论文信息 - Deep learning for automatic tumour segmentation in PET/CT images of patients with head and neck cancers

Deep learning for automatic tumour segmentation in PET/CT images of patients with head and neck cancers

An automatic segmentation algorithm for delineation of the gross tumour volume and pathologic lymph nodes of head and neck cancers in PET/CT images is described. The proposed algorithm is based on a convolutional neural network using the U-Net architecture. Several model hyperparameters were explored and the model performance in terms of the Dice similarity coefficient was validated on images from 15 patients. A separate test set consisting of images from 40 patients was used to assess the generalisability of the algorithm. The performance on the test set showed close-to-oncologist level delineations as measured by the Dice coefficient (CT: $0.65 \pm 0.17$, PET: $0.71 \pm 0.12$, PET/CT: $0.75 \pm 0.12$).

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