Computer-aided diagnosis and regional segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma based on multi-modality medical images

Y Qi, J Li, H Chen, Y Guo, Y Yin, G Gong… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a category of tumors with high incidence in
head-and-neck (H&N) body region, and the diagnosis and treatment planning are usually …

[HTML][HTML] Automated nasopharyngeal carcinoma segmentation in magnetic resonance images by combination of convolutional neural networks and graph cut

Z Ma, X Wu, Q Song, Y Luo… - Experimental and …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Accurate and reliable segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in medical images
is an import task for clinical applications, including radiotherapy. However, NPC features …

[HTML][HTML] Fully-automated segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma on dual-sequence MRI using convolutional neural networks

Y Ye, Z Cai, B Huang, Y He, P Zeng, G Zou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we proposed an automated method based on convolutional neural network
(CNN) for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) segmentation on dual-sequence magnetic …

Image segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma using 3D CNN with long-range skip connection and multi-scale feature pyramid

F Guo, C Shi, X Li, X Wu, J Zhou, J Lv - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common cancers of the nasopharynx.
A structural analysis of NPC can provide vital insights into methods of treatment. However …

Trainable model for segmenting and identifying Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

MA Mohammed, MK Abd Ghani, NA Arunkumar… - Computers & Electrical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a multifaceted cancer tumor that makes its diagnosis
challenging. NPC has a consistently diffusive enlargement that makes its resection …

Automatic segmentation and automatic seed point selection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma from microscopy images using region growing based approach

MA Mohammed, MK Abd Ghani, RI Hamed… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Context Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a type of cancer in the head and neck, and this
cancer presents in the throat region between the pharynx and nasal cavity. NPC is …

Region-based nasopharyngeal carcinoma lesion segmentation from MRI using clustering-and classification-based methods with learning

W Huang, KL Chan, J Zhou - Journal of digital imaging, 2013 - Springer
In clinical diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) lesion, clinicians are often
required to delineate boundaries of NPC on a number of tumor-bearing magnetic resonance …

Achieving accurate segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in mr images through recurrent attention

J Huang, E Zhuo, H Li, L Liu, H Cai, Y Ou - Medical Image Computing and …, 2019 - Springer
Automatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) segmentation in magnetic resonance (MR)
images remains challenging since NPC is infiltrative and typically has a small or even tiny …

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma segmentation based on enhanced convolutional neural networks using multi-modal metric learning

Z Ma, S Zhou, X Wu, H Zhang, W Yan… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-modality examinations have been extensively applied in current clinical cancer
management. Leveraging multi-modality medical images can be highly beneficial for …

Automatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma segmentation using fully convolutional networks with auxiliary paths on dual-modality PET-CT images

L Zhao, Z Lu, J Jiang, Y Zhou, Y Wu, Q Feng - Journal of digital imaging, 2019 - Springer
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is prevalent in certain areas, such as South China,
Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Radiation therapy is the most efficient means to treat …