Title
SegTHOR: Segmentation of Thoracic Organs at Risk in CT images
Abstract
In the era of open science, public datasets, along with common experimental protocol, help in the process of designing and validating data science algorithms; they also contribute to ease reproductibility and fair comparison between methods. Many datasets for image segmentation are available, each presenting its own challenges; however just a very few exist for radiotherapy planning. This paper is the presentation of a new dataset dedicated to the segmentation of organs at risk (OARs) in the thorax, i.e. the organs surrounding the tumour that must be preserved from irradiations during radiotherapy. This dataset is called SegTHOR (Segmentation of THoracic Organs at Risk). In this dataset, the OARs are the heart, the trachea, the aorta and the esophagus, which have varying spatial and appearance characteristics. The dataset includes 60 3D CT scans, divided into a training set of 40 and a test set of 20 patients, where the OARs have been contoured manually by an experienced radiotherapist. Along with the dataset, we present some baseline results, obtained using both the original, state-of-the-art architecture U-Net and a simplified version. We investigate different configurations of this baseline architecture that will serve as comparison for future studies on the SegTHOR dataset. Preliminary results show that room for improvement is left, especially for smallest organs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IPTA50016.2020.9286453
2020 Tenth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Image segmentation,CT imaging,organ at risk,dataset,deep learning,radiotherapy
Conference
2154-5111
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-8751-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lambert Z.100.34
Caroline Petitjean239028.57
Bernard Dubray3122.62
Ruan Su455953.00