iPhantom: A Framework for Automated Creation of Individualized Computational Phantoms and Its Application to CT Organ Dosimetry
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 2021•ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: This study aims to develop and validate a novel framework, iPhantom, for
automated creation of patient-specific phantoms or “digital-twins (DT)” using patient medical
images. The framework is applied to assess radiation dose to radiosensitive organs in CT
imaging of individual patients. Method: Given a volume of patient CT images, iPhantom
segments selected anchor organs and structures (eg, liver, bones, pancreas) using a
learning-based model developed for multi-organ CT segmentation. Organs which are …
automated creation of patient-specific phantoms or “digital-twins (DT)” using patient medical
images. The framework is applied to assess radiation dose to radiosensitive organs in CT
imaging of individual patients. Method: Given a volume of patient CT images, iPhantom
segments selected anchor organs and structures (eg, liver, bones, pancreas) using a
learning-based model developed for multi-organ CT segmentation. Organs which are …
Objective
This study aims to develop and validate a novel framework, iPhantom, for automated creation of patient-specific phantoms or “digital-twins (DT)” using patient medical images. The framework is applied to assess radiation dose to radiosensitive organs in CT imaging of individual patients.
Method
Given a volume of patient CT images, iPhantom segments selected anchor organs and structures (e.g., liver, bones, pancreas) using a learning-based model developed for multi-organ CT segmentation. Organs which are challenging to segment (e.g., intestines) are incorporated from a matched phantom template, using a diffeomorphic registration model developed for multi-organ phantom-voxels. The resulting digital-twin phantoms are used to assess organ doses during routine CT exams.
Result
iPhantom was validated on both with a set of XCAT digital phantoms (n = 50) and an independent clinical dataset (n = 10) with similar accuracy. iPhantom precisely predicted all organ locations yielding Dice Similarity Coefficients (DSC) 0.6 - 1 for anchor organs and DSC of 0.3-0.9 for all other organs. iPhantom showed <; 10% errors in estimated radiation dose for the majority of organs, which was notably superior to the state-of-the-art baseline method (20-35% dose errors).
Conclusion
iPhantom enables automated and accurate creation of patient-specific phantoms and, for the first time, provides sufficient and automated patient-specific dose estimates for CT dosimetry.
Significance
The new framework brings the creation and application of CHPs (computational human phantoms) to the level of individual CHPs through automation, achieving wide and precise organ localization, paving the way for clinical monitoring, personalized optimization, and large-scale research.
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