation strategies of auto‐segmentation approaches for PET: Report of AAPM task group No. 211

M Hatt, JA Lee, CR Schmidtlein, IE Naqa… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this educational report is to provide an overview of the present state‐
of‐the‐art PET auto‐segmentation (PET‐AS) algorithms and their respective validation, with …

Random walk and graph cut for co-segmentation of lung tumor on PET-CT images

W Ju, D Xiang, B Zhang, L Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate lung tumor delineation plays an important role in radiotherapy treatment planning.
Since the lung tumor has poor boundary in positron emission tomography (PET) images and …

Radiomics in oncological PET/CT: a methodological overview

S Ha, H Choi, JC Paeng, GJ Cheon - Nuclear medicine and molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Radiomics is a medical imaging analysis approach based on computer-vision. Metabolic
radiomics in particular analyses the spatial distribution patterns of molecular metabolism on …

Joint segmentation of anatomical and functional images: Applications in quantification of lesions from PET, PET-CT, MRI-PET, and MRI-PET-CT images

U Bagci, JK Udupa, N Mendhiratta, B Foster, Z Xu… - Medical image …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a novel method for the joint segmentation of anatomical and functional images.
Our proposed methodology unifies the domains of anatomical and functional images …

Optimal co-segmentation of tumor in PET-CT images with context information

Q Song, J Bai, D Han, S Bhatia, W Sun… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
<? Pub Dtl=""?> Positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) images
have been widely used in clinical practice for radiotherapy treatment planning of the …

Segmentation of positron emission tomography images: some recommendations for target delineation in radiation oncology

JA Lee - Radiotherapy and oncology, 2010 - Elsevier
Positron emission tomography can be used in radiation oncology for the delineation of target
volumes in the treatment planning stage. Numerous publications deal with this topic and the …

Intraobserver and interobserver variability in GTV delineation on FDG-PET-CT images of head and neck cancers

SL Breen, J Publicover, S De Silva, G Pond… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Purpose: To determine if the addition of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
(FDG-PET) data changes primary site gross tumor volumes (GTVs) in head and neck …

TSPO PET with [18F]GE-180 sensitively detects focal neuroinflammation in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis

M Unterrainer, C Mahler, L Vomacka, S Lindner… - European journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose Expression of the translocator protein (TSPO) is upregulated in activated
macrophages/microglia and is considered to be a marker of neuroinflammation. We …