In Medical physics ; h5-index 59.0
OBJECTIVES : Radiotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer. Accurate delineation of tumor is the key to successful radiotherapy. Compared with the commonly used manual delineation ways which are time-consuming and laborious, the automatic segmentation methods based on deep learning can greatly improve the treatment efficiency.
METHODS : In this paper, we introduce an automatic segmentation method by combining coarse and fine segmentations for non-small-cell lung cancer. Coarse segmentation network is the first level, identifing the rough region of the tumor. In this network, according to the tissue structure distribution of the thoracic cavity where tumor is located, we designed a competition method between tumors and organs at risk, which can increase the proportion of the identified tumor covering the ground truth and reduce false identification. Fine segmentation network is the second level, carrying out precise segmentation on the results of the coarse level. These two networks are independent of each other during training. When they are used, morphological processing of small scale corrosion and large scale expansion are used for the coarse segmentation results, and the outcomes are sent to the fine segmentation part as input, so as to achieve the complementary advantages of the two networks.
RESULTS : In the experiment, CT images of 200 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer are used to train the network, and CT images of 60 patients are used to test. Finally, our method produced the Dice similarity coefficient of 0.78 ± 0.10.
CONCLUSIONS : The experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately segment the tumor with non-small-cell lung cancer, and can also provide support for clinical diagnosis and treatment. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Fan Enyu, Wang Qiusheng, Zhang Fuli, Lu Na, Chen Diandian, Jiang Huayong, Wang Yadi
2022-Dec-13
automatic segmentation, coarse segmentation, convolutional neural network, fine segmentation, non-small-cell lung cancer
