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Auto – Segmentation
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Image content or greyscale method
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Appropriate for very high or low contrast structures
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Segmentation without prior knowledge
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Widely available (e.g. flood fill, spindle snake)
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“Common errors include…using the auto-threshold contouring tools in the
TPS and not editing the resulting errors”
(Gay et al., 2012)
Whitfield G et al., Automated delineation of radiotherapy volumes:
are we going in the right direction? BJR. 2013 86(1021): 20110718