用预训练模型预测头颈放疗患者治疗日解剖变化,减少重复扫描。
Anticipatory Digital Twins for Online Head-and-Neck Adaptive Proton Therapy via Foundation-Model Registration
- 用群体数据迁移学习预测患者每日解剖变化,无需个体训练。
- 预测CT与真实治疗日影像匹配度提升,器官分割精度提高20.2%。
- 适合解剖变化大的患者,可实现无重复成像的在线自适应放疗。
头颈部质子治疗在4至6周疗程中对解剖变化极为敏感,肿瘤缩小、体重下降和定位偏差可能导致布拉格峰接近腮腺、口腔、脑干和脊髓等关键器官,引发靶区照射不足或危及器官过量照射。在线自适应质子治疗需基于当日解剖重计划,但传统流程依赖离线重计划,需重复获取CT并耗时约一周,增加负担、成本与延迟。本文探究是否可通过从群体数据库迁移纵向变化,提前预测治疗日解剖结构。提出一种基于预训练基础模型的数字孪生框架,无需患者特异性训练。第一阶段注册将先验患者的计划CT与目标配准,并将先验的治疗中质量保证CT(QACT)映射到目标空间;第二阶段估计先验患者从计划到QACT的变化,再应用于目标患者的计划CT,生成预测CT(pdCT)及传播轮廓。基于88名头颈癌患者(每人含计划CT与三份QACT),结果显示pdCT比静态计划CT更贴近实际治疗日解剖。相比仅用计划CT,归一化互相关提升22.8%,危及器官的Dice系数提高20.2%,CT值误差降低23.4%。解剖变化显著的患者获益最大,稳定者无明显改善。该跨患者运动迁移方法利用数字孪生概念,实现无重复影像的个性化在线自适应质子治疗。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Head-and-neck (HN) proton therapy is highly sensitive to anatomical change over a 4-to-6-week course, as tumor shrinkage, weight loss, and setup variation can misposition the Bragg peak near critical organs such as the parotids, oral cavity, brainstem, and spinal cord, leading to target underdosing or organ-at-risk overdosing. Online adaptive proton therapy replans on the anatomy of the day, yet standard workflows rely on offline replanning that requires repeated CT acquisition and roughly a week of preparation, adding burden, cost, and delay. We investigate whether a patient's treatment-day anatomy can be predicted before image acquisition by transferring longitudinal change from a population database. We propose a digital-twin framework built on a pretrained foundation-model deformable registration network used without patient-specific training. A first registration aligns a prior patient's planning CT to the target and carries the prior's during-treatment quality assurance CT (QACT) into the target frame; a second registration estimates the prior's planning-to-QACT change, which is then applied to the target's own planning CT to synthesize predicted CTs (pdCTs) with propagated contours. Using 88 HN patients, each with a planning CT and three QACTs, we show that pdCTs better match treatment-day anatomy than the static planning CT. Compared with the planning CT alone, normalized cross-correlation improves by 22.8%, Dice for organs-at-risk by 20.2%, and CT-number error decreases by 23.4%. Gains are largest for patients with major anatomical change and negligible when anatomy is stable. This cross-patient motion transfer leverages the digital-twin concept to anticipate treatment-day anatomy, enabling personalized online adaptive proton therapy without repeated imaging.
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