TY - GEN
T1 - A survey of cervix segmentation methods in magnetic resonance images
AU - Ghose, Soumya
AU - Holloway, Lois
AU - Lim, Karen
AU - Chan, Philip
AU - Veera, Jacqueline
AU - Vinod, Shalini K.
AU - Liney, Gary
AU - Greer, Peter B.
AU - Dowling, Jason
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - ![CDATA[Radiotherapy is an effective therapy in the treatment of cervix cancer. However tumor and normal tissue motion and shape deformation of the cervix, the bladder and the rectum over the course of the treatment can limit the efficacy of radiotherapy and safe delivery of the dose. A number of studies have presented the potential benefits of adaptive radiotherapy for cervix cancer with high soft tissue contrast magnetic resonance images. To enable practical implementation of adaptive radiotherapy for the cervix, computer aided segmentation is necessary. Accurate computer aided automatic or semi-automatic segmentation of the cervix is a challenging task due to inter patient shape variation, soft tissue deformation, organ motion, and anatomical changes during the course of the treatment. This article reviews the methods developed for cervix segmentation in magnetic resonance images. The objective of this work is to present different methods for cervix segmentation in the literature highlighting their similarities, differences, strengths and weaknesses.]]
AB - ![CDATA[Radiotherapy is an effective therapy in the treatment of cervix cancer. However tumor and normal tissue motion and shape deformation of the cervix, the bladder and the rectum over the course of the treatment can limit the efficacy of radiotherapy and safe delivery of the dose. A number of studies have presented the potential benefits of adaptive radiotherapy for cervix cancer with high soft tissue contrast magnetic resonance images. To enable practical implementation of adaptive radiotherapy for the cervix, computer aided segmentation is necessary. Accurate computer aided automatic or semi-automatic segmentation of the cervix is a challenging task due to inter patient shape variation, soft tissue deformation, organ motion, and anatomical changes during the course of the treatment. This article reviews the methods developed for cervix segmentation in magnetic resonance images. The objective of this work is to present different methods for cervix segmentation in the literature highlighting their similarities, differences, strengths and weaknesses.]]
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/544157
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-41083-3_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-41083-3_32
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9783642410826
SP - 290
EP - 298
BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Abdominal Imaging: Computation and Clinical Applications: Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 22, 2013
PB - Springer
T2 - International Workshop on Abdominal Imaging
Y2 - 22 September 2013
ER -