Entry Elliott:1996:OSM from ibmsysj.bib

Last update: Thu Nov 27 02:08:39 MST 2008                Valid HTML 3.2!

Index sections

Top | Symbols | Math | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

BibTeX entry

@Article{Elliott:1996:OSM,
  author =       "P. J. Elliott and J. Diedrichsen and K. J. Goodson and
                 R. Riste-Smith and G. J. Sivewright",
  title =        "An object-oriented system for {3D} medical image
                 analysis",
  journal =      j-IBM-SYS-J,
  volume =       "35",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "4--24",
  year =         "1996",
  CODEN =        "IBMSA7",
  ISSN =         "0018-8670",
  bibdate =      "Wed Mar 20 10:10:14 MST 1996",
  URL =          "http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj35-1.html#two",
  abstract =     "As part of a European Commission-funded research
                 project on medical image analysis, we have developed a
                 system aimed at solving a real clinical problem: the
                 outlining of the target volume and organs at risk for
                 three-dimensional conformal radiation treatment
                 planning. The clinical requirement is to make this
                 process less tedious and time-consuming. We show how
                 object-oriented design techniques can be used to good
                 effect in a collaborative project such as this, so that
                 image segmentation and other algorithms from a number
                 of different partners in the consortium can be
                 integrated into one system, for comparative evaluation
                 by the clinical partners. We describe in some detail
                 two of these algorithms, one a straightforward region
                 and volume grower, in which particular attention has
                 been paid to adapting the user interface to suit
                 clinical needs, and the other an interactive tool using
                 b-spline surface patches for direct three-dimensional
                 segmentation. We report on the clinical feedback we
                 have received, which indicates that the most
                 technically advanced algorithms are not necessarily the
                 most useful from a clinician's point of view.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

Related entries