Synthetic CT generation for pelvic cases based on deep learning in multi-center datasets.

Journal: Radiation oncology (London, England)
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To investigate the feasibility of synthesizing computed tomography (CT) images from magnetic resonance (MR) images in multi-center datasets using generative adversarial networks (GANs) for rectal cancer MR-only radiotherapy.

Authors

  • Xianan Li
    Institute of Medical Intelligence, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis and Mining, School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.
  • Lecheng Jia
    Shenzhen United Imaging Research Institute of Innovative Medical Equipment, Shenzhen, China. lecheng.jia@cri-united-imaging.com.
  • Fengyu Lin
    YIWEI Medical Technology Co., Ltd, Room 1001, MAI KE LONG Building, Nanshan, ShenZhen, 518000, China.
  • Fan Chai
    Department of Radiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, 100044, China.
  • Tao Liu
    Institute of Urology and Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China.
  • Wei Zhang
    The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
  • Ziquan Wei
    Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
  • Weiqi Xiong
    Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd. Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
  • Hua Li
    Department of Stomatology, The First Medical Center Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing China.
  • Min Zhang
    Department of Infectious Disease, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.
  • Yi Wang
    Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.