ARANet: Attention-based Residual Adversarial Network with Deep Supervision for Radiotherapy Dose Prediction of Cervical Cancer

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Hauptverfasser: Wen, Lu, Yin, Wenxia, Feng, Zhenghao, Wu, Xi, Xiong, Deng, Wang, Yan
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author Wen, Lu
Yin, Wenxia
Feng, Zhenghao
Wu, Xi
Xiong, Deng
Wang, Yan
author_facet Wen, Lu
Yin, Wenxia
Feng, Zhenghao
Wu, Xi
Xiong, Deng
Wang, Yan
contents Radiation therapy is the mainstay treatment for cervical cancer, and its ultimate goal is to ensure the planning target volume (PTV) reaches the prescribed dose while reducing dose deposition of organs-at-risk (OARs) as much as possible. To achieve these clinical requirements, the medical physicist needs to manually tweak the radiotherapy plan repeatedly in a trial-anderror manner until finding the optimal one in the clinic. However, such trial-and-error processes are quite time-consuming, and the quality of plans highly depends on the experience of the medical physicist. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Attentionbased Residual Adversarial Network with deep supervision, namely ARANet, to automatically predict the 3D dose distribution of cervical cancer. Specifically, given the computer tomography (CT) images and their corresponding segmentation masks of PTV and OARs, ARANet employs a prediction network to generate the dose maps. We also utilize a multi-scale residual attention module and deep supervision mechanism to enforce the prediction network to extract more valuable dose features while suppressing irrelevant information. Our proposed method is validated on an in-house dataset including 54 cervical cancer patients, and experimental results have demonstrated its obvious superiority compared to other state-of-the-art methods.
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spellingShingle ARANet: Attention-based Residual Adversarial Network with Deep Supervision for Radiotherapy Dose Prediction of Cervical Cancer
Wen, Lu
Yin, Wenxia
Feng, Zhenghao
Wu, Xi
Xiong, Deng
Wang, Yan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Radiation therapy is the mainstay treatment for cervical cancer, and its ultimate goal is to ensure the planning target volume (PTV) reaches the prescribed dose while reducing dose deposition of organs-at-risk (OARs) as much as possible. To achieve these clinical requirements, the medical physicist needs to manually tweak the radiotherapy plan repeatedly in a trial-anderror manner until finding the optimal one in the clinic. However, such trial-and-error processes are quite time-consuming, and the quality of plans highly depends on the experience of the medical physicist. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Attentionbased Residual Adversarial Network with deep supervision, namely ARANet, to automatically predict the 3D dose distribution of cervical cancer. Specifically, given the computer tomography (CT) images and their corresponding segmentation masks of PTV and OARs, ARANet employs a prediction network to generate the dose maps. We also utilize a multi-scale residual attention module and deep supervision mechanism to enforce the prediction network to extract more valuable dose features while suppressing irrelevant information. Our proposed method is validated on an in-house dataset including 54 cervical cancer patients, and experimental results have demonstrated its obvious superiority compared to other state-of-the-art methods.
title ARANet: Attention-based Residual Adversarial Network with Deep Supervision for Radiotherapy Dose Prediction of Cervical Cancer
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13981