Evaluating the Segmentation Performance of Gross Volume Tumor in Cervical Cancer Using MRI Images

Nazar Zaki, Anusuya Krishnan, Rafat Damseh, Wenjian Qin, Ayham Zaitouny, Isaias Ghebrehiwet

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Abstract

Cervical Cancer (CC) is the most prevalent gynecologic malignancy worldwide. Tumor segmentation in CC is a crucial step for radiotherapy treatment and planning. The clinical practice involves laborious slice-by-slice segmentation of the primary tumor using simultaneous assessments from several image modalities, and ignores spatial ambiguity in tumor delineation. This work evaluates the performance of a state-of-the-art Landing AI for automated 3D medical image segmentation applied to Gross Tumor Volume (GTV) in CC from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans. Our work provides a novel in-house labeled dataset with a systematic assessment of the segmented lesions after network training on various voxel spacing MRI images. The segmentation performance was assessed using the dice coefficient. We demonstrated that training on MRI images to optimize Landing AI achieves an improved dice score of 0.92, outperforming other MRI models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication21st IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2024
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350356632
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event21st IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2024 - Natal, Brazil
Duration: Aug 27 2024Aug 29 2024

Publication series

Name21st IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2024

Conference

Conference21st IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2024
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityNatal
Period8/27/248/29/24

Keywords

  • Cervical cancer
  • Deep learning
  • Landing AI
  • Medical image segmentation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Health Informatics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Computational Mathematics

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