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An in-silico quality assurance study of contouring target volumes in thoracic tumors within a cooperative group setting. 2019

Hesham Elhalawani, and Baher Elgohari, and Timothy A Lin, and Abdallah S R Mohamed, and Thomas J Fitzgerald, and Fran Laurie, and Kenneth Ulin, and Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, and Thomas Guerrero, and Emma B Holliday, and Gregory Russo, and Abhilasha Patel, and William Jones, and Gary V Walker, and Musaddiq Awan, and Mehee Choi, and Roi Dagan, and Omar Mahmoud, and Anna Shapiro, and Feng-Ming Spring Kong, and Daniel Gomez, and Jing Zeng, and Roy Decker, and Femke O B Spoelstra, and Laurie E Gaspar, and Lisa A Kachnic, and Charles R Thomas, and Paul Okunieff, and Clifton D Fuller
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX 77030, USA.

BACKGROUND Target delineation variability is a significant technical impediment in multi-institutional trials which employ intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), as there is a real potential for clinically meaningful variances that can impact the outcomes in clinical trials. The goal of this study is to determine the variability of target delineation among participants from different institutions as part of Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) Radiotherapy Committee's multi-institutional in-silico quality assurance study in patients with Pancoast tumors as a "dry run" for trial implementation. METHODS CT simulation scans were acquired from four patients with Pancoast tumor. Two patients had simulation 4D-CT and FDG-FDG PET-CT while two patients had 3D-CT and FDG-FDG PET-CT. Seventeen SWOG-affiliated physicians independently delineated target volumes defined as gross primary and nodal tumor volumes (GTV_P & GTV_N), clinical target volume (CTV), and planning target volume (PTV).Six board-certified thoracic radiation oncologists were designated as the 'Experts' for this study. Their delineations were used to create a simultaneous truth and performance level estimation (STAPLE) contours using ADMIRE software (Elekta AB, Sweden 2017). Individual participants' contours were then compared with Experts' STAPLE contours. RESULTS When compared to the Experts' STAPLE, GTV_P had the best agreement among all participants, while GTV_N showed the lowest agreement among all participants. There were no statistically significant differences in all studied parameters for all TVs for cases with 4D-CT versus cases with 3D-CT simulation scans. CONCLUSIONS High degree of inter-observer variation was noted for all target volume except for GTV_P, unveiling potentials for protocol modification for subsequent clinically meaningful improvement in target definition. Various similarity indices exist that can be used to guide multi-institutional radiotherapy delineation QA credentialing.

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