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http://dx.doi.org/10.14316/pmp.2015.26.4.258

Feasibility of Automated Detection of Inter-fractional Deviation in Patient Positioning Using Structural Similarity Index: Preliminary Results  

Youn, Hanbean (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Jeon, Hosang (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Lee, Jayeong (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Lee, Juhye (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Nam, Jiho (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Park, Dahl (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Kim, Wontaek (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Ki, Yongkan (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Kim, Donghyun (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.26, no.4, 2015 , pp. 258-266 More about this Journal
Abstract
The modern radiotherapy technique which delivers a large amount of dose to patients asks to confirm the positions of patients or tumors more accurately by using X-ray projection images of high-definition. However, a rapid increase in patient's exposure and image information for CT image acquisition may be additional burden on the patient. In this study, by introducing structural similarity (SSIM) index that can effectively extract the structural information of the image, we analyze the differences between daily acquired x-ray images of a patient to verify the accuracy of patient positioning. First, for simulating a moving target, the spherical computational phantoms changing the sizes and positions were created to acquire projected images. Differences between the images were automatically detected and analyzed by extracting their SSIM values. In addition, as a clinical test, differences between daily acquired x-ray images of a patient for 12 days were detected in the same way. As a result, we confirmed that the SSIM index was changed in the range of 0.85~1 (0.006~1 when a region of interest (ROI) was applied) as the sizes or positions of the phantom changed. The SSIM was more sensitive to the change of the phantom when the ROI was limited to the phantom itself. In the clinical test, the daily change of patient positions was 0.799~0.853 in SSIM values, those well described differences among images. Therefore, we expect that SSIM index can provide an objective and quantitative technique to verify the patient position using simple x-ray images, instead of time and cost intensive three-dimensional x-ray images.
Keywords
Structural similarity; kV image; Inter-fractional deviation; Patient positioning;
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