CT based automatic clinical target volume delineation using a dense-fully connected convolution network for cervical Cancer radiation therapy

Abstract Background It is very important to accurately delineate the CTV on the patient’s three-dimensional CT image in the radiotherapy process. Limited to the scarcity of clinical samples and the difficulty of automatic delineation, the research of automatic delineation of cervical cancer CTV base...

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Main Authors: Zhongjian Ju, Wen Guo, Shanshan Gu, Jin Zhou, Wei Yang, Xiaohu Cong, Xiangkun Dai, Hong Quan, Jie Liu, Baolin Qu, Guocai Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-03-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07595-6