Computer-aided Detection of Pulmonary Nodules using Genetic Programming
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This document describes a study that used genetic programming to develop an accurate classifier for detecting pulmonary nodules on CT scans. The proposed method involved segmenting the lungs, detecting nodule candidates, extracting features, and using genetic programming to evolve a combination of features and functions to classify nodules versus non-nodules. When tested on 153 nodules across 32 CT scans, the genetic programming classifier achieved a sensitivity of 92% and specificity of 86%.
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Purpose: Normal lung CT texture features have been used for the prediction of radiation-induced lung disease (RILD) - pneumonitis and fibrosis. For these features to be clinically useful, they should be robust (relatively invariant or unbiased) to tumor size variations and not correlated (non-redundant) with the normal lung volume of interest, i.e., volume of the peri-tumoral region.
Methods: CT images of 14 lung cancer patients were studied. Different sizes of gross tumor volumes (GTVs) were simulated with spheres (diameters 10 to 60 mm) and placed in the lung contralateral to the tumor. 27 texture features [nine from intensity histogram, eight from the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and ten from the gray-level run-length matrix (GLRM)] were extracted from the peri-tumoral region (uniform 30 mm expansion around the GTV in the lung). The Bland-Altman analysis was applied to measure the normalized range of agreement (nRoA) for each feature when GTV size varied. A feature was considered as robust when its nRoA was less than the threshold (100%), which was chosen at the nRoA of the volume of the peri-tumoral region with modification based on the cumulative graph of features vs. nRoA. A feature was regarded as not correlated with the volume of the peri-tumoral region when their correlation was lower than 0.70.
Results: 16 of the 27 texture features were identified as robust. All intensity histogram features were robust except sum and kurtosis. All GLCM features were robust except cluster shade, cluster prominence, and Haralick's Correlation. Five GLRM features (two run emphasis and three high gray-level emphasis) were robust while the other five (two nonuniformity and three low gray-level emphasis) were unrobost. None of the robust features was correlated with the volume of the peri-tumoral region. No feature showed statistically significant differences (P<0.05) on GTV location (upper vs. lower lobe).
Conclusion: We identified 16 robust normal lung CT texture features that can be further examined for the prediction of RILD. Particularly, GLRM high gray-level emphasis features were robust and characterized the radiologic manifestations of pulmonary abnormalities.
Radiomics and Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Screening
The document summarizes research on using radiomics and deep learning approaches for lung cancer screening. It describes:
1) Using radiomic features like shape, texture, and intensity from lung nodules on CT scans and an SVM-LASSO model to classify nodules with 87.9% sensitivity and 78.2% specificity, outperforming the Lung-RADS system.
2) A deep learning model developed for a Kaggle competition that achieved 67.4% accuracy on nodule classification but only ranked 99th due to overfitting issues without enough data.
3) Future work could integrate quantification of nodule characteristics like spiculation with plasma biomarkers to improve diagnostic accuracy.
Lung Nodule detection System
Image segmentation is still an active reason of research, a relevant research area
in computer vision and hundreds of image segmentation techniques have been proposed by
the researchers. All proposed techniques have their own usability and accuracy. In this paper
we are going present a review of some best lung nodule existing detection and segmentation
techniques. Finally, we conclude by focusing one of the best methods that may have high
level accuracy and can be used in detection of lung very small nodules accurately.
Robust Normal Lung CT Texture Features for the Prediction of Radiation-Induce...
Abstract
Purpose/Objective(s)
Normal lung CT texture features have been used for the prediction of radiation-induced lung disease (RILD) - pneumonitis and fibrosis. For these features to be clinically useful, they need to be relatively invariant (robust) to tumor size and not correlated with normal lung volume.
Materials/Methods
The free-breathing CTs of 14 lung SBRT patients were studied. Different sizes of GTVs were simulated with spheres (diameters 10 to 60 mm) placed in the lung contralateral to the tumor. Twenty-seven texture features (9 from intensity histogram, 8 from the gray-level co-occurrence matrix [GLCM], and 10 from the gray-level run-length matrix [GLRM]) were extracted from [lung – GTV]. The Bland-Altman method was applied to measure the normalized range of agreement (nRoA) of each texture feature when GTV size varied. A feature was considered as robust when its nRoA was less than that of [lung – GTV] volume (8.8%) and regarded as not correlated when their absolute correlation coefficient was lower than 0.70.
