Advances in auto-segmentation

CE Cardenas, J Yang, BM Anderson, LE Court… - Seminars in radiation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Manual image segmentation is a time-consuming task routinely performed in radiotherapy to
identify each patient's targets and anatomical structures. The efficacy and safety of the …

Head and neck cancer adaptive radiation therapy (ART): conceptual considerations for the informed clinician

J Heukelom, CD Fuller - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
For nearly 2 decades, adaptive radiation therapy (ART) has been proposed as a method to
account for changes in head and neck tumor and normal tissue to enhance therapeutic …

Delineation of the primary tumour clinical target volumes (ctv-p) in laryngeal, hypopharyngeal, oropharyngeal and oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: Airo, caca …

V Grégoire, M Evans, QT Le, J Bourhis… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - thegreenjournal.com
Purpose Few studies have reported large inter-observer variations in target volume
selection and delineation in patients treated with radiotherapy for head and neck squamous …

Deep learning algorithm for auto-delineation of high-risk oropharyngeal clinical target volumes with built-in dice similarity coefficient parameter optimization function

CE Cardenas, RE McCarroll, LE Court… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Automating and standardizing the contouring of clinical target volumes (CTVs) can
reduce interphysician variability, which is one of the largest sources of uncertainty in head …

Automatic detection of contouring errors using convolutional neural networks

DJ Rhee, CE Cardenas, H Elhalawani… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a head and neck normal structures autocontouring tool that could be
used to automatically detect the errors in autocontours from a clinically validated …

Auto-delineation of oropharyngeal clinical target volumes using 3D convolutional neural networks

CE Cardenas, BM Anderson… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate clinical target volume (CTV) delineation is essential to ensure proper tumor
coverage in radiation therapy. This is a particularly difficult task for head-and-neck cancer …

Retrospective validation and clinical implementation of automated contouring of organs at risk in the head and neck: a step toward automated radiation treatment …

RE McCarroll, BM Beadle, PA Balter… - Journal of Global …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose We assessed automated contouring of normal structures for patients with head-and-
neck cancer (HNC) using a multiatlas deformable-image-registration algorithm to better …

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 …

Matched computed tomography segmentation and demographic data for oropharyngeal cancer radiomics challenges

H Elhalawani, ASR Mohamed, AL White… - Scientific …, 2017 - mdanderson.elsevierpure.com
Cancers arising from the oropharynx have become increasingly more studied in the past few
years, as they are now epidemic domestically. These tumors are treated with definitive …

Consequences of introducing geometric GTV to CTV margin expansion in DAHANCA contouring guidelines for head and neck radiotherapy

CR Hansen, J Johansen, E Samsøe… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Defining margins around the Gross Tumour Volume (GTV) to
create a Clinical Target Volume (CTV) for head and neck cancer radiotherapy has …