A review of methods of analysis in contouring studies for radiation oncology

MG Jameson, LC Holloway, PJ Vial… - Journal of medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Inter‐observer variability in anatomical contouring is the biggest contributor to uncertainty in
radiation treatment planning. Contouring studies are frequently performed to investigate the …

Review of ultrasound image guidance in external beam radiotherapy: I. Treatment planning and inter-fraction motion management

D Fontanarosa, S Van der Meer… - Physics in medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In modern radiotherapy, verification of the treatment to ensure the target receives the
prescribed dose and normal tissues are optimally spared has become essential. Several …

Synthetic MRI-aided multi-organ segmentation on male pelvic CT using cycle consistent deep attention network

X Dong, Y Lei, S Tian, T Wang, P Patel… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Manual contouring is labor intensive, and subject to variations in
operator knowledge, experience and technique. This work aims to develop an automated …

CT prostate segmentation based on synthetic MRI‐aided deep attention fully convolution network

Y Lei, X Dong, Z Tian, Y Liu, S Tian, T Wang… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Accurate segmentation of the prostate on computed tomography (CT) for treatment
planning is challenging due to CT's poor soft tissue contrast. Magnetic resonance imaging …

Classification and evaluation strategies of auto‐segmentation approaches for PET: Report of AAPM task group No. 211

M Hatt, JA Lee, CR Schmidtlein, IE Naqa… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this educational report is to provide an overview of the present state‐
of‐the‐art PET auto‐segmentation (PET‐AS) algorithms and their respective validation, with …

AAPM recommendations on dose prescription and reporting methods for permanent interstitial brachytherapy for prostate cancer: Report of Task Group 137

R Nath, WS Bice, WM Butler, Z Chen… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decade, permanent radioactive source implantation of the prostate has
become the standard of care for selected prostate cancer patients, and the techniques for …

[HTML][HTML] Systematisation of spatial uncertainties for comparison between a MR and a CT-based radiotherapy workflow for prostate treatments

T Nyholm, M Nyberg, MG Karlsson, M Karlsson - Radiation oncology, 2009 - Springer
Background In the present work we compared the spatial uncertainties associated with a MR-
based workflow for external radiotherapy of prostate cancer to a standard CT-based …

Automatic segmentation of the prostate on CT images using deep neural networks (DNN)

C Liu, SJ Gardner, N Wen, MA Elshaikh… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) have unlocked opportunities for
their application for automatic image segmentation. We have evaluated a DNN-based …

[PDF][PDF] Critical discussion of evaluation parameters for inter-observer variability in target definition for radiation therapy

I Fotina, C Lütgendorf-Caucig, M Stock… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2012 - researchgate.net
Advanced radiotherapy techniques like three-dimensional (3D) conformal or intensity-
modulated radiotherapy aim to increase the dose in order to improve local control or reduce …

The international commission on radiation units and measurements

HG Menzel - Journal of the ICRU, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements - Hans-Georg Menzel,
2012 Skip to main content Scheduled maintenance on Monday, November 20th, with …