A feasibility study of lung tumor segmentation on kilo-voltage radiographic images with transfer learning: Toward tumor motion tracking in radiotherapy.

Journal: Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To segment the lung tumor on kilo-voltage X-ray radiographic images acquired during treatment toward the markerless lung tumor tracking.

Authors

  • Jie Wei
    Department of Computer Science, City College of New York, New York, USA.
  • Jun Deng
    Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
  • Ming Chao
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.