A review of feature selection methods in medical applications

B Remeseiro, V Bolon-Canedo - Computers in biology and medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Feature selection is a preprocessing technique that identifies the key features of a given
problem. It has traditionally been applied in a wide range of problems that include biological …

Multi-atlas segmentation of biomedical images: a survey

JE Iglesias, MR Sabuncu - Medical image analysis, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Multi-atlas segmentation (MAS), first introduced and popularized by the pioneering
work of Rohlfing, et al.(2004), Klein, et al.(2005), and Heckemann, et al.(2006), is becoming …

[HTML][HTML] Clinically applicable segmentation of head and neck anatomy for radiotherapy: deep learning algorithm development and validation study

S Nikolov, S Blackwell, A Zverovitch, R Mendes… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background: Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each
year globally. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires …

AnatomyNet: deep learning for fast and fully automated whole‐volume segmentation of head and neck anatomy

W Zhu, Y Huang, L Zeng, X Chen, Y Liu, Z Qian… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Radiation therapy (RT) is a common treatment option for head and neck (HaN)
cancer. An important step involved in RT planning is the delineation of organs‐at‐risks …

Segmentation of organs‐at‐risks in head and neck CT images using convolutional neural networks

B Ibragimov, L **ng - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Accurate segmentation of organs‐at‐risks (OAR s) is the key step for efficient
planning of radiation therapy for head and neck (HaN) cancer treatment. In the work, we …

Fully automatic multi‐organ segmentation for head and neck cancer radiotherapy using shape representation model constrained fully convolutional neural networks

N Tong, S Gou, S Yang, D Ruan, K Sheng - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is commonly employed for treating
head and neck (H&N) cancer with uniform tumor dose and conformal critical organ sparing …

A clinical evaluation of the performance of five commercial artificial intelligence contouring systems for radiotherapy

PJ Doolan, S Charalambous, Y Roussakis… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose/objective (s) Auto-segmentation with artificial intelligence (AI) offers an opportunity
to reduce inter-and intra-observer variability in contouring, to improve the quality of contours …

Evaluation of segmentation methods on head and neck CT: auto‐segmentation challenge 2015

PF Raudaschl, P Zaffino, GC Sharp… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Automated delineation of structures and organs is a key step in medical imaging.
However, due to the large number and diversity of structures and the large variety of …

Auto‐segmentation of organs at risk for head and neck radiotherapy planning: from atlas‐based to deep learning methods

T Vrtovec, D Močnik, P Strojan, F Pernuš… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the basic treatment modalities for cancer of the head and neck
(H&N), which requires a precise spatial description of the target volumes and organs at risk …

Clinically applicable deep learning framework for organs at risk delineation in CT images

H Tang, X Chen, Y Liu, Z Lu, J You, M Yang… - Nature Machine …, 2019 - nature.com
Radiation therapy is one of the most widely used therapies for cancer treatment. A critical
step in radiation therapy planning is to accurately delineate all organs at risk (OARs) to …