Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation Using Pre-RT MRI Scans and Cascaded DualUNet
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Head and NeckTumor Segmentation for MR-Guided Applications - 1st MICCAI Challenge, HNTS-MRG2024 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, pp. 191-203, Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Volume 15273 LNCS
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Accurate segmentation of the primary gross tumor volumes and metastatic lymph nodes in head and neck cancer is crucial for radiotherapy but remains challenging due to high interobserver variabil- ity, highlighting a need for an effective auto-segmentation tool. Tumor delineation is used throughout radiotherapy for treatment planning, ini- tially for pre-radiotherapy (pre-RT) MRI scans followed-up by mid- radiotherapy (mid-RT) during the treatment. For the pre-RT task, we propose a dual-stage 3D UNet approach using cascaded neural networks for progressive accuracy refinement. The first-stage models produce an initial binary segmentation, which is then refined with an ensemble of second-stage models for a multiclass segmentation. In Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation for MR-Guided Applications (HNTS-MRG) 2024 Task 1, we utilize a dataset consisting of pre-RT and mid-RT T2-weighted MRI scans. The method is trained using 5-fold cross-validation and eval- uated as an ensemble of five coarse models and ten refinement models. Our approach (team FinoxyAI) achieves a mean aggregated Dice simi- larity coefficient of 0.737 on the test set. Moreover, with this metric, our dual-stage approach highlights consistent improvement in segmentation performance across all folds compared to a single-stage segmentation method.Description
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Saukkoriipi, M, Sahlsten, J, Jaskari, J, Al-Tahmeesschi, A, Ruotsalainen, L & Kaski, K 2025, Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation Using Pre-RT MRI Scans and Cascaded DualUNet. in K A Wahid, M A Naser, C Dede & C D Fuller (eds), Head and NeckTumor Segmentation for MR-Guided Applications - 1st MICCAI Challenge, HNTS-MRG2024 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 15273 LNCS, Springer, pp. 191-203, Challenge on Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation for MRI-Guided Applications, Marrakesh, Morocco, 17/10/2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83274-1_14