A deep learning-based framework for segmenting invisible clinical target volumes with estimated uncertainties for post-operative prostate cancer radiotherapy.

Medical Image Analysis
Anjali BalagopalSteve B Jiang

Abstract

In post-operative radiotherapy for prostate cancer, precisely contouring the clinical target volume (CTV) to be irradiated is challenging, because the cancerous prostate gland has been surgically removed, so the CTV encompasses the microscopic spread of tumor cells, which cannot be visualized in clinical images like computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. In current clinical practice, physicians' segment CTVs manually based on their relationship with nearby organs and other clinical information, but this allows large inter-physician variability. Automating post-operative prostate CTV segmentation with traditional image segmentation methods has yielded suboptimal results. We propose using deep learning to accurately segment post-operative prostate CTVs. The model proposed is trained using labels that were clinically approved and used for patient treatment. To segment the CTV, we segment nearby organs first, then use their relationship with the CTV to assist CTV segmentation. To ease the encoding of distance-based features, which are important for learning both the CTV contours' overlap with the surrounding OARs and the distance from their borders, we add distance prediction as an auxiliary task to the CTV network. To ...Continue Reading

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