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Segmentation of Brain Metastases Using Background Layer Statistics (BLAST)

Chris Heyn, Alan R. Moody, Chia-Lin Tseng, Erin Wong, Tony Kang, Anish Kapadia, Peter Howard, Pejman Maralani, Sean Symons, Maged Goubran, Anne Martel, Hanbo Chen, Sten Myrehaug, Jay Detsky, Arjun Sahgal and Hany Soliman
American Journal of Neuroradiology October 2023, 44 (10) 1135-1143; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A7998
Chris Heyn
aFrom the Department of Medical Imaging (C.H., A.R.M., E.W., T.K., A.K., P.H., P.M., S.S.), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
bSunnybrook Research Institute (C.H., A.R.M., M.G., A.M.), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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aFrom the Department of Medical Imaging (C.H., A.R.M., E.W., T.K., A.K., P.H., P.M., S.S.), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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cDepartment of Radiation Oncology (C.-L.T., H.C., S.M., J.D., A.S., H.S.), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Maged Goubran
bSunnybrook Research Institute (C.H., A.R.M., M.G., A.M.), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
dDepartment of Medical Biophysics (M.G., A.M.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Anne Martel
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dDepartment of Medical Biophysics (M.G., A.M.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Chris Heyn, Alan R. Moody, Chia-Lin Tseng, Erin Wong, Tony Kang, Anish Kapadia, Peter Howard, Pejman Maralani, Sean Symons, Maged Goubran, Anne Martel, Hanbo Chen, Sten Myrehaug, Jay Detsky, Arjun Sahgal, Hany Soliman
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American Journal of Neuroradiology Oct 2023, 44 (10) 1135-1143; DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A7998

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