Current and emerging trends in medical image segmentation with deep learning

PH Conze, G Andrade-Miranda… - … on Radiation and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the segmentation of anatomical or pathological structures using deep
learning has experienced a widespread interest in medical image analysis. Remarkably …

The role of computational methods for automating and improving clinical target volume definition

J Unkelbach, T Bortfeld, CE Cardenas… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment planning in radiotherapy distinguishes three target volume concepts: the
gross tumor volume (GTV), the clinical target volume (CTV), and the planning target volume …

DeepTarget: Gross tumor and clinical target volume segmentation in esophageal cancer radiotherapy

D Jin, D Guo, TY Ho, AP Harrison, J Xiao… - Medical Image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gross tumor volume (GTV) and clinical target volume (CTV) delineation are two critical steps
in the cancer radiotherapy planning. GTV defines the primary treatment area of the gross …

Organ at risk segmentation for head and neck cancer using stratified learning and neural architecture search

D Guo, D Jin, Z Zhu, TY Ho… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
OAR segmentation is a critical step in radiotherapy of head and neck (H&N) cancer, where
inconsistencies across radiation oncologists and prohibitive labor costs motivate automated …

[HTML][HTML] Development and validation of a deep learning algorithm for auto-delineation of clinical target volume and organs at risk in cervical cancer radiotherapy

Z Liu, X Liu, H Guan, H Zhen, Y Sun, Q Chen… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose The delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) is a crucial, laborious and
subjective step in cervical cancer radiotherapy. The aim of this study was to propose and …

Multi-modal medical Transformers: A meta-analysis for medical image segmentation in oncology

G Andrade-Miranda, V Jaouen, O Tankyevych… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-modal medical image segmentation is a crucial task in oncology that enables the
precise localization and quantification of tumors. The aim of this work is to present a meta …

Accurate esophageal gross tumor volume segmentation in PET/CT using two-stream chained 3D deep network fusion

D Jin, D Guo, TY Ho, AP Harrison, J Xiao… - … Image Computing and …, 2019 - Springer
Gross tumor volume (GTV) segmentation is a critical step in esophageal cancer radiotherapy
treatment planning. Inconsistencies across oncologists and prohibitive labor costs motivate …

Co-heterogeneous and adaptive segmentation from multi-source and multi-phase CT imaging data: A study on pathological liver and lesion segmentation

A Raju, CT Cheng, Y Huo, J Cai, J Huang… - … on Computer Vision, 2020 - Springer
Within medical imaging, organ/pathology segmentation models trained on current publicly
available and fully-annotated datasets usually do not well-represent the heterogeneous …

Esophageal tumor segmentation in CT images using a dilated dense attention Unet (DDAUnet)

S Yousefi, H Sokooti, MS Elmahdy, IM Lips… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manual or automatic delineation of the esophageal tumor in CT images is known to be very
challenging. This is due to the low contrast between the tumor and adjacent tissues, the …

Lymph node gross tumor volume detection in oncology imaging via relationship learning using graph neural network

CH Chao, Z Zhu, D Guo, K Yan, TY Ho, J Cai… - … Conference on Medical …, 2020 - Springer
Determining the spread of lymph node gross tumor volume (GTV _ LN LN) is essential in
defining the respective resection or irradiating regions for the downstream workflows of …