2013 Winter Project Week Gyne Brachy
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Segmented Brachytherapy Needles in iGyne.
Key Investigators
- Alireza Mehrtash, BWH
- Csaba Pinter, Queen's
Project Description
Objective
- The iGyne module is a user friendly Slicer module which is designed to assist gynecologic radiation oncologists in the process of applicator placement and brachytherapy needle insertion. Currently the module can perform applicator registration and needle segmentation successfully.
- The objective of this project is to develop a method to validate and measure the accuracy of the needle segmentation results.
Approach, Plan
- Needle digitization
- Exporting the segmented results.
- Make a comparison between the segmented needles from MRI images and the postoperative checking CT images.
- Define metrics to measure the accuracy of the segmentation results.
