TY - GEN
T1 - Automated framework for estimation of lung tumor locations in kV-CBCT images for tumor-based patient positioning in stereotactic lung body radiotherapy
AU - Yoshidome, Satoshi
AU - Arimura, Hidetaka
AU - Terashima, Koutarou
AU - Hirakawa, Masakazu
AU - Hirose, Taka Aki
AU - Fukunaga, Junichi
AU - Nakamura, Yasuhiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 SPIE.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Recently, image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems using kilovolt cone-beam computed tomography (kV-CBCT) images have become more common for highly accurate patient positioning in stereotactic lung body radiotherapy (SLBRT). However, current IGRT procedures are based on bone structures and subjective correction. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the proposed framework for automated estimation of lung tumor locations in kV-CBCT images for tumor-based patient positioning in SLBRT. Twenty clinical cases are considered, involving solid, pure ground-glass opacity (GGO), mixed GGO, solitary, and non-solitary tumor types. The proposed framework consists of four steps: (1) determination of a search region for tumor location detection in a kV-CBCT image; (2) extraction of a tumor template from a planning CT image; (3) preprocessing for tumor region enhancement (edge and tumor enhancement using a Sobel filter and a blob structure enhancement (BSE) filter, respectively); and (4) tumor location estimation based on a template-matching technique. The location errors in the original, edge-, and tumor-enhanced images were found to be 1.2 ± 0.7 mm, 4.2 ± 8.0 mm, and 2.7 ± 4.6 mm, respectively. The location errors in the original images of solid, pure GGO, mixed GGO, solitary, and non-solitary types of tumors were 1.2 ± 0.7 mm, 1.3 ± 0.9 mm, 0.4 ± 0.6 mm, 1.1 ± 0.8 mm and 1.0 ± 0.7 mm, respectively. These results suggest that the proposed framework is robust as regards automatic estimation of several types of tumor locations in kV-CBCT images for tumor-based patient positioning in SLBRT.
AB - Recently, image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems using kilovolt cone-beam computed tomography (kV-CBCT) images have become more common for highly accurate patient positioning in stereotactic lung body radiotherapy (SLBRT). However, current IGRT procedures are based on bone structures and subjective correction. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the proposed framework for automated estimation of lung tumor locations in kV-CBCT images for tumor-based patient positioning in SLBRT. Twenty clinical cases are considered, involving solid, pure ground-glass opacity (GGO), mixed GGO, solitary, and non-solitary tumor types. The proposed framework consists of four steps: (1) determination of a search region for tumor location detection in a kV-CBCT image; (2) extraction of a tumor template from a planning CT image; (3) preprocessing for tumor region enhancement (edge and tumor enhancement using a Sobel filter and a blob structure enhancement (BSE) filter, respectively); and (4) tumor location estimation based on a template-matching technique. The location errors in the original, edge-, and tumor-enhanced images were found to be 1.2 ± 0.7 mm, 4.2 ± 8.0 mm, and 2.7 ± 4.6 mm, respectively. The location errors in the original images of solid, pure GGO, mixed GGO, solitary, and non-solitary types of tumors were 1.2 ± 0.7 mm, 1.3 ± 0.9 mm, 0.4 ± 0.6 mm, 1.1 ± 0.8 mm and 1.0 ± 0.7 mm, respectively. These results suggest that the proposed framework is robust as regards automatic estimation of several types of tumor locations in kV-CBCT images for tumor-based patient positioning in SLBRT.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2253857
DO - 10.1117/12.2253857
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85020399625
T3 - Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
BT - Medical Imaging 2017
A2 - Schmidt, Taly Gilat
A2 - Lo, Joseph Y.
A2 - Flohr, Thomas G.
PB - SPIE
T2 - Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging
Y2 - 13 February 2017 through 16 February 2017
ER -