Patient-specific three-dimensional image reconstruction from a single X-ray projection using a convolutional neural network for on-line radiotherapy applications.
Physics and imaging in radiation oncology(2023)
摘要
Radiotherapy is commonly chosen to treat thoracic and abdominal cancers. However, irradiating mobile tumors accurately is extremely complex due to the organs' breathing-related movements. Different methods have been studied and developed to treat mobile tumors properly. The combination of X-ray projection acquisition and implanted markers is used to locate the tumor in two dimensions (2D) but does not provide three-dimensional (3D) information. The aim of this work is to reconstruct a high-quality 3D computed tomography (3D-CT) image based on a single X-ray projection to locate the tumor in 3D without the need for implanted markers. Nine patients treated for a lung or liver cancer in radiotherapy were studied. For each patient, a data augmentation tool was used to create 500 new 3D-CT images from the planning four-dimensional computed tomography (4D-CT). For each 3D-CT, the corresponding digitally reconstructed radiograph was generated, and the 500 2D images were input into a convolutional neural network that then learned to reconstruct the 3D-CT. The dice score coefficient, normalized root mean squared error and difference between the ground-truth and the predicted 3D-CT images were computed and used as metrics. Metrics' averages across all patients were 85.5% and 96.2% for the gross target volume, 0.04 and 0.45 Hounsfield unit (HU), respectively. The proposed method allows reconstruction of a 3D-CT image from a single digitally reconstructed radiograph that could be used in real-time for better tumor localization and improved treatment of mobile tumors without the need for implanted markers.
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radiotherapy,convolutional neural network,patient-specific,three-dimensional,x-ray,on-line
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