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Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring
BACKGROUND: Prostate bed (PB) contouring is time consuming and associated with inter-observer variability. We evaluated an automated atlas-based segmentation (AABS) engine in its potential to reduce contouring time and inter-observer variability. METHODS: An atlas builder (AB) manually contoured the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21906279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-6-110 |
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author | Hwee, Jeremiah Louie, Alexander V Gaede, Stewart Bauman, Glenn D'Souza, David Sexton, Tracy Lock, Michael Ahmad, Belal Rodrigues, George |
author_facet | Hwee, Jeremiah Louie, Alexander V Gaede, Stewart Bauman, Glenn D'Souza, David Sexton, Tracy Lock, Michael Ahmad, Belal Rodrigues, George |
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description | BACKGROUND: Prostate bed (PB) contouring is time consuming and associated with inter-observer variability. We evaluated an automated atlas-based segmentation (AABS) engine in its potential to reduce contouring time and inter-observer variability. METHODS: An atlas builder (AB) manually contoured the prostate bed, rectum, left femoral head (LFH), right femoral head (RFH), bladder, and penile bulb of 75 post-prostatectomy cases to create an atlas according to the recent RTOG guidelines. 5 other Radiation Oncologists (RO) and the AABS contoured 5 new cases. A STAPLE contour for each of the 5 patients was generated. All contours were anonymized and sent back to the 5 RO to be edited as clinically necessary. All contouring times were recorded. The dice similarity coefficient (DSC) was used to evaluate the unedited- and edited- AABS and inter-observer variability among the RO. Descriptive statistics, paired t-tests and a Pearson correlation were performed. ANOVA analysis using logit transformations of DSC values was calculated to assess inter-observer variability. RESULTS: The mean time for manual contours and AABS was 17.5- and 14.1 minutes respectively (p = 0.003). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the unedited-AABS versus STAPLE contours for the PB (0.48, 0.17), bladder (0.67, 0.19), LFH (0.92, 0.01), RFH (0.92, 0.01), penile bulb (0.33, 0.25) and rectum (0.59, 0.11). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the edited-AABS versus STAPLE contours for the PB (0.67, 0.19), bladder (0.88, 0.13), LFH (0.93, 0.01), RFH (0.92, 0.01), penile bulb (0.54, 0.21) and rectum (0.78, 0.12). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the edited-AABS versus the expert panel for the PB (0.47, 0.16), bladder (0.67, 0.18), LFH (0.83, 0.18), RFH (0.83, 0.17), penile bulb (0.31, 0.23) and rectum (0.58, 0.09). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the STAPLE contours and the 5 RO are PB (0.78, 0.15), bladder (0.96, 0.02), left femoral head (0.87, 0.19), right femoral head (0.87, 0.19), penile bulb (0.70, 0.17) and the rectum (0.89, 0.06). The ANOVA analysis suggests inter-observer variability among at least one of the 5 RO (p value = 0.002). CONCLUSION: The AABS tool results in a time savings, and when used to generate auto-contours for the femoral heads, bladder and rectum had superior to good spatial overlap. However, the generated auto-contours for the prostate bed and penile bulb need improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-31802722011-09-27 Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring Hwee, Jeremiah Louie, Alexander V Gaede, Stewart Bauman, Glenn D'Souza, David Sexton, Tracy Lock, Michael Ahmad, Belal Rodrigues, George Radiat Oncol Research BACKGROUND: Prostate bed (PB) contouring is time consuming and associated with inter-observer variability. We evaluated an automated atlas-based segmentation (AABS) engine in its potential to reduce contouring time and inter-observer variability. METHODS: An atlas builder (AB) manually contoured the prostate bed, rectum, left femoral head (LFH), right femoral head (RFH), bladder, and penile bulb of 75 post-prostatectomy cases to create an atlas according to the recent RTOG guidelines. 5 other Radiation Oncologists (RO) and the AABS contoured 5 new cases. A STAPLE contour for each of the 5 patients was generated. All contours were anonymized and sent back to the 5 RO to be edited as clinically necessary. All contouring times were recorded. The dice similarity coefficient (DSC) was used to evaluate the unedited- and edited- AABS and inter-observer variability among the RO. Descriptive statistics, paired t-tests and a Pearson correlation were performed. ANOVA analysis using logit transformations of DSC values was calculated to assess inter-observer variability. RESULTS: The mean time for manual contours and AABS was 17.5- and 14.1 minutes respectively (p = 0.003). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the unedited-AABS versus STAPLE contours for the PB (0.48, 0.17), bladder (0.67, 0.19), LFH (0.92, 0.01), RFH (0.92, 0.01), penile bulb (0.33, 0.25) and rectum (0.59, 0.11). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the edited-AABS versus STAPLE contours for the PB (0.67, 0.19), bladder (0.88, 0.13), LFH (0.93, 0.01), RFH (0.92, 0.01), penile bulb (0.54, 0.21) and rectum (0.78, 0.12). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the edited-AABS versus the expert panel for the PB (0.47, 0.16), bladder (0.67, 0.18), LFH (0.83, 0.18), RFH (0.83, 0.17), penile bulb (0.31, 0.23) and rectum (0.58, 0.09). The DSC results (mean, SD) for the comparison of the STAPLE contours and the 5 RO are PB (0.78, 0.15), bladder (0.96, 0.02), left femoral head (0.87, 0.19), right femoral head (0.87, 0.19), penile bulb (0.70, 0.17) and the rectum (0.89, 0.06). The ANOVA analysis suggests inter-observer variability among at least one of the 5 RO (p value = 0.002). CONCLUSION: The AABS tool results in a time savings, and when used to generate auto-contours for the femoral heads, bladder and rectum had superior to good spatial overlap. However, the generated auto-contours for the prostate bed and penile bulb need improvement. BioMed Central 2011-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3180272/ /pubmed/21906279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-6-110 Text en Copyright ©2011 Hwee et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Hwee, Jeremiah Louie, Alexander V Gaede, Stewart Bauman, Glenn D'Souza, David Sexton, Tracy Lock, Michael Ahmad, Belal Rodrigues, George Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring |
title | Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring |
title_full | Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring |
title_fullStr | Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring |
title_full_unstemmed | Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring |
title_short | Technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring |
title_sort | technology assessment of automated atlas based segmentation in prostate bed contouring |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21906279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-6-110 |
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