Artificial intelligence-based automated segmentation and radiotherapy dose mapping for thoracic normal tissues Journal Article


Authors: Jiang, J.; Choi, C. M. S.; Deasy, J. O.; Rimner, A.; Thor, M.; Veeraraghavan, H.
Article Title: Artificial intelligence-based automated segmentation and radiotherapy dose mapping for thoracic normal tissues
Abstract: Background and purpose: Objective assessment of delivered radiotherapy (RT) to thoracic organs requires fast and accurate deformable dose mapping. The aim of this study was to implement and evaluate an artificial intelligence (AI) deformable image registration (DIR) and organ segmentation-based AI dose mapping (AIDA) applied to the esophagus and the heart. Materials and methods: AIDA metrics were calculated for 72 locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with concurrent chemo-RT to 60 Gy in 2 Gy fractions in an automated pipeline. The pipeline steps were: (i) automated rigid alignment and cropping of planning CT to week 1 and week 2 cone-beam CT (CBCT) field-of-views, (ii) AI segmentation on CBCTs, and (iii) AI-DIR-based dose mapping to compute dose metrics. AIDA dose metrics were compared to the planned dose and manual contour dose mapping (manual DA). Results: AIDA required ∼2 min/patient. Esophagus and heart segmentations were generated with a mean Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.80±0.15 and 0.94±0.05, a Hausdorff distance at 95th percentile (HD95) of 3.9±3.4 mm and 14.1±8.3 mm, respectively. AIDA heart dose was significantly lower than the planned heart dose (p = 0.04). Larger dose deviations (>=1Gy) were more frequently observed between AIDA and the planned dose (N = 26) than with manual DA (N = 6). Conclusions: Rapid estimation of RT dose to thoracic tissues from CBCT is feasible with AIDA. AIDA-derived metrics and segmentations were similar to manual DA, thus motivating the use of AIDA for RT applications. © 2024 The Author(s)
Keywords: lung cancer; artificial intelligence; cbct; automated dose mapping; registration-segmentation
Journal Title: Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
Volume: 29
ISSN: 2405-6316
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.  
Date Published: 2024-01-01
Start Page: 100542
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.phro.2024.100542
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC10869275
PUBMED: 38369989
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Notes: The MSK Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA008748) is acknowledged in the PDF -- Corresponding author are MSK authors: M. Thor and H. Veeraraghavan -- Source: Scopus
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  1. Andreas Rimner
    524 Rimner
  2. Joseph Owen Deasy
    524 Deasy
  3. Maria Elisabeth Thor
    148 Thor
  4. Jue Jiang
    78 Jiang
  5. Min Seo Choi
    3 Choi