Journal
PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aba410
Keywords
multi-needle localization; mask RCNN; DBSCAN algorithm; ultrasound images; US-guided HDR prostate brachytherapy; deep learning
Funding
- National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health [R01CA215718]
- Department of Defense (DoD) Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Award [W81XWH-17-1-0438, W81XWH-17-1-0439]
- Dunwoody Golf Club Prostate Cancer Research Award
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
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Multi-needle localization in ultrasound (US) images is a crucial step of treatment planning for US-guided prostate brachytherapy. However, current computer-aided technologies are mostly focused on single-needle digitization, while manual digitization is labor intensive and time consuming. In this paper, we proposed a deep learning-based workflow for fast automatic multi-needle digitization, including needle shaft detection and needle tip detection. The major workflow is composed of two components: a large margin mask R-CNN model (LMMask R-CNN), which adopts the lager margin loss to reformulate Mask R-CNN for needle shaft localization, and a needle based density-based spatial clustering of application with noise algorithm which integrates priors to model a needle in an iteration for a needle shaft refinement and tip detections. Besides, we use the skipping connection in neural network architecture to improve the supervision in hidden layers. Our workflow was evaluated on 23 patients who underwent US-guided high-dose-rate (HDR) prostrate brachytherapy with 339 needles being tested in total. Our method detected 98% of the needles with 0.091 +/- 0.043 mm shaft error and 0.330 +/- 0.363 mm tip error. Compared with only using Mask R-CNN and only using LMMask R-CNN, the proposed method gains a significant improvement on both shaft error and tip error. The proposed method automatically digitizes needles per patient with in a second. It streamlines the workflow of transrectal ultrasound-guided HDR prostate brachytherapy and paves the way for the development of real-time treatment planning system that is expected to further elevate the quality and outcome of HDR prostate brachytherapy.
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