@inproceedings{58cda79260d5463daaca08c33f18f22b,
title = "Brain lesion detection in 3D PET images using max-trees and a new spatial context criterion",
abstract = "In this work, we propose a new criterion based on spatial context to select relevant nodes in a max-tree representation of an image, dedicated to the detection of 3D brain tumors for 18F -FDG PET images. This criterion prevents the detected lesions from merging with surrounding physiological radiotracer uptake. A complete detection method based on this criterion is proposed, and was evaluated on five patients with brain metastases and tuberculosis, and quantitatively assessed using the true positive rates and positive predictive values. The experimental results show that the method detects all the lesions in the PET images.",
keywords = "Brain tumors, Detection, Max-tree representation, Positron emission tomography, Spatial context",
author = "H{\'e}l{\`e}ne Urien and Ir{\`e}ne Buvat and Nicolas Rougon and Micha{\"e}l Soussan and Isabelle Bloch",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.; 13th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, ISMM 2017 ; Conference date: 15-05-2017 Through 17-05-2017",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-57240-6\_37",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319572390",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "455--466",
editor = "Jesus Angulo and Santiago Velasco-Forero and Fernand Meyer",
booktitle = "Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing - 13th International Symposium, ISMM 2017, Proceedings",
}