Positron emission tomography image segmentation based on atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets
Fecha
2022Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.3390/app12104865
Resumen
In this paper, we present an approach to fully automate tumor delineation in positron emission tomography (PET) images. PET images play a major role in medicine for in vivo imaging in oncology (PET images are used to evaluate oncology patients, detecting emitted photons from a radiotracer localized in abnormal cells). PET image tumor delineation plays a vital role both in pre-and post-treatment s ...
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In this paper, we present an approach to fully automate tumor delineation in positron emission tomography (PET) images. PET images play a major role in medicine for in vivo imaging in oncology (PET images are used to evaluate oncology patients, detecting emitted photons from a radiotracer localized in abnormal cells). PET image tumor delineation plays a vital role both in pre-and post-treatment stages. The low spatial resolution and high noise characteristics of PET images increase the challenge in PET image segmentation. Despite the difficulties and known limitations, several image segmentation approaches have been proposed. This paper introduces a new unsupervised approach to perform tumor delineation in PET images using Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets (A-IFSs) and restricted dissimilarity functions. Moreover, the implementation of this methodology is presented and tested against other existing methodologies. The proposed algorithm increases the accuracy of tumor delineation in PET images, and the experimental results show that the proposed method outperformed all methods tested. [--]
Materias
AIFS-s,
PET image segmentation,
Tumor delineation
Editor
MDPI
Publicado en
Applied Sicences, 2022, 12 (10)
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Automática y Computación /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Automatika eta Konputazioa Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
This research was funded by by National Funds by FCT-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UIDB/04033/2020.