Automatic detection of contouring errors using convolutional neural networks.

Journal: Medical physics
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To develop a head and neck normal structures autocontouring tool that could be used to automatically detect the errors in autocontours from a clinically validated autocontouring tool.

Authors

  • Dong Joo Rhee
  • Carlos E Cardenas
    Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: cecardenas@mdanderson.org.
  • Hesham Elhalawani
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Radiology, 601 N Caroline St, Room 4223, Baltimore, MD 21287 (S.K.); Cleveland Clinic, Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland, Ohio (H.E.); Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Atlanta, Georgia (J.G.); University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (C.E.K.).
  • Rachel McCarroll
    Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
  • Lifei Zhang
    Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
  • Jinzhong Yang
    Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
  • Adam S Garden
  • Christine B Peterson
    Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
  • Beth M Beadle
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
  • Laurence E Court
    Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.