Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Deep learning empowered volume delineation of whole-body organs-at-risk for accelerated radiotherapy

  • Feng Shi,
  • Weigang Hu,
  • Jiaojiao Wu,
  • Miaofei Han,
  • Jiazhou Wang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Qing Zhou,
  • Jingjie Zhou,
  • Ying Wei,
  • Ying Shao,
  • Yanbo Chen,
  • Yue Yu,
  • Xiaohuan Cao,
  • Yiqiang Zhan,
  • Xiang Sean Zhou,
  • Yaozong Gao,
  • Dinggang Shen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34257-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Volume delineation of organs-at risk (OARs) and target tumors is an indispensable process for creating radiotherapy treatment planning. Herein, the authors propose a lightweight deep learning framework to empower the rapid and precise volume delineation of whole-body OARs and target tumors.