Deep learning for segmentation in radiation therapy planning: a review

G Samarasinghe, M Jameson, S Vinod… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Segmentation of organs and structures, as either targets or organs‐at‐risk, has a significant
influence on the success of radiation therapy. Manual segmentation is a tedious and time …

Artificial intelligence: reshaping the practice of radiological sciences in the 21st century

I El Naqa, MA Haider, ML Giger… - The British journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Advances in computing hardware and software platforms have led to the recent resurgence
in artificial intelligence (AI) touching almost every aspect of our daily lives by its capability for …

Synthetic CT generation from CBCT images via deep learning

L Chen, X Liang, C Shen, S Jiang, J Wang - Medical physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanning is used daily or weekly (ie,
on‐treatment CBCT) for accurate patient setup in image‐guided radiotherapy. However …

DoseGAN: a generative adversarial network for synthetic dose prediction using attention-gated discrimination and generation

V Kearney, JW Chan, T Wang, A Perry, M Descovich… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Deep learning algorithms have recently been developed that utilize patient anatomy and
raw imaging information to predict radiation dose, as a means to increase treatment …

A deep learning-based automated CT segmentation of prostate cancer anatomy for radiation therapy planning-a retrospective multicenter study

T Kiljunen, S Akram, J Niemelä, E Löyttyniemi… - Diagnostics, 2020 - mdpi.com
A commercial deep learning (DL)-based automated segmentation tool (AST) for computed
tomography (CT) is evaluated for accuracy and efficiency gain within prostate cancer …

Automatic segmentation of pelvic cancers using deep learning: State-of-the-art approaches and challenges

R Kalantar, G Lin, JM Winfield, C Messiou… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The recent rise of deep learning (DL) and its promising capabilities in capturing non-explicit
detail from large datasets have attracted substantial research attention in the field of medical …

Attention-aware discrimination for MR-to-CT image translation using cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks

V Kearney, BP Ziemer, A Perry, T Wang… - Radiology: Artificial …, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To suggest an attention-aware, cycle-consistent generative adversarial network (A-
CycleGAN) enhanced with variational autoencoding (VAE) as a superior alternative to …

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

A Balagopal, D Nguyen, H Morgan, Y Weng… - Medical image …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Deep learning in radiation oncology treatment planning for prostate cancer: a systematic review

G Almeida, JMRS Tavares - Journal of medical systems, 2020 - Springer
Radiation oncology for prostate cancer is important as it can decrease the morbidity and
mortality associated with this disease. Planning for this modality of treatment is both …

Sequential vessel segmentation via deep channel attention network

D Hao, S Ding, L Qiu, Y Lv, B Fei, Y Zhu, B Qin - Neural Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurately segmenting contrast-filled vessels from X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) image
sequence is an essential step for the diagnosis and therapy of coronary artery disease …