Use of SBRT with erlotinib for unselected patients with stage IV NSCLC as a second- or subsequent line therapy resulted in dramatic changes in patterns of failure, was well tolerated, and resulted in high PFS and OS, substantially greater than historical values for patients who only received systemic agents.
Purpose: This study assessed the dosimetric accuracy of synthetic CT images generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data for focal brain radiation therapy, using a deep learning approach.
Material and Methods:We conducted a study in 77 patients with brain tumors who had undergone both MRI and computed tomography (CT) imaging as part of their simulation for external beam treatment planning. We designed a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate synthetic CT images from MRI images. We used Mutual Information (MI) as the loss function in the generator to overcome the misalignment between MRI and CT images (unregistered data). The model was trained using all MRI slices with corresponding CT slices from each training subject's MRI/CT pair.
Results:The proposed GAN method produced an average mean absolute error (MAE) of 47.2 ±11.0 HU over 5-fold cross validation. The overall mean Dice similarity coefficient between CT and synthetic CT images was 80% ± 6% in bone for all test data. Though training a GAN model may take several hours, the model only needs to be trained once. Generating a complete synthetic CT volume for each new patient MRI volume using a trained GAN model took only one second.
Conclusions:The GAN model we developed produced highly accurate synthetic CT images from conventional, single-sequence MRI images in seconds. Our proposed method has strong potential to perform well in a clinical workflow for MRI-only brain treatment planning.
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