Digital Imaging

Research Results from J. Scharcanski and Co-Authors Update Knowledge of Digital Imaging

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 25th, 2011

2011 JAN 25 -- "This paper addresses the need to quantify tumor growth and detect changes as this information is relevant to manage the patient treatment and to aid biotechnological efforts to cure cancer (Silva et al. 2008). An interactive tumor segmentation technique is used to recover the shape and size of tumors without imposing shape constraints," scientists in Porto Alegre, Brazil report.

"This segmentation algorithm provides good convergence, is robust to the initialization conditions, and requires simple and intuitive user interactions. A parametric approach to model tumor growth analytically is proposed in this paper. The preliminary experimental...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-01-25)

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