Validation of an automatic and iterative lesion segmentation method (AISM) for respiratory gated 18F-FDG PET based on realistic Monte-Carlo simulations

S Hapdey, S Vauclin, C Michel, K Doyeux, I Buvat… - 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
1441 Objectives In thoracic PET, due to respiratory motions, accurate lesion delineation is
difficult. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the AISM on GATE Monte …

Monte-Carlo simulations of clinically realistic respiratory gated 18F-FDG PET: Application to lesion detectability and volume measurements

S Vauclin, C Michel, I Buvat, K Doyeux… - Computer methods and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In PET/CT thoracic imaging, respiratory motion reduces image quality. A solution consists in
performing respiratory gated PET acquisitions. The aim of this study was to generate …

Feasibility of a semi-automated contrast-oriented algorithm for tumor segmentation in retrospectively gated PET images: phantom and clinical validation

M Carles, T Fechter, U Nemer, N Nanko… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
PET/CT plays an important role in radiotherapy planning for lung tumors. Several
segmentation algorithms have been proposed for PET tumor segmentation. However, most …

T-LMA, an automated tumor segmentation method of FDG PET images: Application to lung cancer

R Maroy, L Saint Christophe, S de Gavriloff, C Comtat… - 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
23 Objectives The aim of this work is to demonstrate the gain of an automated method for
tumor delineation of FDG-PET images as compared to Manual Delineation (MD) for lung …

Monte Carlo simulations of respiratory gated 18F-FDG PET for the assessment of volume measurement methods

S Vauclin, S Hapdey, C Michel… - 2008 IEEE Nuclear …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In PET/CT thoracic imaging, respiratory motion has been reported as a limiting factor
reducing image quality and biasing lesion volume measurement. One solution consists in …

An iterative technique for lesion segmentation in PET images

S Nehmeh, H El-Zeftawy, Y Erdi, R Schmidtlein, A Kirov… - 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
1410 Objectives: The need for an accurate lesion segmentation tool in 18FDG PET is a
prerequisite, to estimate lesion response to therapy, for radionuclide dosimetry, and for the …

3D Random walk based segmentation for delineation of heterogeneous positive tissues in PET imaging

DP Onoma, S Ruan, GA Monnehan, R Modzelewski… - 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
2283 Objectives Development of a PET segmentation method based on a random walk
(RW) algorithm to delineate 18 FDG heterogeneous positive tissues. Methods The RW …

Improved segmentation accuracy for thoracic PET-CT in patients with NSCLC using a multi-graph model (MGM)

H Cui, X Wang, J Zhou, S Eberl, D Feng, M Fulham - 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
2527 Objectives To develop an accurate segmentation method for primary lung tumors, in
particular when the tumor has heterogeneous uptake on PET and boundary is difficult to …

Evaluating the use of optimally respiratory gated 18F-FDG-PET in target volume delineation and its influence on radiation doses to the organs at risk in non-small-cell …

R Wijsman, W Grootjans, EG Troost… - Nuclear medicine …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective This radiotherapy planning study evaluated tumour delineation using both
optimally respiratory gated and nongated fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-PET (18 F-FDG …

Multi-modality adaptive region-growing for tumor segmentation in 18F-FDG PET/CT

S Tan, W Chen, H Li, W DSouza, W Lu - 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
259 Objectives To design a reliable method to determine the optimal parameter in the
adaptive region-growing (ARG) algorithm and to extend ARG to multi-modality algorithm for …