Skip to main content
Fig. 6 | Radiation Oncology

Fig. 6

From: A review of substitute CT generation for MRI-only radiation therapy

Fig. 6

Performance metrics dependence on the region of interest and CT threshold number for the bone. All metrics are calculated on substitute CTs from 3D T1w MR images of 6 brain patients [47] using an atlas patch based method [48]. a: The boxplot shows the MAE within the body outline (left) and the whole field of view (FOV, right). The medians were 87 and 49 HU for the body and FOV MAE, respectively, and were significantly different (p < 0.002). b: The Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) metric for bone as a function of threshold CT number. c: Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of the sCT bone as a function of CT threshold number (thres). True positive (TP) = sCT > thres & CT > thres, false positive (FP) = sCT > thres & CT < thres, true negative (TN) = sCT < thres & CT < thres and false negative (FN) = sCT < thres & CT > thres. Sensitivity = TP/(TP + FN) and specificity = TN/(TN + FP). The threshold was varied from 100 (right) to 3000 (left) HU in steps of 100 HU. Only voxels > 100 HU on the CT, i.e. the bone region, was included in the evaluation to keep the TN number (non-bone tissue on the sCT and CT) to a reasonable number

Back to article page