Josef A Buchner, Jan C Peeken, Lucas Etzel, Ivan Ezhov, Michael Mayinger, Sebastian M Christ, Thomas B Brunner, Andrea Wittig, Björn Menze, Claus Zimmer, Bernhard Meyer, Matthias Guckenberger, Nicolaus Andratschke, Rami A El Shafie, Jürgen Debus, Susanne Rogers, Oliver Riesterer, Katrin Schulze, Horst J Feldmann, Oliver Blanck, Constantinos Zamboglou, Konstantinos Ferentinos, Angelika Bilger, Anca L Grosu, Robert Wolff, Jan S Kirschke, Kerstin A Eitz, Stephanie E Combs, Denise Bernhardt, Daniel Rueckert, Marie Piraud, Benedikt Wiestler, Florian Kofler
BACKGROUND: Many automatic approaches to brain tumor segmentation employ multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences. The goal of this project was to compare different combinations of input sequences to determine which MRI sequences are needed for effective automated brain metastasis (BM) segmentation. METHODS: We analyzed preoperative imaging (T1-weighted sequence ± contrast-enhancement (T1/T1-CE), T2-weighted sequence (T2), and T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (T2-FLAIR) sequence) from 339 patients with BMs from seven centers...
September 5, 2023: Radiotherapy and Oncology