Results
Eighteen texture features were identified as robust. All intensity histogram features were robust except sum and kurtosis. All GLCM features were robust except energy and Haralick's Correlation. Five GLRM features (two run emphasis and three high gray-level emphasis) were robust while the other five (two nonuniformity and three low gray-level emphasis) were nonrobust. Particularly, all three low gray-level emphasis features had extremely large nRoAs (∼30%), indicating huge variations when GTV size changed. None of the robust features was correlated with the normal lung [lung – GTV] volume, suggesting that they can provide additional information. Three nonrobust features (sum and two nonuniformity features) were highly correlated with the normal lung volume. None feature showed statistically significant differences (P < 0.05) with respect to GTV location (upper vs. lower lobe).
Conclusion
We identified 18 robust lung CT texture features which were invariant to varying tumor volumes. Particularly the three GLRM high gray-level emphasis features can characterize the radiologic manifestations of pulmonary abnormalities. Hence these features can be further examined for the prediction of the RILD.
Aggressive Lung Adenocarcinoma Subtype Prediction Using FDG-PET/CT Radiomics
Purpose: To predict the histopathologic subtypes with poor surgery prognosis in early stage lung adenocarcinomas using CT and PET radiomics.
Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 53 patients with stage I lung adenocarcinoma who underwent both diagnostic CT and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT before complete surgical resection of the tumors. Tumor segmentation was manually contoured by a physician on both the diagnostic CT and the attenuation CT of PET/CT.A total of 170 radiomics features were extracted on both PET and CT images to design predictive models for two histopathologic endpoints: (1) tumors with solid or micropapillary predominant subtype (aggressiveness), and (2) tumors with micropapillary component more than 5% (MIP5). We used least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) as a model building method coupled with a class separability feature selection (CSFS) method. For an unbiased model estimate, a 10-fold cross validation approach was used. The area under the curve (AUC) and prediction accuracy were employed to evaluate the performance of the model. P-values were computed using Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
Results: Of the 53 patients, 9 and 15 had tumors with aggressiveness and MIP5, respectively. For both endpoints, LASSO models with two PET radiomics features achieved the best performance. For aggressiveness, the LASSO model with PET Cluster Shade and PET 2D Variance resulted in 77.6±2.3% accuracy and 0.71±0.02 AUC (P = 0.011). For MIP5, the LASSO model with PET Eccentricity and PET Cluster Shade resulted in 69.6±3.1% accuracy and 0.68±0.04 AUC (P=0.014). The PET Cluster Shade was commonly selected in both models. Cluster shade is a texture feature that measures the skewness of the co-occurrence matrix. Higher PET cluster shade predicted that the tumor was more aggressive and more likely MIP5.
Conclusion: We showed that PET/CT radiomics features can predict tumor aggressiveness.
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: This work was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute Grants R01CA172638.
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Purpose: To predict the histopathologic subtypes with poor surgery prognosis in early stage lung adenocarcinomas using CT and PET radiomics.
Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 53 patients with stage I lung adenocarcinoma who underwent both diagnostic CT and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT before complete surgical resection of the tumors. Tumor segmentation was manually contoured by a physician on both the diagnostic CT and the attenuation CT of PET/CT.A total of 170 radiomics features were extracted on both PET and CT images to design predictive models for two histopathologic endpoints: (1) tumors with solid or micropapillary predominant subtype (aggressiveness), and (2) tumors with micropapillary component more than 5% (MIP5). We used least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) as a model building method coupled with a class separability feature selection (CSFS) method. For an unbiased model estimate, a 10-fold cross validation approach was used. The area under the curve (AUC) and prediction accuracy were employed to evaluate the performance of the model. P-values were computed using Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
Results: Of the 53 patients, 9 and 15 had tumors with aggressiveness and MIP5, respectively. For both endpoints, LASSO models with two PET radiomics features achieved the best performance. For aggressiveness, the LASSO model with PET Cluster Shade and PET 2D Variance resulted in 77.6±2.3% accuracy and 0.71±0.02 AUC (P = 0.011). For MIP5, the LASSO model with PET Eccentricity and PET Cluster Shade resulted in 69.6±3.1% accuracy and 0.68±0.04 AUC (P=0.014). The PET Cluster Shade was commonly selected in both models. Cluster shade is a texture feature that measures the skewness of the co-occurrence matrix. Higher PET cluster shade predicted that the tumor was more aggressive and more likely MIP5.
