arXiv:2606.11012cs.CV2026-06

为宫颈癌放疗开发了可量化剂量累积不确定性的新框架

An Uncertainty Estimation Framework for Dose Accumulation in Adaptive Radiotherapy: Application to CBCT-Guided Radiotherapy for Cervical Cancer

论文配图:An Uncertainty Estimation Framework for Dose Accumulation in Adaptive Radiotherapy: Application to CBCT-Guided Radiotherapy for Cervical Cancer
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  • 用集成式配准方法捕捉解剖变异带来的不确定性
  • 剂量体积曲线覆盖率达96.3%,且不确定性传播准确
  • 适合关注放疗精度的临床医生和医学物理师

自适应放疗(oART)可每日调整计划以应对分次间解剖变化,但累积剂量估计受限于配准(DIR)、分割及解剖不确定性。本文提出IMPACT-DoseAcc框架,在语义特征驱动图像分析系统IMPACT中实现不确定性感知的剂量累积。该框架不建模虚拟CT生成误差,仅关注配准不确定性。采用两种策略:基于贝叶斯分割引导的单一概率模型,以及多分割模型集成以捕捉认知变异性。通过体素级不确定性图在剂量变形与累积中传播,生成概率剂量体积直方图。利用变形场间的体素标准差量化集成不确定性,几何误差通过变形轮廓与验证轮廓间的表面距离评估。解剖变异性加权优化聚合效果。结果显示,集成不确定性与几何误差相关性高(CTVt为0.63,膀胱为0.66),概率剂量体积直方图覆盖率达96.3±3.9%,表明不确定性传播校准良好。加权策略稳定了跨分次及器官的估计结果。结论:IMPACT-DoseAcc将配准驱动的不确定性有效传播至累积剂量指标,提升在解剖变化下的剂量解释能力;其3DSlicer集成支持可复现、具不确定性意识的自适应放疗工作流。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Background and purpose: oART enables daily plan adaptation to interfraction anatomical variations, but cumulative dose estimation remains limited by DIR, segmentation, and anatomical uncertainties. We introduce IMPACT-DoseAcc, an uncertainty-aware dose accumulation framework, within IMPACT for semantic feature-driven image analysis. The framework is modality- and disease-agnostic and is applied to CBCT-guided oART for cervical cancer (LACC). Material and Methods: Nine LACC patients were retrospectively analyzed using daily CBCT-derived virtual CTs for dose recalculation. IMPACT-DoseAcc focuses on uncertainty from DIR, without modeling vCT-generation uncertainty. Two DIR uncertainty strategies were tested within IMPACT-Reg: a Bayesian segmentation-guided approach using one probabilistic model to quantify anatomical uncertainty, and an ensemble of segmentation models targeting structures to capture epistemic variability. Voxel-wise uncertainty maps were propagated through dose warping and accumulation to generate probabilistic dose-volume histograms. Ensemble uncertainty was quantified from voxel-wise standard deviation across deformation fields, and geometric error was assessed using surface distance between warped and validated contours. Anatomical-variability weighting refined aggregation. Results: Ensemble DIR uncertainty correlated with geometric error, with Pearson coefficients of 0.63 for CTVt and 0.66 for bladder. For CTVt, pDVHs achieved 96.3 +/- 3.9% coverage, showing calibration of propagated uncertainty. Weighting stabilized estimates across fractions and organs. Conclusions: IMPACT-DoseAcc propagates registration-driven uncertainty to cumulative dose metrics, improving interpretation of accumulated dose under anatomical variations. Its 3DSlicer integration supports reproducible, uncertainty-informed ART workflows.

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