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A dual deep neural network for auto-delineation in cervical cancer radiotherapy with clinical validation

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RADIATION ONCOLOGY
卷 17, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-022-02157-5

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Cervical cancer radiotherapy; Clinical target volume auto-segmentation; Organs-at-risk auto-segmentation; Artificial intelligence-assisted system

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  1. 1.3.5 project for disciplines of excellence, West China Hospital, Sichuan University [ZYJC18048]

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This study developed an AI-assisted system for automatic contouring of the clinical target volume (CTV) and organs-at-risk (OARs) in cervical cancer radiotherapy. The results showed that the proposed SegNet, trained with multi-group data, achieved better accuracy and quality in automatic CTV contouring compared to other methods. The use of the AI-assisted system can shorten the time required for manual contouring without compromising quality.
Background Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are capable of automatically detecting contouring boundaries in medical images. However, the algorithms impact on clinical practice of cervical cancer are unclear. We aimed to develop an AI-assisted system for automatic contouring of the clinical target volume (CTV) and organs-at-risk (OARs) in cervical cancer radiotherapy and conduct clinical-based observations. Methods We first retrospectively collected data of 203 patients with cervical cancer from West China Hospital. The proposed method named as SegNet was developed and trained with different data groups. Quantitative metrics and clinical-based grading were used to evaluate differences between several groups of automatic contours. Then, 20 additional cases were conducted to compare the workload and quality of AI-assisted contours with manual delineation from scratch. Results For automatic CTVs, the dice similarity coefficient (DSC) values of the SegNet trained with incorporating multi-group data achieved 0.85 +/- 0.02, which was statistically better than the DSC values of SegNet independently trained with the SegNet((A)) (0.82 +/- 0.04), SegNet((B)) (0.82 +/- 0.03) or SegNet((C)) (0.81 +/- 0.04). Moreover, the DSC values of the SegNet and UNet, respectively, 0.85 and 0.82 for the CTV (P < 0.001), 0.93 and 0.92 for the bladder (P = 0.44), 0.84 and 0.81 for the rectum (P = 0.02), 0.89 and 0.84 for the bowel bag (P < 0.001), 0.93 and 0.92 for the right femoral head (P = 0.17), and 0.92 and 0.91 for the left femoral head (P = 0.25). The clinical-based grading also showed that SegNet trained with multi-group data obtained better performance of 352/360 relative to it trained with the SegNet((A)) (334/360), SegNet((B)) (333/360) or SegNet((C)) (320/360). The manual revision time for automatic CTVs (OARs not yet include) was 9.54 +/- 2.42 min relative to fully manual delineation with 30.95 +/- 15.24 min. Conclusion The proposed SegNet can improve the performance at automatic delineation for cervical cancer radiotherapy by incorporating multi-group data. It is clinically applicable that the AI-assisted system can shorten manual delineation time at no expense of quality.

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