Advanced Skills in Modern Radiotherapy 2018

Auto-segmentation – Beware!

• Attractive due to time saving aspects and support of adaptive RT, but...

• Beware of automaticity!

➢ “Even with the implementation of AS software in the future, it should be reinforced that manual editing is still a necessity for patient safety.” (Lim and Leech, 2017)

➢ “atlas-based automatic segmentation tool ... is timesaving but still necessitates review and corrections by an expert” (Daisne and Blumhofer, 2013)