Evaluation of deep learning-based auto-segmentation algorithms for delineating clinical target volume and organs at risk involving data for 125 cervical cancer patients.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the accuracy of a deep learning-based auto-segmentation mode to that of manual contouring by one medical resident, where both entities tried to mimic the delineation "habits" of the same clinical senior physician. METHODS:This study included 125 cervical cancer patients whose clinical target volumes (CTVs) and organs at risk (OARs) were delineated by the same senior physician. Of these 125 cases, 100 were used for model training and the remaining 25 for model testing. In addition, the medical resident instructed by the senior physician for approximately 8 months delineated the CTVs and OARs for the testing cases. The dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and the Hausdorff Distance (HD) were used to evaluate the delineation accuracy for CTV, bladder, rectum, small intestine, femoral-head-left, and femoral-head-right. RESULTS:The DSC values of the auto-segmentation model and manual contouring by the resident were, respectively, 0.86 and 0.83 for the CTV (P < 0.05), 0.91 and 0.91 for the bladder (P > 0.05), 0.88 and 0.84 for the femoral-head-right (P < 0.05), 0.88 and 0.84 for the femoral-head-left (P < 0.05), 0.86 and 0.81 for the small intestine (P < 0.05), and 0.81 and 0.84 for the rectum (P > 0.05). The HD (mm) values were, respectively, 14.84 and 18.37 for the CTV (P < 0.05), 7.82 and 7.63 for the bladder (P > 0.05), 6.18 and 6.75 for the femoral-head-right (P > 0.05), 6.17 and 6.31 for the femoral-head-left (P > 0.05), 22.21 and 26.70 for the small intestine (P > 0.05), and 7.04 and 6.13 for the rectum (P > 0.05). The auto-segmentation model took approximately 2 min to delineate the CTV and OARs while the resident took approximately 90 min to complete the same task. CONCLUSION:The auto-segmentation model was as accurate as the medical resident but with much better efficiency in this study. Furthermore, the auto-segmentation approach offers additional perceivable advantages of being consistent and ever improving when compared with manual approaches.

journal_name

J Appl Clin Med Phys

authors

Wang Z,Chang Y,Peng Z,Lv Y,Shi W,Wang F,Pei X,Xu XG

doi

10.1002/acm2.13097

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-12-01 00:00:00

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272-279

issue

12

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1526-9914

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21

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