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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2020

Dose Super-Resolution in Prostate Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Using Cascaded Deep Learning Networks.

Dong-Seok Shin, Kyeong-Hyeon Kim, Sang-Won Kang, Seong-Hee Kang, Jae-Sung Kim, Tae-Ho Kim, Dong-Su Kim, Woong Cho, Tae Suk Suh, Jin-Beom Chung

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Dong-Seok ShinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Kyeong-Hyeon KimDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Sang-Won KangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Seong-Hee KangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang, South Korea.
Jae-Sung KimDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang, South Korea.
Tae-Ho KimProton Therapy Center, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea.
Dong-Su KimKorea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea.
Woong ChoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
Tae Suk SuhDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Jin-Beom ChungDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang, South Korea.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis study proposes a cascaded network model for generating high-resolution doses (i.e., a 1 mm grid) from low-resolution doses (i.e., ≥3 mm grids) with reduced computation time.

methodsUsing the anisotropic analytical algorithm with three grid sizes (1, 3, and 5 mm) and the Acuros XB algorithm with two grid sizes (1 and 3 mm), dose distributions were calculated for volumetric modulated arc therapy plans for 73 prostate cancer patients. Our cascaded network model consisted of a hierarchically densely connected U-net (HD U-net) and a residual dense network (RDN), which were trained separately following a two-dimensional slice-by-slice procedure. The first network (HD U-net) predicted the downsampled high-resolution dose (generated through bicubic downsampling of the baseline high-resolution dose) using the low-resolution dose; subsequently, the second network (RDN) predicted the high-resolution dose from the output of the first network. Further, the predicted high-resolution dose was converted to its absolute value. We quantified the network performance using the spatial/dosimetric parameters (dice similarity coefficient, mean dose, maximum dose, minimum dose, homogeneity index, conformity index, and V

resultsThe average computation time to predict a high-resolution axial dose plane was <0.02 s. The dice similarity coefficient values for the predicted doses were closer to 1 when compared to those for the low-resolution doses. Most of the dosimetric parameters for the predicted doses agreed more closely with those for the baseline than for the low-resolution doses. In most of the parameters, no significant differences (p-value of >0.05) between the baseline and predicted doses were observed. The gamma passing rates for the predicted high-resolution does were higher than those for the low-resolution doses.

conclusionThe proposed model accurately predicted high-resolution doses for the same dose calculation algorithm. Our model uses only dose data as the input without additional data, which provides advantages of convenience to user over other dose super-resolution methods.

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cascaded networksdeep learningdose grid sizedose super-resolutionprostate volumetric modulated arc therapy

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PMCPMC7701297

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