A unified 3D framework for Organs at Risk Localization and Segmentation for Radiation Therapy Planning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00624v1
• Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 17:08:41 GMT
• Title: A unified 3D framework for Organs at Risk Localization and Segmentation for Radiation Therapy Planning
• Authors: Fernando Navarro, Guido Sasahara, Suprosanna Shit, Ivan Ezhov, Jan C. Peeken, Stephanie E. Combs and Bjoern H. Menze
• Abstract summary: Current medical workflow requires manual delineation of organs-at-risk (OAR) In this work, we aim to introduce a unified 3D pipeline for OAR localization-segmentation. Our proposed framework fully enables the exploitation of 3D context information inherent in medical imaging.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Automatic localization and segmentation of organs-at-risk (OAR) in CT are essential pre-processing steps in medical image analysis tasks, such as radiation therapy planning. For instance, the segmentation of OAR surrounding tumors enables the maximization of radiation to the tumor area without compromising the healthy tissues. However, the current medical workflow requires manual delineation of OAR, which is prone to errors and is annotator-dependent. In this work, we aim to introduce a unified 3D pipeline for OAR localization-segmentation rather than novel localization or segmentation architectures. To the best of our knowledge, our proposed framework fully enables the exploitation of 3D context information inherent in medical imaging. In the first step, a 3D multi-variate regression network predicts organs' centroids and bounding boxes. Secondly, 3D organ-specific segmentation networks are leveraged to generate a multi-organ segmentation map. Our method achieved an overall Dice score of $0.9260\pm 0.18 \%$ on the VISCERAL dataset containing CT scans with varying fields of view and multiple organs.

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