title: A New CT Prostate Segmentation for CT-Based HDR Brachytherapy.
abstract: High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy has become a popular treatment modality for localized prostate cancer. Prostate HDR treatment involves placing 10 to 20 catheters (needles) into the prostate gland, and then delivering radiation dose to the cancerous regions through these catheters. These catheters are often inserted with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guidance and the HDR treatment plan is based on the CT images. The main challenge for CT-based HDR planning is to accurately segment prostate volume in CT images due to the poor soft tissue contrast and additional artifacts introduced by the catheters. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel approach to segment the prostate in CT images through TRUS-CT deformable registration based on the catheter locations. In this approach, the HDR catheters are reconstructed from the intra-operative TRUS and planning CT images, and then used as landmarks for the TRUS-CT image registration. The prostate contour generated from the TRUS images captured during the ultrasound-guided HDR procedure was used to segment the prostate on the CT images through deformable registration. We conducted two studies. A prostate-phantom study demonstrated a submillimeter accuracy of our method. A pilot study of 5 prostate-cancer patients was conducted to further test its clinical feasibility. All patients had 3 gold markers implanted in the prostate that were used to evaluate the registration accuracy, as well as previous diagnostic MR images that were used as the gold standard to assess the prostate segmentation. For the 5 patients, the mean gold-marker displacement was 1.2 mm; the prostate volume difference between our approach and the MRI was 7.2%, and the Dice volume overlap was over 91%. Our proposed method could improve prostate delineation, enable accurate dose planning and delivery, and potentially enhance prostate HDR treatment outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Xiaofeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Tomi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogunleye
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Ashesh B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Jani
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Walter J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Curran
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
authors.forename: Tian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
keywords: CT; HDR; Prostate; brachytherapy; segmentation; transrectal ultrasound (TRUS); ultrasound-guided
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