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 …

Deep learning for segmentation in radiation therapy planning: a review

G Samarasinghe, M Jameson, S Vinod… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Segmentation of organs and structures, as either targets or organs‐at‐risk, has a significant
influence on the success of radiation therapy. Manual segmentation is a tedious and time …

Artificial intelligence: resha** the practice of radiological sciences in the 21st century

I El Naqa, MA Haider, ML Giger… - The British journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Advances in computing hardware and software platforms have led to the recent resurgence
in artificial intelligence (AI) touching almost every aspect of our daily lives by its capability for …

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

D **, D Guo, TY Ho, AP Harrison, J **ao… - 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 …

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 …

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

D Guo, D **, 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Generating high-quality lymph node clinical target volumes for head and neck cancer radiation therapy using a fully automated deep learning-based …

CE Cardenas, BM Beadle, AS Garden… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To develop a deep learning model that generates consistent, high-quality lymph
node clinical target volumes (CTV) contours for head and neck cancer (HNC) patients, as an …

The emergence of artificial intelligence within radiation oncology treatment planning

TJ Netherton, CE Cardenas, DJ Rhee, LE Court… - Oncology, 2021 - karger.com
Background: The future of artificial intelligence (AI) heralds unprecedented change for the
field of radiation oncology. Commercial vendors and academic institutions have created AI …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning for automatic target volume segmentation in radiation therapy: a review

H Lin, H **ao, L Dong, KBK Teo, W Zou… - Quantitative Imaging in …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Deep learning, a new branch of machine learning algorithm, has emerged as a fast growing
trend in medical imaging and become the state-of-the-art method in various clinical …