使用合成MRI进行高剂量前列腺支架疗法前列腺细分的精度治疗规划
Hyejoo Kang1, Alexander R Podgorsak1, Bhanu Prasad Venkatesulu1
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Stritch School of Medicine, Cardinal Bernadin Cancer Center, Loyola University Chicago, 2160 S. 1st Ave, Maywood, IL, United States of America.
Physics in medicine and biology
|July 11, 2023
概括
一个新的生成对抗网络 (GAN),PxCGAN,从CT扫描中创建合成MRI (sMRI),以在高剂量率支架疗法中进行前列腺细分. 这种方法实现了与真实MRI可比的细分精度,即使MRI可用性有限.
科学领域:
- 放射学 放射学是一门学科.
- 医疗成像医学成像
- 人工智能的人工智能
背景情况:
- 计算机断层扫描 (CT) 和磁共振成像 (MRI) 对于高剂量率 (HDR) 前列腺胸膜疗法至关重要.
- 磁力共振成像对于前列腺细分至关重要,但访问可能是有限的.
- 从CT生成合成MRI (sMRI) 的方法可以克服MRI访问的限制.
研究的目的:
- 开发一个新的生成对抗网络 (GAN),PxCGAN,用于从CT扫描生成sMRI.
- 评估生成的sMRI的图像质量和前列腺细分精度.
- 将PxCGAN与Pix2Pix和CycleGAN等现有方法进行比较.
主要方法:
- 一种混合GAN,PxCGAN,被训练在58对的CT-MRI数据集上,来自HDR前列腺支骨疗法患者.
- 使用20个独立数据集的平均绝对误差 (MAE),平均平方误差 (MSE),峰值信号对噪声比 (PSNR) 和结构相似性指数 (SSIM) 来评估图像质量.
- 使用子相似系数 (DSC),豪斯多夫距离 (HD) 和平均表面距离 (MSD) 对专家划分进行评估.
主要成果:
- 与CT相比,PxCGAN产生了具有增强软组织对比度的sMRI.
- 与Pix2Pix和CycleGAN相比,PxCGAN表现出优越的PSNR和SSIM (p < 0.01).与Px2Pix和CycleGAN相比,PxCGAN表现出优越的PSNR和SSIM (p < 0.01).与Px2Pix和CycleGAN相比,PxCGAN表现出优越的PSNR和SSIM (p < 0.01).与Px2Pix和CycleGAN相比,PxCGAN表现出优越的PSNR和SSIM.
- 通过sMRI进行前列腺细分,可以在真实MRI (rMRI) 的观察者间变化范围内获得准确性.
结论:
- PxCGAN有效地从CT扫描中产生sMRI,改善前列腺成像软组织对比度.
- 使用sMRI进行前列腺细分的准确性与使用真实MRI实现的准确性相当,即使考虑到观察者之间的变化.
- 这种基于GAN的方法提供了一个可行的解决方案,用于精确的前列腺细分在MRI访问是有限的HDR臂疗法时.
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