期刊
MEDICAL PHYSICS
卷 46, 期 1, 页码 286-292出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mp.13296
关键词
automated segmentation; CNN Cascades; deep learning; radiotherapy
资金
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) [U24CA180803, CA223358]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R21CA223358, U24CA180803] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Purpose Manual delineation of organs-at-risk (OARs) in radiotherapy is both time-consuming and subjective. Automated and more accurate segmentation is of the utmost importance in clinical application. The purpose of this study is to further improve the segmentation accuracy and efficiency with a novel network named convolutional neural networks (CNN) Cascades. Methods CNN Cascades was a two-step, coarse-to-fine approach that consisted of a simple region detector (SRD) and a fine segmentation unit (FSU). The SRD first used a relative shallow network to define the region of interest (ROI) where the organ was located, and then, the FSU took the smaller ROI as input and adopted a deep network for fine segmentation. The imaging data (14,651 slices) of 100 head-and-neck patients with segmentations were used for this study. The performance was compared with the state-of-the-art single CNN in terms of accuracy with metrics of Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and Hausdorff distance (HD) values. Results The proposed CNN Cascades outperformed the single CNN on accuracy for each OAR. Similarly, for the average of all OARs, it was also the best with mean DSC of 0.90 (SRD: 0.86, FSU: 0.87, and U-Net: 0.85) and the mean HD of 3.0 mm (SRD: 4.0, FSU: 3.6, and U-Net: 4.4). Meanwhile, the CNN Cascades reduced the mean segmentation time per patient by 48% (FSU) and 5% (U-Net), respectively. Conclusions The proposed two-step network demonstrated superior performance by reducing the input region. This potentially can be an effective segmentation method that provides accurate and consistent delineation with reduced clinician interventions for clinical applications as well as for quality assurance of a multicenter clinical trial.
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