Parotid gland segmentation with nnU-Net: deployment scenario and inter-observer variability analysis

Gašper Podobnik; Primož Strojan; Primož Peterlin; Bulat Ibragimov; Tomaž Vrtovec

doi:10.1117/12.2609406

4 April 2022 Parotid gland segmentation with nnU-Net: deployment scenario and inter-observer variability analysis

Gašper Podobnik, Primož Strojan, Primož Peterlin, Bulat Ibragimov, Tomaž Vrtovec

Proceedings Volume 12032, Medical Imaging 2022: Image Processing; 120321N (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2609406
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common form of cancer in the world population. A commonly used treatment is radiotherapy, which requires physicians to first segment organs at risk (OARs) and tumors in computed tomography images, which is a laborious and time-consuming process. Therefore, a lot of research is being done to develop automatic methods for OAR segmentation. In this paper, we present the results of parotid gland segmentation with nnU-Net using data from two public datasets (Head-Neck-Radiomics-HN1 and PDDCA) and one private dataset acquired at the local hospital. To simulate a possible model deployment scenario, the first model was trained only on publicly available datasets and evaluated on the private dataset, and then compared to the second model that was trained on the same data with additional 10 images from the private dataset. We enrich the interpretation of the results with the comparison among different datasets and among delineations generated with a deep learning model against the delineations of a junior and senior expert that are available for our private dataset. Significant differences were observed among model performance on different datasets, but not among different observers. The performance of nnU-Net on the PDDCA dataset is on par with the state-of-the-art results reported in the literature. Also, the method performed very well compared to the inter-observer variability calculated on our private dataset.

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Gašper Podobnik, Primož Strojan, Primož Peterlin, Bulat Ibragimov, and Tomaž Vrtovec "Parotid gland segmentation with nnU-Net: deployment scenario and inter-observer variability analysis", Proc. SPIE 12032, Medical Imaging 2022: Image Processing, 120321N (4 April 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2609406

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