Using Auto-Segmentation to Reduce Contouring and Dose Inconsistency in Clinical Trials: The Simulated Impact on RTOG 0617.

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics
Maria ThorJoseph O Deasy

Abstract

Contouring inconsistencies are known but understudied in clinical radiation therapy trials. We applied auto-contouring to the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0617 dose escalation trial data. We hypothesized that the trial heart doses were higher than reported due to inconsistent and insufficient heart segmentation. We tested our hypothesis by comparing doses between deep-learning (DL) segmented hearts and trial hearts. The RTOG 0617 data were downloaded from The Cancer Imaging Archive; the 442 patients with trial hearts and dose distributions were included. All hearts were resegmented using our DL pipeline and quality assured to meet the requirements for clinical implementation. Dose (V5%, V30%, and mean heart dose) was compared between the 2 sets of hearts (Wilcoxon signed-rank test). Each dose metric was associated with overall survival (Cox proportional hazards). Lastly, 18 volume similarity metrics were assessed for the hearts and correlated with |DoseDL - DoseRTOG0617| (linear regression; significance: P ≤ .0028; corrected for 18 tests). Dose metrics were significantly higher for DL hearts compared with trial hearts (eg, mean heart dose: 15 Gy vs 12 Gy; P = 5.8E-16). All 3 DL heart dose metrics were stronger overal...Continue Reading

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