Segmentation of Organs-At-Risk from Ct and Mr Images of the Head and Neck: Baseline Results

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For the head and neck (HaN) cancer, radiotherapy is a mainstay treatment modality that aims to deliver a high radiation dose to the targeted cancerous cells while sparing the nearby healthy organs-at-risk (OARs). A precise three-dimensional segmentation of OARs from computed tomography (CT) images is required for optimal radiation dose distribution calculation, however, so far there has been no evaluation about the impact of the combined analysis of multiple imaging modalities, such as CT and magnetic resonance (MR). For this purpose, we have devised a database of 56 CT and MR images of the same patients with 31 manually delineated OARs, and in this paper we present the baseline segmentation results that were obtained by applying the nnU-Net framework. The resulting average Dice coefficient of 68% and average 95-percentile Hausdorff distance of 8.2mm on a subset of 14 images indicate that nnU-Net serves as a solid baseline method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2022
Pages1-4
ISBN (Electronic)9781665429238
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event19th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2022 - Kolkata, India
Duration: 28 Mar 202231 Mar 2022

Conference

Conference19th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2022
LandIndia
ByKolkata
Periode28/03/202231/03/2022
SponsorIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), IEEE Signal Processing Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

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    Research areas

  • automated segmentation, computed tomography, head and neck radiotherapy planning, magnetic resonance, organs-at-risk

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