Journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Jan 22, 2024
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE S: Due to manual OAR contouring challenges, various automatic contouring solutions have been introduced. Historically, common clinical auto-segmentation algorithms used were atlas-based, which required maintaining a library of self-...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Dec 19, 2023
PURPOSE: Accurate and comprehensive segmentation of cardiac substructures is crucial for minimizing the risk of radiation-induced heart disease in lung cancer radiotherapy. We sought to develop and validate deep learning-based auto-segmentation model...
Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists
Dec 6, 2023
Manual delineation of organs at risk and clinical target volumes is essential in radiotherapy planning. Atlas-based auto-segmentation (ABAS) algorithms have become available and been shown to provide accurate contouring for various anatomical sites. ...
. Automated treatment planning today is focussed on non-exact, two-step procedures. Firstly, dose-volume histograms (DVHs) or 3D dose distributions are predicted from the patient anatomy. Secondly, these are converted in multi-leaf collimator (MLC) a...
PURPOSE: To quantify interobserver variation (IOV) in target volume and organs-at-risk (OAR) contouring across 31 institutions in breast cancer cases and to explore the clinical utility of deep learning (DL)-based auto-contouring in reducing potentia...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 9, 2023
Quality of organ at risk (OAR) autosegmentation is often judged by concordance metrics against the human-generated gold standard. However, the ultimate goal is the ability to use unedited autosegmented OARs in treatment planning, while maintaining th...
BACKGROUND: The performance of deep learning segmentation (DLS) models for automatic organ extraction from CT images in the thorax and breast regions was investigated. Furthermore, the readiness and feasibility of integrating DLS into clinical practi...
PURPOSE: The contouring of organs at risk (OARs) in head and neck cancer radiation treatment planning is a crucial, yet repetitive and time-consuming process. Recent studies have applied deep learning (DL) algorithms to automatically contour head and...
BACKGROUND: Inaccurate manual organ delineation is one of the high-risk failure modes in radiation treatment. Numerous automated contour quality assurance (QA) systems have been developed to assess contour acceptability; however, manual inspection of...
BACKGROUND: Automatic solutions for generating radiotherapy treatment plans using deep learning (DL) have been investigated by mimicking the voxel's dose. However, plan optimization using voxel-dose features has not been extensively studied.
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