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ArticleMolecular imaging and biology2023

Manual Versus Artificial Intelligence-Based Segmentations as a Pre-processing Step in Whole-body PET Dosimetry Calculations.

Joyce van Sluis, Walter Noordzij, Elisabeth G E de Vries, Iris C Kok, Derk Jan A de Groot, Mathilde Jalving, Marjolijn N Lub-de Hooge, Adrienne H Brouwers, Ronald Boellaard

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Article in Molecular imaging and biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Joyce van SluisDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. j.van.sluis@umcg.nl.ORCID 0000-0003-1908-4518
Walter NoordzijDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Elisabeth G E de VriesDepartment of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Iris C KokDepartment of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Derk Jan A de GrootDepartment of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Mathilde JalvingDepartment of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Marjolijn N Lub-de HoogeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Adrienne H BrouwersDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Ronald BoellaardDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

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HORIZON EUROPE Reforming and enhancing the European Research and Innovation system 116106
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeAs novel tracers are continuously under development, it is important to obtain reliable radiation dose estimates to optimize the amount of activity that can be administered while keeping radiation burden within acceptable limits. Organ segmentation is required for quantification of specific uptake in organs of interest and whole-body dosimetry but is a time-consuming task which induces high interobserver variability. Therefore, we explored using manual segmentations versus an artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated segmentation tool as a pre-processing step for calculating whole-body effective doses to determine the influence of variability in volumetric whole-organ segmentations on dosimetry. PROCEDURES: PET/CT data of six patients undergoing imaging with

resultsData were acquired on days 2, 4, and 7 post-injection, resulting in 18 scans. Overall analysis time per scan was approximately 4 h for manual segmentations compared to ≤ 30 min using AI-based segmentations. Median Jaccard similarity coefficients between manual and AI-based segmentations varied from 0.05 (range 0.00-0.14) for the pancreas to 0.78 (range 0.74-0.82) for the lungs. Whole-body effective doses differed minimally for the six patients with a median difference in received mSv/MBq of 0.52% (range 0.15-1.95%).

conclusionThis pilot study suggests that whole-body dosimetry calculations can benefit from fast, automated AI-based whole organ segmentations.

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Positron-Emission TomographyPositron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyArtificial IntelligenceHumansPilot ProjectsRadiometryTissue DistributionArtificial intelligenceDosimetrySegmentation

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