Publications by authors named "A M Groendahl"

Medical image analysis based on deep learning is a rapidly advancing field in veterinary diagnostics. The aim of this retrospective diagnostic accuracy study was to develop and assess a convolutional neural network (CNN, EfficientNet) to evaluate elbow radiographs from dogs screened for elbow dysplasia. An auto-cropping tool based on the deep learning model RetinaNet was developed for radiograph preprocessing to crop the radiographs to the region of interest around the elbow joint.

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Target volumes for radiotherapy are usually contoured manually, which can be time-consuming and prone to inter- and intra-observer variability. Automatic contouring by convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be fast and consistent but may produce unrealistic contours or miss relevant structures. We evaluate approaches for increasing the quality and assessing the uncertainty of CNN-generated contours of head and neck cancers with PET/CT as input.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study compares conventional radiomics and deep learning radiomics in predicting overall and disease-free survival for patients with head and neck cancer using PET/CT images.
  • CNNs, or deep learning models, directly analyzing images showed superior performance compared to conventional methods that rely on pre-defined regions of interest.
  • Incorporating both traditional radiomics and clinical data with these image-based models enhanced prediction accuracy, demonstrating the potential of combining these approaches for better cancer treatment outcomes.
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Background: Radiotherapy (RT) is increasingly being used on dogs with spontaneous head and neck cancer (HNC), which account for a large percentage of veterinary patients treated with RT. Accurate definition of the gross tumor volume (GTV) is a vital part of RT planning, ensuring adequate dose coverage of the tumor while limiting the radiation dose to surrounding tissues. Currently the GTV is contoured manually in medical images, which is a time-consuming and challenging task.

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