Abdominal, multi-organ, auto-contouring method for online adaptive magnetic resonance guided radiotherapy: An intelligent, multi-level fusion approach

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Highlights:

• MR-ART consists of daily modification of the radiation therapy plan.

• Manual contouring is laborious, subject to variability and inconvenient for MR-ART.

• An auto-contouring method based on the human processing model is proposed.

• The algorithm couples multi-level top-down and bottom-up information.

• To our knowledge, this is the first automated contouring approach for T1 MR-ART.

摘要

•MR-ART consists of daily modification of the radiation therapy plan.•Manual contouring is laborious, subject to variability and inconvenient for MR-ART.•An auto-contouring method based on the human processing model is proposed.•The algorithm couples multi-level top-down and bottom-up information.•To our knowledge, this is the first automated contouring approach for T1 MR-ART.

论文关键词:Auto-Contouring,Machine learning,Adaptive radiotherapy,Image-guided,Radiotherapy

论文评审过程:Received 16 June 2017, Revised 6 June 2018, Accepted 6 July 2018, Available online 24 July 2018, Version of Record 23 August 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.07.001