Therapeutic utility of the tumor segmentation process, applied to PET-CT images [Utilidad terapéutica: Del proceso de segmentación tumoral, aplicado a imágenes de PET-CT]

In this work findings derived from the application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, in a patient with tumors, are identified. The tumors require of segmentation and quantification process before and after those therapies. In order to obtain the morphology of such tumors and their volumes, a computa...

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Autores: Siguencia Cruz, Wilson Marcelo, Torres Valdez, Maritza Auxiliadora
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad de Cuenca
Repositorio:Repositorio Universidad de Cuenca
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec:123456789/29194
Acceso en línea:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019156424&partnerID=40&md5=947701afde626c362ed344277fbe4e4b
http://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/handle/123456789/29194
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Chemotherapy
Global Similarity Enhancement
Non-Hodgkin’S Lymphoma
Pet-Ct
Radiotherapy
Region Growing
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Sumario:In this work findings derived from the application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, in a patient with tumors, are identified. The tumors require of segmentation and quantification process before and after those therapies. In order to obtain the morphology of such tumors and their volumes, a computational technique used in 3D images of positron emission tomography (PET) fused with computed tomography (CT), belonging to a pediatric patient diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), is proposed. The proposed technique is divided into two stages: pre-processing and segmentation. The pre-processing is based on the application of a filtering process based on global enhancement similarity (GSE) to raise the quality of the information in the images. For tumors segmentation a technique based on region growing is considered. The NHL volumes derived from segmentation, are useful for both clinical monitoring lymphoma and analysis of therapeutic procedure.