Conclusion: We showed that PET/CT radiomics features can predict tumor aggressiveness.
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: This work was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute Grants R01CA172638.
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TUMOR DETECTION TECHNIQUES
Automatic segmentation of tumor plays a vital role in diagnosis and surgical planning. This paper deals
with techniques which providing solution for detecting hepatic tumor in Computed Tomography (CT)
images. The main aim of this work is to analyze performance of tumor detection techniques like Knowledge
Based Constraints, Graph Cut Method and Gradient Vector Flow active contour. These three techniques
are computed using sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. From the evaluated result, knowledge based
constraints method is better than other graph cut method and gradient vector flow active contour.
Lung Nodule Segmentation in CT Images using Rotation Invariant Local Binary P...
As the lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer
death in the medical field, Computed Tomography (CT) scan
of the thorax is widely applied in diagnoses for identifying
the lung cancer. In this paper, a technique of rotation invariant
with Local Binary Pattern (LBP) for segmentation of various
lung nodules from the Lung CT cancer data sets is used. This
is tested on various lung data sets from teaching files of
Casimage database and National Cancer Institute (NCI) of
National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA). The results
show the segmented nodules with clear boundaries, which is
helpful in diagnosis of lung cancer. Further, the results are
compared with the watershed segmentation method, which
shows that LBP based method yields better segmentation
accuracy.
Automatic detection of lung cancer in ct images
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LIVER CANCER DETECTION USING CT/(MRI) IMAGES
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Medical imaging is the fundamental tool in conformal radiation therapy. Almost every aspect of patient management involves some form of two or three dimensional image data acquired using one or more modality.
Image data are now used for diagnosis and staging, for treatment planning and delivery and for monitoring patients after therapy.
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The document summarizes the key steps in conventional and CT simulation procedures for radiation therapy treatment planning. These include diagnosis and staging of the cancer, therapeutic decisions, patient simulation using fluoroscopy or CT scanning for positioning and immobilization, treatment planning to identify target volumes and organs at risk, treatment delivery and monitoring, and patient follow-up. CT simulation allows for better visualization of anatomy and automatic contouring compared to conventional simulation. Both methods require accurate documentation of the simulation process.
Multi modality medical image registration
Medical image fusion combines information from different imaging modalities like PET, CT, MRI into a single image. It has revolutionized medical diagnosis in various areas like oncology, brain imaging, and cardiology. Hybrid imaging using external markers or software registration are common fusion approaches. PET/CT fusion provides improved anatomical localization and cancer staging by combining metabolic PET information with anatomical CT data. New applications of fusion include image-guided interventions using ultrasound and CT fusion.
Technical Advances in radiotherapy for Lung (and liver) Cancer
This document summarizes recent technical advances in radiotherapy for lung and liver cancer, including: 4DCT imaging to account for tumor motion; motion management techniques like gating and breath-holding; intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) to improve dose conformity; image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to reduce margins and enable adaptations; and proton therapy which may further reduce normal tissue dose due to its physical properties, though proton techniques are still evolving to address motion and anatomical changes. The document outlines the benefits and challenges of each technique through examples and studies.
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This document describes the implementation of an MRI simulator at Liverpool Hospital for radiotherapy planning. Key points:
- An MRI simulator was installed in June 2013 to allow MRI-based radiotherapy planning for common cancer sites like head and neck, cervix, prostate, rectum, and brain.
- Dedicated protocols were developed with input from tumor-specific groups to optimize visualization of tumors, lymph nodes, and normal tissues.
- Over 200 patients have been simulated on the MRI simulator from August 2013 to June 2014 for various cancer sites.
- The MRI simulator allows improved delineation of targets and organs-at-risk compared to CT and can provide functional imaging data to guide treatment planning.
Current and emerging partnerships in imaging and radiotherapy by musila mutala
This document discusses the role of imaging in radiotherapy and outlines several key points:
1. Imaging has evolved from basic x-rays to cross-sectional imaging like CT and MRI to better define tumor volumes and organs at risk.
2. Modern radiotherapy relies on accurate tumor delineation using imaging for treatment planning, simulation, delivery, verification and monitoring.
3. Emerging technologies like PET and functional MRI provide complementary anatomical and biological information that can further improve radiotherapy outcomes.
