An Automatic Method for PET Delineation of Cervical Tumors

2015

Aim: PET imaging is increasingly utilized for radiation treatment planning. Nevertheless, accurate segmentation of PET images is a complex and unresolved problem. Aim of this work is the development of an automatic segmentation method of Biological Target Volume (BTV) in patients with cervical cancer. Materials and methods: Random walks (RW) is a graph-based method that represents a DICOM (Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine) image as a graph. The voxels are its nodes and the edges are defined by a cost function which maps a change in image intensity to edge weights. Then, RW partitions the nodes into target and background subsets. To create an automatic method starting from prev…