[HTML][HTML] A preliminary experience of implementing deep-learning based auto-segmentation in head and neck cancer: a study on real-world clinical cases

Y Zhong, Y Yang, Y Fang, J Wang, W Hu - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Purpose While artificial intelligence has shown great promise in organs-at-risk (OARs) auto
segmentation for head and neck cancer (HNC) radiotherapy, to reach the level of clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical validation of a deep-learning segmentation software in head and neck: an early analysis in a developing radiation oncology center

A D'Aviero, A Re, F Catucci, D Piccari, C Votta… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Organs at risk (OARs) delineation is a crucial step of radiotherapy (RT)
treatment planning workflow. Time-consuming and inter-observer variability are main issues …

Weaving attention U‐net: A novel hybrid CNN and attention‐based method for organs‐at‐risk segmentation in head and neck CT images

Z Zhang, T Zhao, H Gay, W Zhang, B Sun - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose In radiotherapy planning, manual contouring is labor‐intensive and time‐
consuming. Accurate and robust automated segmentation models improve the efficiency …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of clinical acceptability of deep-learning-based automated segmentation of organs-at-risk for head-and-neck radiotherapy treatment planning

JJ Lucido, TA DeWees, TR Leavitt, A Anand… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Organ-at-risk segmentation for head and neck cancer radiation therapy is a
complex and time-consuming process (requiring up to 42 individual structure, and may …

Cascaded deep learning‐based auto‐segmentation for head and neck cancer patients: organs at risk on T2‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging

JC Korte, N Hardcastle, SP Ng, B Clark, T Kron… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To investigate multiple deep learning methods for automated segmentation (auto‐
segmentation) of the parotid glands, submandibular glands, and level II and level III lymph …

Deep learning to achieve clinically applicable segmentation of head and neck anatomy for radiotherapy

S Nikolov, S Blackwell, A Zverovitch, R Mendes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year
worldwide. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires …

Benefits of deep learning for delineation of organs at risk in head and neck cancer

J Van der Veen, S Willems, S Deschuymer… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose/objective Precise delineation of organs at risk (OARs) in head and neck cancer
(HNC) is necessary for accurate radiotherapy. Although guidelines exist, significant …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning for automatic head and neck lymph node level delineation provides expert-level accuracy

T Weissmann, Y Huang, S Fischer, J Roesch… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Deep learning-based head and neck lymph node level (HN_LNL)
autodelineation is of high relevance to radiotherapy research and clinical treatment planning …

Automated delineation of head and neck organs at risk using synthetic MRI‐aided mask scoring regional convolutional neural network

X Dai, Y Lei, T Wang, J Zhou, J Roper… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Auto‐segmentation algorithms offer a potential solution to eliminate the labor‐
intensive, time‐consuming, and observer‐dependent manual delineation of organs‐at‐risk …

Auto‐segmentation of organs at risk for head and neck radiotherapy planning: from atlas‐based to deep learning methods

T Vrtovec, D Močnik, P Strojan, F Pernuš… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the basic treatment modalities for cancer of the head and neck
(H&N), which requires a precise spatial description of the target volumes and organs at risk …