Description:
This
book provides complete descriptions of the techniques involved in
medical image processing, using sufficient descriptions and practical
references. Chapters cover topics of deformable registration,
segmentation, image reconstruction, and integration of these practices
into the radiation therapy environment. The four sections provide an
overview of the image segmentation and reconstruction techniques using
image processing across all modalities, and applications of these
approaches in radiation therapy. The book also addresses the
applications of registration, segmentation, and image reconstruction for
radiation therapy, including adaptive radiotherapy, monitoring and
tracking of treatment delivery, quantifying accuracy, and visualizing
results.
Features:
Offers a complete overview of image registration, segmentation, and
reconstruction techniques as well as their effectiveness and
applicability in a radiation therapy context
Covers underlying physics and image processing associated with the techniques
Includes critical evaluation of parametric and non-parametric image
registration techniques and their applications in radiation therapy
processes
Covers image segmentation techniques, from atlas-based to level set and registration-based techniques across modalities
Includes adaptive radiotherapy, monitoring and tracking of treatment delivery, quantifying accuracy, and visualizing results
Contains expert assessments on covered topics
Table of Contents:
IMAGE PROCESSING IN RADIOTHERAPY APPLICATIONS
Image Processing in Adaptive Radiotherapy; Dong
Online Monitoring, Tracking, and Dose Accumulation; Keall
Quantifying Accuracy of Segmentation and Registration; Balter
Visualization
REGISTRATION
Rigid and Affine Registration
Optimization Methods
Similarity Metrics; Kessler
Intensity Based Metrics (CC, MI, SSD, etc)
Contour Feature Based Metrics (points, contours, segments)
Parametric; Christensen
B-Spline
Thin Plate Spline
Elastic Body Spline
Non-Parametric, Elastic; AI-Maya and Brock
Linear Elastic
Viscoelastic
Hyperelastic
Navier-Stokes
Non-Parametric, Fluid Diffusion; He Wang
Viscous Fluid
Diffusion/Demon's Algorithm
SEGMENTATION
Computer-aided Manual Segmentation
Basic Segmentation (region growing, snakes, texture-based, multi-modal classifications, etc)
Atlas-based; Kaus
Level Set
Registration-based; Joshi
ADVANCED IMAGING TECHNIQUES
Advancements in Reconstruction (analytic/iterative)
Advancements in Respiration Sorting
In-room Imaging Techniques
Challenging Registration (2D to 3D, functional to anatomical images, surface to image, multi-modality); EI Naqa
Image Pre-processing (distortion, noise minimization, artifact reduction)
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