Deformable registration-based segmentation of the bowel on Megavoltage CT during pelvic radiotherapy

Physica Medica

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 898-904

  Perna, L ^a   Sini, C ^a   Cozzarini, C ^a   Agnello, G ^a   Cattaneo, G M ^a   Hysing, L B ^b   Muren, L P ^c   Fiorino, C ^a   Calandrino, R ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bowel motion; Bowel segmentation; Deformable registration

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFECATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REGISTRATION; SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTESTINE; MALE; PELVIS; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; TIME FACTOR; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTESTINES; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PELVIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84995581917     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2016.06.009     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. [1] Cozzarini, C., Fiorino, C., Di Muzio, N., Alongi, F., Broggi, S., Cattaneo, M., et al. Significant reduction of acute toxicity following pelvic irradiation with Helical Tomotherapy in patients with localized prostate cancer. Radiother Oncol 84 (2007), 164–170.
2. [2] Alongi, F., Fiorino, C., Cozzarini, C., Broggi, S., Perna, L., Cattaneo, M., et al. IMRT significantly reduces acute toxicity of whole-pelvis irradiation in patients treated with post-operative adjuvant or salvage radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy. Radiother Oncol 93 (2009), 207–212.
3. [3] Fiorino, C., Alongi, F., Perna, L., Broggi, S., Cattaneo, M., Cozzarini, C., et al. Dose-volume relationships for acute bowel toxicity for patients treated with pelvic nodal irradiation for prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 75 (2009), 29–35.
4. [4] Perna, L., Alongi, F., Fiorino, C., Broggi, S., Cattaneo, M., Cozzarini, C., et al. Predictors of acute bowel toxicity in patients treated with IMRT whole pelvis irradiation after prostatectomy. Radiother Oncol 97 (2010), 71–75.
5. [5] Roeske, J.C., Bonta, D., Mell, L.K., Lujan, A.E., Mundt, A.J., A dosimetric analysis of acute gastrointestinal toxicity in women receiving intensity-modulated whole pelvic radiation therapy. Radiother Oncol 69 (2003), 201–207.
6. [6] Sanguineti, G., Endres, E.J., Sormani, M.P., Parker, B.C., Dosimetric predictors of diarrhea during radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Strahlenther Onkol 185 (2009), 390–396.
7. [7] Fiorino, C., Valdagni, R., Rancati, T., Sanguineti, G., Dose-volume effects for normal tissues in external radiotherapy: pelvis. Radiother Oncol 93 (2009), 153–167.
8. [8] Hysing, L.B., Skorpen, T.N., Alber, M., Fjellsbø, L.B., Helle, S.I., Muren, L.P., Influence of organ motion of conformal vs intensity-modulated pelvic radiotherapy of prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71 (2008), 1496–1503.
9. [9] Muren, L.P., Smaaland, R., Dahl, O., Organ motion, set-up variation and treatment margins in radical radiotherapy of urinary bladder cancer. Radiother Oncol 69 (2003), 291–304.
10. [10] Kvinnsland, Y., Muren, L.P., The impact of organ motion on intestine doses and complication probabilities in radiotherapy of bladder cancer. Radiother Oncol 76 (2005), 43–47.
11. [11] Hysing, L.B., Kvinnsland, Y., Lord, H., Muren, L.P., Planning organ at risk volume margins for organ motion of the intestine. Radiother Oncol 80 (2006), 349–354.
12. [12] Sanguineti, G., Little, M., Endres, E.J., Sormani, M.P., Parker BC comparison of three strategies to delineate the bowel for whole pelvis IMRT of prostate cancer. Radiother Oncol 88 (2008), 95–101.
13. [13] Hardcastle, N., Van, Elmpt W., De, Ruysscher D., Bzdusek, K., Tomé, W.A., Accuracy of deformable image registration for contour propagation in adaptive lung radiotherapy. Radiat Oncol, 8, 2013, 243.
14. [14] Thörnqvist, S., Petersen, J.B., Høyer, M., Bentzen, L.N., Muren, L.P., Propagation of target and organ at risk contours in radiotherapy of prostate cancer using deformable image registration. Acta Oncol 49 (2010), 1023–1032.
15. [15] Losnegard, A., Hysing, L.B., Muren, L.P., Hodneland, E., Lundervold, A., Semi-automated segmentation of the sigmoid and descending colon for radiotherapy planning using the fast marching method. Phys Med Biol 55:18 (2010), 5569–5584.
16. [16] Carillo, V., Cozzarini, C., Perna, L., Calandra, M., Gianolini, S., Rancati, T., et al. Contouring variability of the penile bulb on CT images: quantitative assessment using a generalized concordance index. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 84 (2012), 841–846.
17. [17] Barnhart, H., Haber, M., Song, J., Overall concordance correlation coefficient for evaluating agreement among multiple observers. Biometrics 58 (2002), 1020–1027.
18. [18] Dice, L.R., Measures of the amount of ecologic association between species. Ecology, 26, 1945, 297.
19. [19] Varadhan, R., Magome, T., Huj, S., Characterization of deformation and physical force in uniform low contrast anatomy and its impact on accuracy of deformable registration. Med Phys 43 (2016), 52–61.
20. [20] Nie, K., Chuang, C., Kirby, N., Braunstein, S., Pouliot, J., Site-specific deformable imaging registration algorithm selection using patient-based simulated deformations. Med Phys, 40, 2013, 041911.
21. [21] Kirby, N., Chuang, C., Ueda, U., Pouliot, J., The need for application-based adaptation of deformable image registration. Med Phys, 40, 2013, 011702.
22. [22] Di Muzio, N., Fiorino, C., Cozzarini, C., Alongi, F., Broggi, S., Mangili, P., et al. Phase I-II study of hypofractionated simultaneous integrated boost with tomotherapy for prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 74 (2009), 392–398.
23. [23] Meeks, S.L., Harmon, J.F. Jr, Langen, K.R., Willoughby, T.R., Wagner, T.H., Kupelian, P.A., Performance characterization of megavoltage computed imaging on helical thomotherapy unit. Med Phys 32 (2005), 2673–2681.
24. [24] Allozi, R., Li, X.A., White, J., Apte, A., Tai, A., Michalski, J.M., et al. Tools for consensus analysis of experts’ contours for radiotherapy structure definitions. Radiother Oncol 97 (2010), 572–578.
25. [25] Anders, L.C., Stieler, F., Siebenlist, K., Schäfer, J., Lohr, F., Wenz, F., Performance of an atlas-based autosegmentation software for delineation of target volumes for radiotherapy of breast and anorectal cancer. Radiother Oncol 102 (2012), 68–73.
26. [26] Thor, M., Andersen, E.S., Petersen, J.B.B., Sørensen, T.S., Noe, K.O., Tanderup, K., et al. Evaluation of an application for intensity-based deformable image registration and dose accumulation in radiotherapy. Acta Oncol 53 (2014), 1329–1336.
27. [27] Piper, J.W., Evaluation of a CT to cone-beam CT deformable registration algorithm. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 69 (2007), S418–S419.
28. [28] La Macchia, M., Fellin, F., Amichetti, M., Cianchetti, M., Gianolini, S., Vitali, P., et al. Systematic evaluation of three different commercial software solutions for automatic segmentation for adaptive therapy in head-and-neck, prostate and pleural cancer. Radiat Oncol, 7, 2012, 160.