Interobserver variability effects on computerized volume analysis of treatment response of head and neck lesions in CT

Lubomir Hadjiiski; Heang-Ping Chan; Mohannad Ibrahim; Berkman Sahiner; Sachin Gujar; Suresh K. Mukherji

doi:10.1117/12.844643

9 March 2010 Interobserver variability effects on computerized volume analysis of treatment response of head and neck lesions in CT

Lubomir Hadjiiski; Heang-Ping Chan; Mohannad Ibrahim; Berkman Sahiner; Sachin Gujar; Suresh K. Mukherji;

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Proceedings Volume 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 76243G (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844643
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A computerized system for segmenting lesions in head and neck CT scans was developed to assist radiologists in estimation of the response to treatment of malignant lesions. The system performs 3D segmentation based on a level set model and uses as input an approximate bounding box for the lesion of interest. We investigated the effect of the interobserver variability of radiologists' marking of the bounding box on the automatic segmentation performance. In this preliminary study, CT scans from a pre-treatment exam and a post one-cycle chemotherapy exam of 34 patients with primary site head and neck neoplasms were used. For each tumor, an experienced radiologist marked the lesion with a bounding box and provided a reference standard by outlining the full 3D contour on both the pre- and post treatment scans. A second radiologist independently marked each tumor again with another bounding box. The correlation between the automatic and manual estimates for both the pre-to-post-treatment volume change and the percent volume change was r=0.95. Based on the bounding boxes by the second radiologist, the correlation between the automatic and manual estimate for the pre-to-post-treatment volume change was r=0.89 and for the percent volume change was r=0.91. The correlation for the automatic estimates obtained from the bounding boxes by the two radiologists was as follows: (1) pretreatment volume r=0.92, (2) post-treatment volume r=0.88, (3) pre-to-post-treatment change r=0.89 and (4) percent preto- post-treatment change r=0.90. The difference between the automatic estimates based on the two sets of bounding boxes did not achieve statistical significance for any of the estimates (p>0.29). The preliminary results indicate that the automated segmentation system can reliably estimate tumor size change in response to treatment relative to radiologist's hand segmentation as reference standard, and that the performance was robust against inter-observer variability in marking the input bounding boxes.

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Lubomir Hadjiiski, Heang-Ping Chan, Mohannad Ibrahim, Berkman Sahiner, Sachin Gujar, Suresh K. Mukherji, "Interobserver variability effects on computerized volume analysis of treatment response of head and neck lesions in CT", Proc. SPIE 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 76243G (9 March 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.844643; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844643

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