Multi-phase simultaneous segmentation of tumor in lung 4D-CT data with context information.

Lung 4D computed tomography (4D-CT) plays an important role in high-precision radiotherapy because it characterizes respiratory motion, which is crucial for accurate target definition. However, the manual segmentation of a lung tumor is a heavy workload for doctors because of the large number of lun...

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Main Authors: Zhengwen Shen, Huafeng Wang, Weiwen Xi, Xiaogang Deng, Jin Chen, Yu Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5473562?pdf=render