title: Quantitative radiology: applications to oncology.
abstract: Oncologists, clinician-scientists, and basic scientists collect computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and positron emission tomography images in the process of caring for patients, managing clinical trials, and investigating cancer biology. As we have developed more sophisticated means for noninvasively delineating and characterizing neoplasms, these image data have come to play a central role in oncology. In parallel, the increasing complexity and volume of these data have necessitated the development of quantitative methods for assessing tumor burden, and by proxy, disease-free survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: ehh@ieee.org.
authors.forename: Edward H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Herskovits
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018787:Radiation Oncology
keywords: CT; Data mining; Image registration; Image segmentation; MR; Molecular imaging; Oncology; Quantitative radiology