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ArticlePhysics and imaging in radiation oncology2024

Minimum imaging dose for deep learning-based pelvic synthetic computed tomography generation from cone beam images.

Yan Chi Ivy Chan, Minglun Li, Adrian Thummerer, Katia Parodi, Claus Belka, Christopher Kurz, Guillaume Landry

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Article in Physics and imaging in radiation oncology, 2024. 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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Yan Chi Ivy ChanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany.
Minglun LiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany.
Adrian ThummererDepartment of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany.
Katia ParodiDepartment of Medical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Garching b. München 85748, Germany.
Claus BelkaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany.
Christopher KurzDepartment of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany.
Guillaume LandryDepartment of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany.

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Background and purpose: Daily cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in image-guided radiotherapy administers radiation exposure and subjects patients to secondary cancer risk. Reducing imaging dose remains challenging as image quality deteriorates. We investigated three imaging dose levels by reducing projections and correcting images using two deep learning algorithms, aiming at identifying the lowest achievable imaging dose. Materials and methods: CBCTs were reconstructed with 100%, 25%, 15% and 10% projections. Models were trained (30), validated (3) and tested (8) with prostate cancer patient datasets. We optimized and compared the performance of 1) a cycle generative adversarial network (cycleGAN) with residual connection and 2) a contrastive unpaired translation network (CUT) to generate synthetic computed tomography (sCT) from reduced imaging dose CBCTs. Volumetric modulated arc therapy plans were optimized on a reference intensity-corrected full dose CBCT Results: All sCTs achieved average mean absolute mean absolute error/structural similarity index measure/peak signal-to-noise ratio of Conclusion: sCTs based on different CBCT doses using cycleGAN and CUT were investigated. Based on segmentation accuracy, 25

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Contrastive unpaired translationcycleGANDeep learningGenerative networksLow dose CBCTOnline adaptationSynthetic CT

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PMCPMC11519690

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