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 …

A review on application of deep learning algorithms in external beam radiotherapy automated treatment planning

M Wang, Q Zhang, S Lam, J Cai, R Yang - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Treatment planning plays an important role in the process of radiotherapy (RT). The quality
of the treatment plan directly and significantly affects patient treatment outcomes. In the past …

Classification and evaluation strategies of auto‐segmentation approaches for PET: Report of AAPM task group No. 211

M Hatt, JA Lee, CR Schmidtlein, IE Naqa… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this educational report is to provide an overview of the present state‐
of‐the‐art PET auto‐segmentation (PET‐AS) algorithms and their respective validation, with …

Artificial intelligence in radiotherapy treatment planning: present and future

C Wang, X Zhu, JC Hong… - Technology in cancer …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Treatment planning is an essential step of the radiotherapy workflow. It has become more
sophisticated over the past couple of decades with the help of computer science, enabling …

Deep learning techniques for medical image segmentation: achievements and challenges

MH Hesamian, W Jia, X He, P Kennedy - Journal of digital imaging, 2019 - Springer
Deep learning-based image segmentation is by now firmly established as a robust tool in
image segmentation. It has been widely used to separate homogeneous areas as the first …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical evaluation of a full-image deep segmentation algorithm for the male pelvis on cone-beam CT and CT

J Schreier, A Genghi, H Laaksonen, T Morgas… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Aim The segmentation of organs from a CT scan is a time-consuming task, which is one
hindrance for adaptive radiation therapy. Through deep learning, it is possible to …

Deep learning in radiation oncology treatment planning for prostate cancer: a systematic review

G Almeida, JMRS Tavares - Journal of medical systems, 2020 - Springer
Radiation oncology for prostate cancer is important as it can decrease the morbidity and
mortality associated with this disease. Planning for this modality of treatment is both …

Automatic segmentation of the clinical target volume and organs at risk in the planning CT for rectal cancer using deep dilated convolutional neural networks

K Men, J Dai, Y Li - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) and organs at risk (OAR s) is very
important for radiotherapy but is time‐consuming and prone to inter‐observer variation …

Head and neck cancer patient images for determining auto‐segmentation accuracy in T2‐weighted magnetic resonance imaging through expert manual …

CE Cardenas, ASR Mohamed, J Yang… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in radiotherapy treatment planning
has rapidly increased due to its ability to evaluate patient's anatomy without the use of …

Variability and reproducibility in deep learning for medical image segmentation

F Renard, S Guedria, ND Palma, N Vuillerme - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Medical image segmentation is an important tool for current clinical applications. It is the
backbone of numerous clinical diagnosis methods, oncological treatments and computer …