Clinical utility of convolutional neural networks for treatment planning in radiotherapy for spinal metastases

Background and purpose: Spine delineation is essential for high quality radiotherapy treatment planning of spinal metastases. However, manual delineation is time-consuming and prone to interobserver variability. Automatic spine delineation, especially using deep learning, has shown promising results...

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Main Authors: Sebastiaan R.S. Arends, Mark H.F. Savenije, Wietse S.C. Eppinga, Joanne M. van der Velden, Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, Joost J.C. Verhoeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405631622000094