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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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Alan R. Moody
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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Chia-Lin Tseng
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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Erin Wong
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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Tony Kang
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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Anish Kapadia
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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Peter Howard
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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Pejman Maralani
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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Sean Symons
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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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
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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Hanbo Chen
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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Sten Myrehaug
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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Jay Detsky
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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Arjun Sahgal
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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Hany Soliman
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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