Author : Kalyani C. S. 1
Date of Publication :7th May 2016
Abstract: Cancer has been one of the haunted conditions in the society though there have been treatment methods developed to cure. External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) is one such methods of cancer treatment. During the treatment plan phase, the organs at risk in the respective cancer context need to be segmented from acquired medical image. In this work, rectum is segmented from CT images and segmented rectum images are useful in the treatment plan. The work deals with the segmentation of rectum during EBRT plan for treatment of prostate cancer and image processing algorithm developed based on k-means clustering.
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