Title
Evaluation of multi atlas-based approaches for the segmentation of the thyroid gland in IMRT head-and-neck CT images
Abstract
Segmenting the thyroid gland in head and neck CT images for IMRT treatment planning is of great importance. In this work, we evaluate and compare multi-atlas methods to segment this structure. The various methods we evaluate range from using a single average atlas representative of the population to selecting one atlas based on three similarity measures. We also compare ways to combine segmentation results obtained with several atlases, i.e., vote rule, and STAPLE, which is a commonly used method to combine multiple segmentations. We show that the best results are obtained when several atlases are combined. We also show that with our data sets, STAPLE does not lead to the best results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1117/12.878246
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
atlas-based segmentation,nonrigid registration,head and neck IMRT,thyroid gland
Conference
7962
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
4
0.46
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antong Chen165.94
Kenneth J. Niermann2222.48
matthew a deeley361.20
Benoit M. Dawant41388223.11