Anjali Balagopal, Dan Nguyen, Howard Morgan, Yaochung Weng, Michael Dohopolski, Mu-Han Lin, Azar Sadeghnejad Barkousaraie, Yesenia Gonzalez, Aurelie Garant, Neil Desai, Raquibul Hannan, Steve Jiang
In post-operative radiotherapy for prostate cancer, precisely contouring the clinical target volume (CTV) to be irradiated is challenging, because the cancerous prostate gland has been surgically removed, so the CTV encompasses the microscopic spread of tumor cells, which cannot be visualized in clinical images like computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. In current clinical practice, physicians' segment CTVs manually based on their relationship with nearby organs and other clinical information, but this allows large inter-physician variability...
May 17, 2021: Medical Image Analysis