The Clinical Target Volume project

The Clinical Target Volume project has as its objective to create a knowledge based model of how tumors spread to regional lymph nodes and other locations from the primary tumor. It is a collaborative project of Radiation Oncologists, Otolaryngologists, and Computer Scientists.

Publications related to this project

• Kalet, I.J., Whipple, M., Pessah, S., Barker, J., Austin-Seymour, M.M., Shapiro, L.G. A Rule-based Model for Local and Regional Tumor Spread. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium, pp. 360--364, Isaac S. Kohane, ed., Hanley and Belfus, Inc., 2002. PDF
• Teng, C.C., Austin-Seymour, M.M., Barker, J., Kalet, I.J., Shapiro, L.G., Whipple, M. Head and Neck Lymph Node Region Delineation with 3-D CT Image Registration. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium, pp. 767--771, Isaac S. Kohane, ed., Hanley \& Belfus, Inc., 2002. PDF
• Teng, C.C., Shapiro, L.G., and Kalet, I.J. Head and Neck Lymph Node Region Delineation Using a Hybrid Image Registration Method. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2006, pp. 462-465, IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
• Teng, C.C., Shapiro, L.G., and Kalet, I.J. Automatic Segmentation of Neck CT images. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems, pp. 442-445, D.J. Lee, Brian Nutter, Sameer Antani, Sunanda Mitra, and James Archibald, Eds., IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
• Benson, N., Whipple, M. and Kalet, I.J. A Markov Model Approach to Predicting Regional Tumor Spread in the Lymphatic System of the Head and Neck, Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium, pp. 31--35, David W. Bates, John H. Holmes and Gilad Kuperman, Eds., American Medical Informatics Association, 2006. PDF
• Teng, C.C., Shapiro, L.G., and Kalet, I.J. Head and Neck Cancer Patient Similarity Base on Anatomical Structural Geometry. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI): From Nano to Macro, in press, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Society, 2007.