Clinical practice in PET/CT for the management of head and neck squamous cell cancer

R Goel, W Moore, B Sumer, S Khan… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to summarize the evidence for the value of
PET/CT for the management of patients with head and neck squamous cell cancer and …

Head and neck cancer adaptive radiation therapy (ART): conceptual considerations for the informed clinician

J Heukelom, CD Fuller - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
For nearly 2 decades, adaptive radiation therapy (ART) has been proposed as a method to
account for changes in head and neck tumor and normal tissue to enhance therapeutic …

Gross tumor volume segmentation for head and neck cancer radiotherapy using deep dense multi-modality network

Z Guo, N Guo, K Gong, Q Li - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In radiation therapy, the accurate delineation of gross tumor volume (GTV) is crucial for
treatment planning. However, it is challenging for head and neck cancer (HNC) due to the …

Fully automated delineation of gross tumor volume for head and neck cancer on PET‐CT using deep learning: A dual‐center study

B Huang, Z Chen, PM Wu, Y Ye… - Contrast media & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose. In this study, we proposed an automated deep learning (DL) method for head and
neck cancer (HNC) gross tumor volume (GTV) contouring on positron emission tomography …

Assessing radiomic feature robustness to interpolation in 18F-FDG PET imaging

P Whybra, C Parkinson, K Foley, J Staffurth, E Spezi - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Radiomic studies link quantitative imaging features to patient outcomes in an effort to
personalise treatment in oncology. To be clinically useful, a radiomic feature must be robust …

Fully automated gross tumor volume delineation from PET in head and neck cancer using deep learning algorithms

I Shiri, H Arabi, A Sanaat, E Jenabi… - Clinical Nuclear …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Purpose The availability of automated, accurate, and robust gross tumor volume (GTV)
segmentation algorithms is critical for the management of head and neck cancer (HNC) …

A comparison of methods for fully automatic segmentation of tumors and involved nodes in PET/CT of head and neck cancers

AR Groendahl, IS Knudtsen, BN Huynh… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Target volume delineation is a vital but time-consuming and challenging part of
radiotherapy, where the goal is to deliver sufficient dose to the target while reducing risks of …

Artificial intelligence in radiation oncology: A review of its current status and potential application for the radiotherapy workforce

C Parkinson, C Matthams, K Foley, E Spezi - Radiography, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Radiation oncology is a continually evolving speciality. With the development of
new imaging modalities and advanced imaging processing techniques, there is an …

Automatic segmentation of gross target volume of nasopharynx cancer using ensemble of multiscale deep neural networks with spatial attention

H Mei, W Lei, R Gu, S Ye, Z Sun, S Zhang, G Wang - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is the main treatment method for nasopharynx cancer. Delineation of Gross
Target Volume (GTV) from medical images is a prerequisite for radiotherapy. As manual …

Improving PET imaging acquisition and analysis with machine learning: a narrative review with focus on Alzheimer's disease and oncology

IR Duffy, AJ Boyle, N Vasdev - Molecular imaging, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Machine learning (ML) algorithms have found increasing utility in the medical imaging field
and numerous applications in the analysis of digital biomarkers within positron emission …