Cristina Suárez-Mejías1, José A Pérez-Carrasco2, Carmen Serrano3, José L López-Guerra4, Tomás Gómez-Cía5, Carlos L Parra-Calderón1, Begoña Acha3. 1. Technological Innovation Group, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Avda Manuel Siurot, s/n, 41013, Sevilla, Spain. 2. Signal Theory and Communications Department, University of Seville, Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain. jcarrasco79@gmail.com. 3. Signal Theory and Communications Department, University of Seville, Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain. 4. Oncology Unit, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Avda Manuel Siurot, s/n, 41013, Sevilla, Spain. 5. Surgery Unit, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Avda Manuel Siurot, s/n, 41013, Sevilla, Spain.
Abstract
PURPOSE: In 2005, an application for surgical planning called AYRA[Formula: see text] was designed and validated by different surgeons and engineers at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Seville (Spain). However, the segmentation methods included in AYRA and in other surgical planning applications are not able to segment accurately tumors that appear in soft tissue. The aims of this paper are to offer an exhaustive validation of an accurate semiautomatic segmentation tool to delimitate retroperitoneal tumors from CT images and to aid physicians in planning both radiotherapy doses and surgery. METHODS: A panel of 6 experts manually segmented 11 cases of tumors, and the segmentation results were compared exhaustively with: the results provided by a surgical planning tool (AYRA), the segmentations obtained using a radiotherapy treatment planning system (Pinnacle[Formula: see text]), the segmentation results obtained by a group of experts in the delimitation of retroperitoneal tumors and the segmentation results using the algorithm under validation. RESULTS: 11 cases of retroperitoneal tumors were tested. The proposed algorithm provided accurate results regarding the segmentation of the tumor. Moreover, the algorithm requires minimal computational time-an average of 90.5% less than that required when manually contouring the same tumor. CONCLUSION: A method developed for the semiautomatic selection of retroperitoneal tumor has been validated in depth. AYRA, as well as other surgical and radiotherapy planning tools, could be greatly improved by including this algorithm.
PURPOSE: In 2005, an application for surgical planning called AYRA[Formula: see text] was designed and validated by different surgeons and engineers at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Seville (Spain). However, the segmentation methods included in AYRA and in other surgical planning applications are not able to segment accurately tumors that appear in soft tissue. The aims of this paper are to offer an exhaustive validation of an accurate semiautomatic segmentation tool to delimitate retroperitoneal tumors from CT images and to aid physicians in planning both radiotherapy doses and surgery. METHODS: A panel of 6 experts manually segmented 11 cases of tumors, and the segmentation results were compared exhaustively with: the results provided by a surgical planning tool (AYRA), the segmentations obtained using a radiotherapy treatment planning system (Pinnacle[Formula: see text]), the segmentation results obtained by a group of experts in the delimitation of retroperitoneal tumors and the segmentation results using the algorithm under validation. RESULTS: 11 cases of retroperitoneal tumors were tested. The proposed algorithm provided accurate results regarding the segmentation of the tumor. Moreover, the algorithm requires minimal computational time-an average of 90.5% less than that required when manually contouring the same tumor. CONCLUSION: A method developed for the semiautomatic selection of retroperitoneal tumor has been validated in depth. AYRA, as well as other surgical and radiotherapy planning tools, could be greatly improved by including this algorithm.
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