Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Comprehensive and clinically accurate head and neck cancer organs-at-risk delineation on a multi-institutional study

  • Xianghua Ye,
  • Dazhou Guo,
  • Jia Ge,
  • Senxiang Yan,
  • Yi Xin,
  • Yuchen Song,
  • Yongheng Yan,
  • Bing-shen Huang,
  • Tsung-Min Hung,
  • Zhuotun Zhu,
  • Ling Peng,
  • Yanping Ren,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Gong Zhang,
  • Mengyuan Mao,
  • Xiaohua Chen,
  • Zhongjie Lu,
  • Wenxiang Li,
  • Yuzhen Chen,
  • Lingyun Huang,
  • Jing Xiao,
  • Adam P. Harrison,
  • Le Lu,
  • Chien-Yu Lin,
  • Dakai Jin,
  • Tsung-Ying Ho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33178-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Accurate organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is critical to reduce the radiotherapy post-treatment complications. Here, the authors develop an automated OAR segmentation system to delineate a comprehensive set of 42 H&N OARs.