Author:
Ahn Sang Hee,Kim EunSook,Kim Chankyu,Cheon Wonjoong,Kim Myeongsoo,Lee Se Byeong,Lim Young Kyung,Kim Haksoo,Shin Dongho,Kim Dae Yong,Jeong Jong Hwi
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Patient-specific dose prediction improves the efficiency and quality of radiation treatment planning and reduces the time required to find the optimal plan. In this study, a patient-specific dose prediction model was developed for a left-sided breast clinical case using deep learning, and its performance was compared with that of conventional knowledge-based planning using RapidPlan™.
Methods
Patient-specific dose prediction was performed using a contour image of the planning target volume (PTV) and organs at risk (OARs) with a U-net-based modified dose prediction neural network. A database of 50 volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans for left-sided breast cancer patients was utilized to produce training and validation datasets. The dose prediction deep neural network (DpNet) feature weights of the previously learned convolution layers were applied to the test on a cohort of 10 test sets. With the same patient data set, dose prediction was performed for the 10 test sets after training in RapidPlan. The 3D dose distribution, absolute dose difference error, dose-volume histogram, 2D gamma index, and iso-dose dice similarity coefficient were used for quantitative evaluation of the dose prediction.
Results
The mean absolute error (MAE) and one standard deviation (SD) between the clinical and deep learning dose prediction models were 0.02 ± 0.04%, 0.01 ± 0.83%, 0.16 ± 0.82%, 0.52 ± 0.97, − 0.88 ± 1.83%, − 1.16 ± 2.58%, and − 0.97 ± 1.73% for D95%, Dmean in the PTV, and the OARs of the body, left breast, heart, left lung, and right lung, respectively, and those measured between the clinical and RapidPlan dose prediction models were 0.02 ± 0.14%, 0.87 ± 0.63%, − 0.29 ± 0.98%, 1.30 ± 0.86%, − 0.32 ± 1.10%, 0.12 ± 2.13%, and − 1.74 ± 1.79, respectively.
Conclusions
In this study, a deep learning method for dose prediction was developed and was demonstrated to accurately predict patient-specific doses for left-sided breast cancer. Using the deep learning framework, the efficiency and accuracy of the dose prediction were compared to those of RapidPlan. The doses predicted by deep learning were superior to the results of the RapidPlan-generated VMAT plan.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Oncology
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