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 …

Automated contouring and planning in radiation therapy: what is 'clinically acceptable'?

H Baroudi, KK Brock, W Cao, X Chen, C Chung… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Developers and users of artificial-intelligence-based tools for automatic contouring and
treatment planning in radiotherapy are expected to assess clinical acceptability of these …

HaN‐Seg: The head and neck organ‐at‐risk CT and MR segmentation dataset

G Podobnik, P Strojan, P Peterlin, B Ibragimov… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose For the cancer in the head and neck (HaN), radiotherapy (RT) represents an
important treatment modality. Segmentation of organs‐at‐risk (OARs) is the starting point of …

Evaluating the clinical acceptability of deep learning contours of prostate and organs‐at‐risk in an automated prostate treatment planning process

J Duan, M Bernard, L Downes, B Willows… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Radiation treatment is considered an effective and the most common treatment
option for prostate cancer. The treatment planning process requires accurate and precise …

Recent applications of artificial intelligence in radiotherapy: where we are and beyond

M Santoro, S Strolin, G Paolani, G Della Gala… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Computational models based on artificial intelligence (AI) variants
have been developed and applied successfully in many areas, both inside and outside of …

Deep learning vs. atlas-based models for fast auto-segmentation of the masticatory muscles on head and neck CT images

W Chen, Y Li, BA Dyer, X Feng, S Rao, SH Benedict… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
Background Impaired function of masticatory muscles will lead to trismus. Routine
delineation of these muscles during planning may improve dose tracking and facilitate dose …

Artificial intelligence for radiation oncology applications using public datasets

KA Wahid, E Glerean, J Sahlsten, J Jaskari… - Seminars in radiation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Artificial intelligence (AI) has exceptional potential to positively impact the field of radiation
oncology. However, large curated datasets-often involving imaging data and corresponding …

A clinical evaluation of the performance of five commercial artificial intelligence contouring systems for radiotherapy

PJ Doolan, S Charalambous, Y Roussakis… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose/objective (s) Auto-segmentation with artificial intelligence (AI) offers an opportunity
to reduce inter-and intra-observer variability in contouring, to improve the quality of contours …

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 …

Towards more precise automatic analysis: a comprehensive survey of deep learning-based multi-organ segmentation

X Liu, L Qu, Z Xie, J Zhao, Y Shi, Z Song - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00232, 2023 - arxiv.org
Accurate segmentation of multiple organs of the head, neck, chest, and abdomen from
medical images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis, surgical navigation, and …