4. Greater collaboration between radiology and radiation oncology departments, including dedicated imaging units and personnel, can help maximize the benefits of modern imaging for radiotherapy.
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Purpose: Traditional methods of evaluating cardiotoxicity rely on cardiac radiation doses and do not incorporate functional imaging. Cardiac functional imaging can improve the ability to provide early prediction for clinical outcomes for lung cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. FDG-based PET/CT imaging is routinely obtained for staging and disease assessment after treatment. Although FDG PET/CT scans are typically used to evaluate the tumor, studies have shown that the PET cardiac signal is predictive of clinical outcomes. Our study aimed to develop novel functional cardiac delta radiomics using pre and post-treatment FDG PET/CT scans to predict for overall survival (OS).
Methods: We conducted a study of 109 lung cancer patients who underwent standard FDG-PET/CT scans pre- and post-radiotherapy. Data from ACRIN 6668 (N=70) and an investigator-initiated lung cancer trial (N=39) for functional avoidance radiotherapy were used. The heart was delineated, and 200 cardiac CT and PET functional radiomics features were selected. Delta radiomics was calculated as the change between pre- and post-PET/CT. The data were divided into 80%/20% training/test set, and feature reduction was performed using Wilcoxon test, hierarchical clustering, and recursive feature elimination. A Gradient Boosting Classifier machine learning model evaluated the ability of the delta PET/CT cardiac radiomics to predict for OS using 10-fold cross-validation for training and area-under-the-curve (AUC) for model assessment.
Results: Median survival was 431 days (range 144 to 1640 days). 4 clinically relevant delta features were identified: pre-CT_Maximum, post-CT_Minimum, delta-CT_GLRM_Run_Variance, delta-PET_GLRM_Run_Entropy. The model showed an AUC of 0.91 on the training set and an AUC of 0.87 on the test set.
Conclusion: This is the first study to evaluate functional cardiac delta radiomic features from standard PET/CT scans with data showing good predictive AUC for OS. If validated, this work provides automated methods to provide functional cardiac information for clinical outcome prediction in lung cancer patients.
Interpretable Spiculation Quantification for Lung Cancer Screening
Spiculations are spikes on the surface of pulmonary nodule and are important predictors of malignancy in lung cancer. In this work, we introduced an interpretable, parameter-free technique for quantifying this critical feature using the area distortion metric from the spherical conformal (angle-preserving) parameterization. The conformal factor in the spherical mapping formulation provides a direct measure of spiculation which can be used to detect spikes and compute spike heights for geometrically-complex spiculations. The use of the area distortion metric from conformal mapping has never been exploited before in this context. Based on the area distortion metric and the spiculation height, we introduced a novel spiculation score. A combination of our spiculation measures was found to be highly correlated (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient ρ = 0.48) with the radiologist's spiculation score. These measures were also used in the radiomics framework to achieve state-of-the-art malignancy prediction accuracy of 88.9% on a publicly available dataset.
DISTANT-CTO: A Zero Cost, Distantly Supervised Approach to Improve Low-Resour...
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Manually identifying PICO information is the most time-consuming step for conducting systematic reviews (SR) which is already a labor-intensive process.
A lack of diversified and large, annotated corpora restricts innovation and adoption of automated PICO recognition systems.
The largest-available PICO entity/span corpus is manually annotated which is too expensive for a majority of the scientific community.
To break through the bottleneck, we propose DISTANT-CTO, a novel distantly supervised PICO entity extraction approach using the clinical trials literature, to generate a massive weakly-labeled dataset with more than a million ``Intervention'' and ``Comparator'' entity annotations.
We train distant NER (named-entity recognition) models using this weakly-labeled dataset and demonstrate that it outperforms even the sophisticated models trained on the manually annotated dataset with a 2\% F1 improvement over the Intervention entity of the PICO benchmark and more than 5\% improvement when combined with the manually annotated dataset.
We investigate the generalizability of our approach and gain an impressive F1 score on another domain-specific PICO benchmark.
