A novel PET tumor delineation method based on adaptive region-growing and dual-front active contours.

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Published in Med Phys on August 01, 2008

Authors

Hua Li1, Wade L Thorstad, Kenneth J Biehl, Richard Laforest, Yi Su, Kooresh I Shoghi, Eric D Donnelly, Daniel A Low, Wei Lu

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.

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