ArticleAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2011
A pilot prospective feasibility study of organ-at-risk definition using Target Contour Testing/Instructional Computer Software (TaCTICS), a training and evaluation platform for radiotherapy target delineation.
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- Consequences of anorectal cancer atlas implementation in the cooperative group setting: radiobiologic analysis of a prospective randomized in silico target delineation study.Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology · 2014Trial
- Remote Contouring and Virtual Review during the COVID-19 Pandemic (RECOVR-COVID19): Results of a Quality Improvement Initiative for Virtual Resident Training in Radiation Oncology.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2021Article
- A Comparison of Lung Nodule Segmentation Algorithms: Methods and Results from a Multi-institutional Study.Journal of digital imaging · 2016Article
- Quantitative assessment of target delineation variability for thymic cancers: Agreement evaluation of a prospective segmentation challenge.Journal of radiation oncology · 2016Article
- Auto-segmentation of the brachial plexus assessed with TaCTICS - a software platform for rapid multiple-metric quantitative evaluation of contours.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2015Article
- Development of a software for quantitative evaluation radiotherapy target and organ-at-risk segmentation comparison.Journal of digital imaging · 2014Article
- Prospective assessment of an atlas-based intervention combined with real-time software feedback in contouring lymph node levels and organs-at-risk in the head and neck: Quantitative assessment of conformance to expert delineation.Practical radiation oncologyArticle
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Abstract
Target volume delineation is a critical, but time-consuming step in the creation of radiation therapy plans used in the treatment of many types of cancer. However, variability in target volume definitions can introduce substantial differences in resulting doses to tumors and critical structures. We developed TaCTICS, a web-based educational training software application targeted towards non-expert users. We report on a small, prospective study to evaluate the utility of this online tool in improving conformance of regions-of-interest (ROIs) with a reference set. Eight residents contoured a set of structures for a head-and-neck cancer case. Subsequently, they were provided access to TaCTICS as well as contouring atlases to allow evaluation of their contours in reference to other users as well as reference ROIs. The residents then contoured a second case using these resources. Volume overlap metrics between the users showed a substantial improvement following the intervention. Additionally, 66% of users reported that they found TaCTICS to be a useful educational tool and all participants reported they would like to use TaCTICS to track their contouring skills over the course of their residency.
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