Chavelli M. Kensen , Rita Simões , Anja Betgen , Lisa Wiersema , Doenja M.J. Lambregts , Femke P. Peters , Corrie A.M. Marijnen , Uulke A. van der Heide , Tomas M. Janssen
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Incorporating patient-specific information for the development of rectal tumor auto-segmentation models for online adaptive magnetic resonance Image-guided radiotherapy
Background and purpose
In online adaptive magnetic resonance image (MRI)-guided radiotherapy (MRIgRT), manual contouring of rectal tumors on daily images is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Automation of this task is complex due to substantial variation in tumor shape and location between patients. The aim of this work was to investigate different approaches of propagating patient-specific prior information to the online adaptive treatment fractions to improve deep-learning based auto-segmentation of rectal tumors.
Materials and methods
243 T2-weighted MRI scans of 49 rectal cancer patients treated on the 1.5T MR-Linear accelerator (MR-Linac) were utilized to train models to segment rectal tumors. As benchmark, an MRI_only auto-segmentation model was trained. Three approaches of including a patient-specific prior were studied: 1. include the segmentations of fraction 1 as extra input channel for the auto-segmentation of subsequent fractions, 2. fine-tuning of the MRI_only model to fraction 1 (PSF_1) and 3. fine-tuning of the MRI_only model on all earlier fractions (PSF_cumulative). Auto-segmentations were compared to the manual segmentation using geometric similarity metrics. Clinical impact was assessed by evaluating post-treatment target coverage.
Results
All patient-specific methods outperformed the MRI_only segmentation approach. Median 95th percentile Hausdorff (95HD) were 22.0 (range: 6.1–76.6) mm for MRI_only segmentation, 9.9 (range: 2.5–38.2) mm for MRI+prior segmentation, 6.4 (range: 2.4–17.8) mm for PSF_1 and 4.8 (range: 1.7–26.9) mm for PSF_cumulative. PSF_cumulative was found to be superior to PSF_1 from fraction 4 onward (p = 0.014).
Conclusion
Patient-specific fine-tuning of automatically segmented rectal tumors, using images and segmentations from all previous fractions, yields superior quality compared to other auto-segmentation approaches.