19 July 2019 Benchmarking Wilms’ tumor in multisequence MRI data: why does current clinical practice fail? Which popular segmentation algorithms perform well?
Sabine Müller, Iva Farag, Joachim Weickert, Yvonne Braun, André Lollert, Jonas Dobberstein, Andreas Hötker, Norbert Graf
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Abstract

Wilms’ tumor is one of the most frequent malignant solid tumors in childhood. Accurate segmentation of tumor tissue is a key step during therapy and treatment planning. Since it is difficult to obtain a comprehensive set of tumor data of children, there is no benchmark so far allowing evaluation of the quality of human or computer-based segmentations. The contributions in our paper are threefold: (i) we present the first heterogeneous Wilms’ tumor benchmark data set. It contains multisequence MRI data sets before and after chemotherapy, along with ground truth annotation, approximated based on the consensus of five human experts. (ii) We analyze human expert annotations and interrater variability, finding that the current clinical practice of determining tumor volume is inaccurate and that manual annotations after chemotherapy may differ substantially. (iii) We evaluate six computer-based segmentation methods, ranging from classical approaches to recent deep-learning techniques. We show that the best ones offer a quality comparable to human expert annotations.

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Sabine Müller, Iva Farag, Joachim Weickert, Yvonne Braun, André Lollert, Jonas Dobberstein, Andreas Hötker, and Norbert Graf "Benchmarking Wilms’ tumor in multisequence MRI data: why does current clinical practice fail? Which popular segmentation algorithms perform well?," Journal of Medical Imaging 6(3), 034001 (19 July 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.6.3.034001
Received: 29 January 2019; Accepted: 24 June 2019; Published: 19 July 2019
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KEYWORDS
Tumors

Image segmentation

Magnetic resonance imaging

Tissues

Medical imaging

Image processing algorithms and systems

Data acquisition

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