Multicenter comparison of measures for quantitative evaluation of contouring in radiotherapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

A wide range of quantitative measures are available to facilitate clinical implementation of auto-contouring software, on-going Quality Assurance (QA) and interobserver contouring variation studies. This study aimed to assess the variation in output when applying different implementations of the measures to the same data in order to investigate how consistently such measures are defined and implemented in radiation oncology.

Materials and methods

A survey was conducted to assess if there were any differences in definitions of contouring measures or their implementations that would lead to variation in reported results between institutions. This took two forms: a set of computed tomography (CT) image data with "Test" and "Reference" contours was distrib

SUBMITTER: Gooding MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9679364 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature