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Deep Learning for automatic head and neck lymph node level delineation

2022-08-28 13:58:54
Thomas Weissmann, Yixing Huang, Stefan Fischer, Johannes Roesch, Sina Mansoorian, Horacio Ayala Gaona, Antoniu-Oreste Gostian, Markus Hecht, Sebastian Lettmaier, Lisa Deloch, Benjamin Frey, Udo S. Gaipl, Luitpold V. Distel, Andreas Maier, Heinrich Iro, Sabine Semrau, Christoph Bert, Rainer Fietkau, Florian Putz

Abstract

Background: Deep learning-based head and neck lymph node level (HN_LNL) autodelineation is of high relevance to radiotherapy research and clinical treatment planning but still understudied in academic literature. Methods: An expert-delineated cohort of 35 planning CTs was used for training of an nnU-net 3D-fullres/2D-ensemble model for autosegmentation of 20 different HN_LNL. Validation was performed in an independent test set (n=20). In a completely blinded evaluation, 3 clinical experts rated the quality of deep learning autosegmentations in a head-to-head comparison with expert-created contours. For a subgroup of 10 cases, intraobserver variability was compared to deep learning autosegmentation performance. The effect of autocontour consistency with CT slice plane orientation on geometric accuracy and expert rating was investigated. Results: Mean blinded expert rating per level was significantly better for deep learning segmentations with CT slice plane adjustment than for expert-created contours (81.0 vs. 79.6, p<0.001), but deep learning segmentations without slice plane adjustment were rated significantly worse than expert-created contours (77.2 vs. 79.6, p<0.001). Geometric accuracy of deep learning segmentations was non-different from intraobserver variability (mean Dice per level, 0.78 vs. 0.77, p=0.064) with variance in accuracy between levels being improved (p<0.001). Clinical significance of contour consistency with CT slice plane orientation was not represented by geometric accuracy metrics (Dice, 0.78 vs. 0.78, p=0.572) Conclusions: We show that a nnU-net 3D-fullres/2D-ensemble model can be used for highly accurate autodelineation of HN_LNL using only a limited training dataset that is ideally suited for large-scale standardized autodelineation of HN_LNL in the research setting. Geometric accuracy metrics are only an imperfect surrogate for blinded expert rating.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13224

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.13224.pdf


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