Advances in automatic delineation of target volume and cardiac substructure in breast cancer radiotherapy (Review)
- Authors:
- Jingjing Shen
- Peihua Gu
- Yun Wang
- Zhongming Wang
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Affiliations: School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200438, P.R. China, Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Shidong Hospital Affiliated to University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200438, P.R. China - Published online on: February 2, 2023 https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2023.13697
- Article Number: 110
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