Estimation of the Midsagittal Plane for Sideness Determination of Malignant Structures of Head and Neck
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Date
2010
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Besides other main criterias like size, infiltration and anatomical district, the sideness of tumor and local metastases (i. e., malignant lymph nodes) is very crucial for head and neck tumor assessment. An automatic sideness determination may speed up tumor staging noticeably. Inspired by preliminary work of others we present a modified approach for the estimation of the midsagittal plane based on surface meshes. The suitability of the computed result being used in the course of TNM classification was tested in a case study, in terms of an according automatic determination of the sideness for segmented lymph nodes and tumors.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:VCBM/VCBM10/109-115,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine},
editor = {Dirk Bartz and Charl Botha and Joachim Hornegger and Raghu Machiraju and Alexander Wiebel and Bernhard Preim},
title = {{Estimation of the Midsagittal Plane for Sideness Determination of Malignant Structures of Head and Neck}},
author = {Rössling, Ivo and Hahn, Peter and Cyrus, Christian and Dornheim, Lars},
year = {2010},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2070-5786},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-28-6},
DOI = {10.2312/VCBM/VCBM10/109-115}
}