A prior-information-based automatic segmentation method for the clinical target volume in adaptive radiotherapy of cervical cancer.
J Appl Clin Med Phys
; 25(5): e14350, 2024 May.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Adaptive planning to accommodate anatomic changes during treatment often requires repeated segmentation. In this study, prior patient-specific data was integrateda into a registration-guided multi-channel multi-path (Rg-MCMP) segmentation framework to improve the accuracy of repeated clinical target volume (CTV) segmentation.METHODS:
This study was based on CT image datasets for a total of 90 cervical cancer patients who received two courses of radiotherapy. A total of 15 patients were selected randomly as the test set. In the Rg-MCMP segmentation framework, the first-course CT images (CT1) were registered to second-course CT images (CT2) to yield aligned CT images (aCT1), and the CTV in the first course (CTV1) was propagated to yield aligned CTV contours (aCTV1). Then, aCT1, aCTV1, and CT2 were combined as the inputs for 3D U-Net consisting of a channel-based multi-path feature extraction network. The performance of the Rg-MCMP segmentation framework was evaluated and compared with the single-channel single-path model (SCSP), the standalone registration methods, and the registration-guided multi-channel single-path (Rg-MCSP) model. The Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), 95% Hausdorff distance (HD95), and average surface distance (ASD) were used as the metrics.RESULTS:
The average DSC of CTV for the deformable image DIR-MCMP model was found to be 0.892, greater than that of the standalone DIR (0.856), SCSP (0.837), and DIR-MCSP (0.877), which were improvements of 4.2%, 6.6%, and 1.7%, respectively. Similarly, the rigid body DIR-MCMP model yielded an average DSC of 0.875, which exceeded standalone RB (0.787), SCSP (0.837), and registration-guided multi-channel single-path (0.848), which were improvements of 11.2%, 4.5%, and 3.2%, respectively. These improvements in DSC were statistically significant (p < 0.05).CONCLUSION:
The proposed Rg-MCMP framework achieved excellent accuracy in CTV segmentation as part of the adaptive radiotherapy workflow.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Radiotherapy Dosage
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Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
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Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Appl Clin Med Phys
Journal subject:
BIOFISICA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China
Country of publication:
United States