Organs-at-risk contouring on head CT for RT planning using 3D slicer-A preliminary study

N. Jegou (1, 2) , F. Desaize (1, 2) , G. Lee (1) , M. Bajger (1) , Oscar Acosta (3) , J. Leseur (4) , R. de Crevoisier (4) , M. Caon (5)

1 Flinders University [Adelaide, Australia]
2 ESIR - Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Rennes [Rennes]
3 LTSI - Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image
4 CRLCC - CRLCC Eugène Marquis
5 University of South Australia [Adelaide]

In radiotherapy, computed tomography (CT) images are typically used for radiation treatment planning. Accurate segmentation of radiation sensitive healthy tissues, organs-atrisk (OARs), is important for radiation treatment planning for brain tumor. 3D Slicer has been applied in many medical applications including tumor segmentation on head MR images. However, to the best of our knowledge, there have been no studies using 3D Slicer for segmenting OARs on head CT images. This preliminary study evaluates the segmentation of seven OARs on head CTs using 3D Slicer. Results are comparable to state-ofthe- art approaches but a larger dataset is required to verify the results. © 2019 IEEE.

Keywords: 3D-Slicer; Brain-Tumor; Computed-tomography-(CT); Glioblastoma; Organ-at-risk; Radiotherapy; RT-planning; Segmentation

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Bioengineering

N. Jegou, F. Desaize, G. Lee, M. Bajger, Oscar Acosta, et al.. Organs-at-risk contouring on head CT for RT planning using 3D slicer-A preliminary study. 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE 2019, Oct 2019, Athens, Greece. pp.503-506, ⟨10.1109/BIBE.2019.00097⟩. ⟨hal-02472480⟩