Disease Quantification on PET/CT Images without Explicit Object Delineation

It is now generally believed that quantitative radiology (QR), when brought to routine clinical practice, will bring about significant enhancement of the role of radiology in the medical milieu, potentially spawning numerous new advances in medicine. The derivation of quantitative information from images, however, continues to face a major image analysis hurdle, namely the identification and delineation of “objects” of interest in the image. The “object” may be an anatomic organ, a sub-organ, a tissue region, a pathological region, or an anatomic zone such as a well-defined lymph node station.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - November 10, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Yubing Tong, Jayaram K. Udupa, Dewey Odhner, Caiyun Wu, Stephen J. Schuster, Drew A. Torigian Source Type: research