The approach is not only zero-cost but is also scalable for a constant stream of PICO entity annotations.Lung nodule diagnosis from CT images based on ensemble learning
Early detection of cancer is the most promising way to enhance a patient's chance for survival. This paper presents a computer-aided classification method using computed tomography (CT) images of the lung based on ensemble of three classifiers including MLP, KNN and SVM. In this study, the entire lung is first segmented from the CT images and specific features like Roundness, Circularity, Compactness, Ellipticity, and Eccentricity are calculated from the segmented images. These morphological features are used for classification process in a way that each classifier makes its own decision. Finally, majority voting method is used to combine decisions of this ensemble system. The performance of this system is evaluated using 60 CT scans collected by Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) and the results show good improvement in diagnosing of pulmonary nodules.
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Image Guided Radiotherapy
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Cervical Spine Range of Motion Measurement Utilizing Image Analysis - VISAPP2022
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Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology
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Quantitative Image Analysis for Cancer Diagnosis and Radiation Therapy
1.Lung Cancer Screening
1.1.Deep learning (feasible but not interpretable)
1.2.Radiomics (concise model)
1.3.Spiculation quantification (interpretable feature)
2.PET/CT Tumor Response
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2.2.Pathologic response prediction (accurate but not concise)
2.3.Local tumor morphological changes (accurate and interpretable)
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Introduction to compressed sensing MRI
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Morphometry involves obtaining quantitative information about biological tissue structures through measurements of their size, shape, and other metrics. It provides objective criteria that can improve reproducibility in histopathology. Key applications include tumor classification, diagnostic accuracy, and distinguishing conditions like hyperplasia vs carcinoma. Techniques include planimetry, point counting, pixel counting in digital images. Morphometry of features like nuclear size and shape correlates with biological behaviors and can aid diagnosis of conditions like endometrial hyperplasia vs cancer or malignant mesothelioma. Next-generation techniques continue advancing this quantitative approach.
Novel Functional Radiomics for Prediction of Cardiac PET Avidity in Lung Canc...
Purpose/Objective(s)
Traditional methods of evaluating cardiotoxicity focus solely on radiation doses to the heart and do not incorporate functional imaging information. Functional imaging has great potential to improve the ability to provide early prediction for cardiotoxicity for lung cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. FDG-based PET/CT imaging is routinely obtained as part of standard staging work up for lung cancer patients. Although FDG PET/CT scans are typically used to evaluate the tumor, imaging guidelines note that FDG PET/CT scans are an FDA-approved method to image for cardiac inflammation, and studies have noted that the PET cardiac signal can be predictive of clinical outcomes. The purpose of this work was to develop a radiomics model to predict clinical cardiac assessment of standard of care FDG PET/CT scans.
Materials/Methods
The study included 100 consecutive lung cancer patients treated with radiotherapy who underwent standard pre-treatment FDG-PET/CT staging scans. A clinician reviewed the PET/CT scans per clinical cardiac assessment guidelines and classified the cardiac uptake as: 0 = uniform diffuse, 1 = absent, 2 = heterogeneous, with event rates of 20%, 44%, and 35%, respectively. The heart was delineated and 200 novel functional radiomics features were selected to classify cardiac FDG uptake patterns. We divided the data into an 80% training set and a 20% test set to train and evaluate the classification models. Feature reduction was carried out using the Wilcoxon test (with Bonferroni adjusted p<0.05), hierarchical clustering, and Recursive Feature Elimination. Two automatic machine learning (AutoML) frameworks were used to determine classification models: a Random Forest Classifier (Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool, TPOT) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (AutoSklearn). 10-fold cross validation was carried out for training and the accuracy of the ability of the models to predict for clinical cardiac assessment is reported.
Results
Fifty-one independent radiomics features were reduced to 3 clinically pertinent features (PET 2D Skewness, PET Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix Correlation, and PET Median) using feature reduction techniques. The model selected by TPOT showed 89.8% predictive accuracy in the cross validation of the training set and 85% predictive accuracy on the test set. The model selected by AutoSklearn showed 89.7% predictive accuracy in the cross validation of the training set and 80% predictive accuracy on the test set.
Conclusion
The novelty of this work is that it is the first study to develop and evaluate functional cardiac radiomic features from standard of care FDG PET/CT scans with the data showing good predictive accuracy with clinical imaging evaluation. If validated, the current work provides automated methods to provide functional cardiac information using standard of care imaging that can be used as an imaging biomarker for early clinical toxicity prediction for lung cancer patients.
