Abstract

PurposeTo develop a machine learning-based methodology for patient-specific radiation dosimetry in thoracic and abdomen CT. MethodsThree hundred and thirty-one thoracoabdominal radiotherapy-planning CT examinations with the respective organ/patient contours were collected retrospectively for the development and validation of segmentation 3D-UNets. Moreover, 97 diagnostic thoracic and 89 diagnostic abdomen CT examinations were collected retrospectively. For each of the diagnostic CT examinations, personalized MC dosimetry was performed. The data derived from MC simulations along with the respective CT data were used for the training and validation of a dose prediction deep neural network (DNN). An algorithm was developed to utilize the trained models and perform patient-specific organ dose estimates for thoracic and abdomen CT examinations. The doses estimated with the DNN were compared with the respective doses derived from MC simulations. A paired t-test was conducted between the DNN and MC results. Furthermore, the time efficiency of the proposed methodology was assessed. ResultsThe mean percentage differences (range) between DNN and MC dose estimates for the lungs, liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys were 7.2 % (0.2–24.1 %), 5.5 % (0.4–23.0 %), 7.9 % (0.6–22.3 %), 6.9 % (0.0–23.0 %) and 6.7 % (0.3–22.6 %) respectively. The differences between DNN and MC dose estimates were not significant (p-value = 0.12). Moreover, the mean processing time of the proposed workflow was 99 % lower than the respective time needed for MC-based dosimetry. ConclusionsThe proposed methodology can be used for rapid and accurate patient-specific dosimetry in chest and abdomen CT.

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