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MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy
Due to image quality limitations, online Megavoltage cone beam CT (MV CBCT), which represents real online patient anatomy, cannot be used to perform adaptive radiotherapy (ART). In this study, we used a deep learning method, the cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN), to improve the MV CBCT...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8201514/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34136391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.655325 |
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author | Zhao, Jun Chen, Zhi Wang, Jiazhou Xia, Fan Peng, Jiayuan Hu, Yiwen Hu, Weigang Zhang, Zhen |
author_facet | Zhao, Jun Chen, Zhi Wang, Jiazhou Xia, Fan Peng, Jiayuan Hu, Yiwen Hu, Weigang Zhang, Zhen |
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description | Due to image quality limitations, online Megavoltage cone beam CT (MV CBCT), which represents real online patient anatomy, cannot be used to perform adaptive radiotherapy (ART). In this study, we used a deep learning method, the cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN), to improve the MV CBCT image quality and Hounsfield-unit (HU) accuracy for rectal cancer patients to make the generated synthetic CT (sCT) eligible for ART. Forty rectal cancer patients treated with the intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) were involved in this study. The CT and MV CBCT images of 30 patients were used for model training, and the images of the remaining 10 patients were used for evaluation. Image quality, autosegmentation capability and dose calculation capability using the autoplanning technique of the generated sCT were evaluated. The mean absolute error (MAE) was reduced from 135.84 ± 41.59 HU for the CT and CBCT comparison to 52.99 ± 12.09 HU for the CT and sCT comparison. The structural similarity (SSIM) index for the CT and sCT comparison was 0.81 ± 0.03, which is a great improvement over the 0.44 ± 0.07 for the CT and CBCT comparison. The autosegmentation model performance on sCT for femoral heads was accurate and required almost no manual modification. For the CTV and bladder, although modification was needed for autocontouring, the Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) indices were high, at 0.93 and 0.94 for the CTV and bladder, respectively. For dose evaluation, the sCT-based plan has a much smaller dose deviation from the CT-based plan than that of the CBCT-based plan. The proposed method solved a key problem for rectal cancer ART realization based on MV CBCT. The generated sCT enables ART based on the actual patient anatomy at the treatment position. |
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spelling | pubmed-82015142021-06-15 MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy Zhao, Jun Chen, Zhi Wang, Jiazhou Xia, Fan Peng, Jiayuan Hu, Yiwen Hu, Weigang Zhang, Zhen Front Oncol Oncology Due to image quality limitations, online Megavoltage cone beam CT (MV CBCT), which represents real online patient anatomy, cannot be used to perform adaptive radiotherapy (ART). In this study, we used a deep learning method, the cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN), to improve the MV CBCT image quality and Hounsfield-unit (HU) accuracy for rectal cancer patients to make the generated synthetic CT (sCT) eligible for ART. Forty rectal cancer patients treated with the intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) were involved in this study. The CT and MV CBCT images of 30 patients were used for model training, and the images of the remaining 10 patients were used for evaluation. Image quality, autosegmentation capability and dose calculation capability using the autoplanning technique of the generated sCT were evaluated. The mean absolute error (MAE) was reduced from 135.84 ± 41.59 HU for the CT and CBCT comparison to 52.99 ± 12.09 HU for the CT and sCT comparison. The structural similarity (SSIM) index for the CT and sCT comparison was 0.81 ± 0.03, which is a great improvement over the 0.44 ± 0.07 for the CT and CBCT comparison. The autosegmentation model performance on sCT for femoral heads was accurate and required almost no manual modification. For the CTV and bladder, although modification was needed for autocontouring, the Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) indices were high, at 0.93 and 0.94 for the CTV and bladder, respectively. For dose evaluation, the sCT-based plan has a much smaller dose deviation from the CT-based plan than that of the CBCT-based plan. The proposed method solved a key problem for rectal cancer ART realization based on MV CBCT. The generated sCT enables ART based on the actual patient anatomy at the treatment position. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8201514/ /pubmed/34136391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.655325 Text en Copyright © 2021 Zhao, Chen, Wang, Xia, Peng, Hu, Hu and Zhang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Zhao, Jun Chen, Zhi Wang, Jiazhou Xia, Fan Peng, Jiayuan Hu, Yiwen Hu, Weigang Zhang, Zhen MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy |
title | MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy |
title_full | MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy |
title_fullStr | MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy |
title_full_unstemmed | MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy |
title_short | MV CBCT-Based Synthetic CT Generation Using a Deep Learning Method for Rectal Cancer Adaptive Radiotherapy |
title_sort | mv cbct-based synthetic ct generation using a deep learning method for rectal cancer adaptive radiotherapy |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8201514/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34136391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.655325 |
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