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Purpose/Objective(s)
MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART) improves target coverage and organ-at-risk (OAR) sparing in pancreatic cancer radiation therapy (RT). Inter-fractional changes in patients undergoing RT require time intensive re-delineation of gross tumor volume (GTV) and OARs prior to adaptive optimization. Accurate automatic segmentation has the potential to significantly improve efficiency of the adaptive workflow. We hypothesized that state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) segmentation models could adequately segment GTV and OARs in both planning and daily fractional MR scans.
Materials/Methods
The study included 21 patients with pancreatic cancer treated with MRgART (10 Gy x 5 fractions). The planning MR as well as all daily MR images and registrations were collected (6 image sets per patient and a total of 126 image sets). The planning MR and fraction 1-4 image sets were used as the training set (N = 105), while the test set (N = 21) comprised images for fraction 5, to simulate the last step of incremental learning from planning to final fraction. Evaluated contours included the GTV, Small Bowel, Large Bowel, Duodenum, Left and Right Kidney, Liver, Spinal Cord, and Stomach. To mimic clinical conditions, contour accuracy was evaluated within the ring structure surrounding the PTV, inside of which daily adaptive re-contouring is applied (2 cm expansion in the cradio-caudal direction, 3 cm expansion otherwise). We evaluated three DL model architectures: SegResNet, SegResNet 2D, and SwinUNETR to autosegment GTV and OARs. The segmentation models were trained on the training set using 5-fold cross-validation (CV) and quantitatively analyzed by comparing against clinically used contours with DICE scores. Qualitative analysis was performed by a radiation oncologist using a scoring scale: 1 = perfect, 2 = minor discrepancy, 3 = moderate discrepancy, and 4 = rejected.
Results
Overall, the DL segmentations were in acceptable agreement with clinical contours. The best performing model was the SwinUNETR model with overall training DICE = 0.88±0.06, test DICE = 0.78±0.11, and qualitative score of 1.6±0.8. The agreement between the DL model and clinical segmentation for the GTV was 0.79±0.08, with a qualitative score of 2.2±0.9
Conclusion
We report here the most comprehensive work on DL segmentation for pancreatic cancer MRgART, including quantitative and clinically-pertinent qualitative evaluations of 126 image sets and 3 DL architectures. Our data show good quantitative agreement between DL and clinical contours, and acceptable clinician evaluations for the majority of GTVs and OARs. The current work has great potential to significantly reduce a major bottleneck in the MRgART workflow for pancreatic cancer patients.
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Undergraduate research.
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Assessing the Dosimetric Links between Organ-At-Risk Delineation Variability ...
Purpose: To determine the relative dosimetric impact of delineation variability (DV) when inter-observer and inter-technique planning variability (PV), and setup variability (SV) with are considered.
Methods: 409 plans for a single head-and-neck patient from the 2017 Radiation Knowledge plan competition were used. Plans were created with Eclipse (N=227), Pinnacle (N=49), RayStation (N=25), Monaco (N=75), and TomoTherapy (N=33) with delivery techniques conventional linac IMRT (N=142), volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT, N=234), and helical TomoTherapy (N=33). All plans were optimized using a consistent set of target volumes and a single OAR structure set. Four additional OAR structure sets were contoured by radiation oncologists (N=2) and medical physics residents (N=2) who had completed head-and-neck contouring training. Probabilistic DVHs, dose-volume coverage maps (DVCM), which shows the probability of achieving a dose metric, were computed for each OAR on the following scenarios: SV alone (N=1000), SV+PV (N=1000*409), SV+DV (N=1000*5), SV+PV+DV (total variability [TV], N=1000*409*5). Analysis focused on the probability of exceeding the maximum dose constraint exceeded 5% for each OAR.
Results: The primary source of variability was PV, which was expected due to inter-observer planning abilities and preferences during the optimization planning process, even when all participants utilized the same constraints. The parotid had the most significant interquartile range (IQR) on the PV scenario. Conversely, adding SV, DV, and TV each reduced the IQR, showing a washing out effect on the DVCM.
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- Realistic Variability Simulation
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- Spiculation Quantification
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methods: an average surface of standard deviation (ASSD) method, GrowCut segmentation, and a random walker (RW) segmentation. Each OAR AD was repeated five times with a different seed or variability level. Dice and HD were computed for each OAR AD with respect to the STAPLE SS. Dosimetric analysis was achieved by intercomparing dose-volume histograms (DVH) from a plan developed with a reference MD SS with DVHs for each MD and AD. DVH confidence bands are reported for MD and each AD method.
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