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author Huijben, Evi M. C.
Terpstra, Maarten L.
Galapon, Arthur Jr.
Pai, Suraj
Thummerer, Adrian
Koopmans, Peter
Afonso, Manya
van Eijnatten, Maureen
Gurney-Champion, Oliver
Chen, Zeli
Zhang, Yiwen
Zheng, Kaiyi
Li, Chuanpu
Pang, Haowen
Ye, Chuyang
Wang, Runqi
Song, Tao
Fan, Fuxin
Qiu, Jingna
Huang, Yixing
Ha, Juhyung
Park, Jong Sung
Alain-Beaudoin, Alexandra
Bériault, Silvain
Yu, Pengxin
Guo, Hongbin
Huang, Zhanyao
Li, Gengwan
Zhang, Xueru
Fan, Yubo
Liu, Han
Xin, Bowen
Nicolson, Aaron
Zhong, Lujia
Deng, Zhiwei
Müller-Franzes, Gustav
Khader, Firas
Li, Xia
Zhang, Ye
Hémon, Cédric
Boussot, Valentin
Zhang, Zhihao
Wang, Long
Bai, Lu
Wang, Shaobin
Mus, Derk
Kooiman, Bram
Sargeant, Chelsea A. H.
Henderson, Edward G. A.
Kondo, Satoshi
Kasai, Satoshi
Karimzadeh, Reza
Ibragimov, Bulat
Helfer, Thomas
Dafflon, Jessica
Chen, Zijie
Wang, Enpei
Perko, Zoltan
Maspero, Matteo
author_facet Huijben, Evi M. C.
Terpstra, Maarten L.
Galapon, Arthur Jr.
Pai, Suraj
Thummerer, Adrian
Koopmans, Peter
Afonso, Manya
van Eijnatten, Maureen
Gurney-Champion, Oliver
Chen, Zeli
Zhang, Yiwen
Zheng, Kaiyi
Li, Chuanpu
Pang, Haowen
Ye, Chuyang
Wang, Runqi
Song, Tao
Fan, Fuxin
Qiu, Jingna
Huang, Yixing
Ha, Juhyung
Park, Jong Sung
Alain-Beaudoin, Alexandra
Bériault, Silvain
Yu, Pengxin
Guo, Hongbin
Huang, Zhanyao
Li, Gengwan
Zhang, Xueru
Fan, Yubo
Liu, Han
Xin, Bowen
Nicolson, Aaron
Zhong, Lujia
Deng, Zhiwei
Müller-Franzes, Gustav
Khader, Firas
Li, Xia
Zhang, Ye
Hémon, Cédric
Boussot, Valentin
Zhang, Zhihao
Wang, Long
Bai, Lu
Wang, Shaobin
Mus, Derk
Kooiman, Bram
Sargeant, Chelsea A. H.
Henderson, Edward G. A.
Kondo, Satoshi
Kasai, Satoshi
Karimzadeh, Reza
Ibragimov, Bulat
Helfer, Thomas
Dafflon, Jessica
Chen, Zijie
Wang, Enpei
Perko, Zoltan
Maspero, Matteo
contents Radiation therapy plays a crucial role in cancer treatment, necessitating precise delivery of radiation to tumors while sparing healthy tissues over multiple days. Computed tomography (CT) is integral for treatment planning, offering electron density data crucial for accurate dose calculations. However, accurately representing patient anatomy is challenging, especially in adaptive radiotherapy, where CT is not acquired daily. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides superior soft-tissue contrast. Still, it lacks electron density information while cone beam CT (CBCT) lacks direct electron density calibration and is mainly used for patient positioning. Adopting MRI-only or CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy eliminates the need for CT planning but presents challenges. Synthetic CT (sCT) generation techniques aim to address these challenges by using image synthesis to bridge the gap between MRI, CBCT, and CT. The SynthRAD2023 challenge was organized to compare synthetic CT generation methods using multi-center ground truth data from 1080 patients, divided into two tasks: 1) MRI-to-CT and 2) CBCT-to-CT. The evaluation included image similarity and dose-based metrics from proton and photon plans. The challenge attracted significant participation, with 617 registrations and 22/17 valid submissions for tasks 1/2. Top-performing teams achieved high structural similarity indices (>0.87/0.90) and gamma pass rates for photon (>98.1%/99.0%) and proton (>97.3%/97.0%) plans. However, no significant correlation was found between image similarity metrics and dose accuracy, emphasizing the need for dose evaluation when assessing the clinical applicability of sCT. SynthRAD2023 facilitated the investigation and benchmarking of sCT generation techniques, providing insights for developing MRI-only and CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy.
