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Anatomically consistent CNN-based segmentation of organs-at-risk in cranial radiotherapy

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Planning of radiotherapy involves accurate segmentation of a large number of organs at risk (OAR), i.e., organs for which irradiation doses should be minimized to avoid important side effects of the therapy. We propose a deep learning method for segmentation of OAR inside the head, from magnetic resonance images (MRIs). Our system performs segmentation of eight structures: eye, lens, optic nerve, optic chiasm, pituitary gland, hippocampus, brainstem, and brain. We propose an efficient algorithm to train neural networks for an end-to-end segmentation of multiple and nonexclusive classes, addressing problems related to computational costs and missing ground truth segmentations for a subset of classes. We enforce anatomical consistency of the result in a postprocessing step. In particular, we introduce a graph-based algorithm for segmentation of the optic nerves, enforcing the connectivity between the eyes and the optic chiasm. We report cross-validated quantitative results on a database of 44 contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRIs with provided segmentations of the considered OAR, which were originally used for radiotherapy planning. In addition, the segmentations produced by our model on an independent test set of 50 MRIs were evaluated by an experienced radiotherapist in order to qualitatively assess their accuracy. The mean distances between produced segmentations and the ground truth ranged from 0.1 to 0.7 mm across different organs. A vast majority (96%) of the produced segmentations were found acceptable for radiotherapy planning.
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hal-02181181 , version 1 (12-07-2019)
hal-02181181 , version 2 (02-03-2020)

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Pawel Mlynarski, Hervé Delingette, Hamza A Alghamdi, Pierre-Yves Bondiau, Nicholas Ayache. Anatomically consistent CNN-based segmentation of organs-at-risk in cranial radiotherapy. Journal of Medical Imaging, 2020, 7 (1), pp.1--21. ⟨10.1117/1.JMI.7.1.014502⟩. ⟨hal-02181181v2⟩
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