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@ARTICLE{Menten:141875,
author = {M. J. Menten and M. F. Fast and A. Wetscherek and C. M.
Rank and M. Kachelrieß$^*$ and D. J. Collins and S. Nill
and U. Oelfke},
title = {{T}he impact of 2{D} cine {MR} imaging parameters on
automated tumor and organ localization for {MR}-guided
real-time adaptive radiotherapy.},
journal = {Physics in medicine and biology},
volume = {63},
number = {23},
issn = {1361-6560},
address = {Bristol},
publisher = {IOP Publ.},
reportid = {DKFZ-2018-02132},
pages = {235005},
year = {2018},
abstract = {2D cine MR imaging may be utilized to monitor rapidly
moving tumors and organs-at-risk for real-time adaptive
radiotherapy. This study systematically investigates the
impact of geometric imaging parameters on the ability of 2D
cine MR imaging to guide template-matching-driven
autocontouring of lung tumors and abdominal organs.
Abdominal 4D MR images were acquired of six healthy
volunteers and thoracic 4D MR images were obtained of eight
lung cancer patients. At each breathing phase of the images,
the left kidney and gallbladder or lung tumor, respectively,
were outlined as volumes of interest. These images and
contours were used to create artificial 2D cine MR images,
while simultaneously serving as 3D ground truth. We explored
the impact of five different imaging parameters (pixel size,
slice thickness, imaging plane orientation, number and
relative alignment of images as well as strategies to create
training images). For each possible combination of imaging
parameters, we generated artificial 2D cine MR images as
training and test images. A template-matching algorithm used
the training images to determine the tumor or organ position
in the test images. Subsequently, a 3D base contour was
shifted to the determined position and compared to the
ground truth via centroid distance and Dice similarity
coefficient. The median centroid distance between adapted
and ground truth contours was 1.56 mm for the kidney,
3.81 mm for the gallbladder and 1.03 mm for the lung
tumor (median Dice similarity coefficient: 0.95, 0.72 and
0.93). We observed that a decrease in image resolution led
to a modest decrease in localization accuracy, especially
for the small gallbladder. However, for all volumes of
interest localization accuracy varied substantially more
between subjects than due to the different imaging
parameters. Automated tumor and organ localization using 2D
cine MR imaging and template-matching-based autocontouring
is robust against variation of geometric imaging parameters.
Future work and optimization efforts of 2D cine MR imaging
for real-time adaptive radiotherapy is needed to
characterize the influence of sequence- and anatomical
site-specific imaging contrast.},
cin = {E020 / E025},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E020-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)E025-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Imaging and radiooncology (POF3-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30465542},
doi = {10.1088/1361-6560/aae74d},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/141875},
}