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spellingShingle Generating Synthetic Computed Tomography for Radiotherapy: SynthRAD2023 Challenge Report
Huijben, Evi M. C.
Terpstra, Maarten L.
Galapon, Arthur Jr.
Pai, Suraj
Thummerer, Adrian
Koopmans, Peter
Afonso, Manya
van Eijnatten, Maureen
Gurney-Champion, Oliver
Chen, Zeli
Zhang, Yiwen
Zheng, Kaiyi
Li, Chuanpu
Pang, Haowen
Ye, Chuyang
Wang, Runqi
Song, Tao
Fan, Fuxin
Qiu, Jingna
Huang, Yixing
Ha, Juhyung
Park, Jong Sung
Alain-Beaudoin, Alexandra
Bériault, Silvain
Yu, Pengxin
Guo, Hongbin
Huang, Zhanyao
Li, Gengwan
Zhang, Xueru
Fan, Yubo
Liu, Han
Xin, Bowen
Nicolson, Aaron
Zhong, Lujia
Deng, Zhiwei
Müller-Franzes, Gustav
Khader, Firas
Li, Xia
Zhang, Ye
Hémon, Cédric
Boussot, Valentin
Zhang, Zhihao
Wang, Long
Bai, Lu
Wang, Shaobin
Mus, Derk
Kooiman, Bram
Sargeant, Chelsea A. H.
Henderson, Edward G. A.
Kondo, Satoshi
Kasai, Satoshi
Karimzadeh, Reza
Ibragimov, Bulat
Helfer, Thomas
Dafflon, Jessica
Chen, Zijie
Wang, Enpei
Perko, Zoltan
Maspero, Matteo
Medical Physics
Radiation therapy plays a crucial role in cancer treatment, necessitating precise delivery of radiation to tumors while sparing healthy tissues over multiple days. Computed tomography (CT) is integral for treatment planning, offering electron density data crucial for accurate dose calculations. However, accurately representing patient anatomy is challenging, especially in adaptive radiotherapy, where CT is not acquired daily. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides superior soft-tissue contrast. Still, it lacks electron density information while cone beam CT (CBCT) lacks direct electron density calibration and is mainly used for patient positioning. Adopting MRI-only or CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy eliminates the need for CT planning but presents challenges. Synthetic CT (sCT) generation techniques aim to address these challenges by using image synthesis to bridge the gap between MRI, CBCT, and CT. The SynthRAD2023 challenge was organized to compare synthetic CT generation methods using multi-center ground truth data from 1080 patients, divided into two tasks: 1) MRI-to-CT and 2) CBCT-to-CT. The evaluation included image similarity and dose-based metrics from proton and photon plans. The challenge attracted significant participation, with 617 registrations and 22/17 valid submissions for tasks 1/2. Top-performing teams achieved high structural similarity indices (>0.87/0.90) and gamma pass rates for photon (>98.1%/99.0%) and proton (>97.3%/97.0%) plans. However, no significant correlation was found between image similarity metrics and dose accuracy, emphasizing the need for dose evaluation when assessing the clinical applicability of sCT. SynthRAD2023 facilitated the investigation and benchmarking of sCT generation techniques, providing insights for developing MRI-only and CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy.
title Generating Synthetic Computed Tomography for Radiotherapy: SynthRAD2023 Challenge Report
topic Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08447