Automatic detection and recognition of nasopharynx gross tumour volume (GTVnx) by deep learning for nasopharyngeal cancer radiotherapy through magnetic resonance imaging.

Journal: Radiation oncology (London, England)
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In this study, we propose the deep learning model-based framework to automatically delineate nasopharynx gross tumor volume (GTVnx) in MRI images.

Authors

  • Yandan Wang
    Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Wenzhou University, WenZhou, China.
  • Hehe Chen
    College of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wenzhou Polytechnic, Wenzhou, China.
  • Jie Lin
    Department of Reproductive Medicine, Zigong Hospital of Women and Children Health Care, Zigong, China.
  • Shi Dong
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, 466001, China.
  • Wenyi Zhang
    Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China.