A feasibility study on the development and use of a deep learning model to automate real-time monitoring of tumor position and assessment of interfraction fiducial marker migration in prostate radiotherapy patients

Author(s):  
Ryan Motley ◽  
Andrew L Fielding ◽  
Prabhakar Ramachandran

Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of the development and training of a deep learning object detection model for automating the assessment of fiducial marker migration and tracking of the prostate in radiotherapy patients. Methods and Materials A fiducial marker detection model was trained on the YOLO v2 detection framework using approximately 20,000 pelvis kV projection images with fiducial markers labelled. The ability of the trained model to detect marker positions was validated by tracking the motion of markers in a respiratory phantom and comparing detection data with the expected displacement from a reference position. Marker migration was then assessed in 14 prostate radiotherapy patients using the detector for comparison with previously conducted studies. This was done by determining variations in intermarker distance between the first and subsequent fractions in each patient. Results On completion of training, a detection model was developed that operated at a 96% detection efficacy and with a root mean square error of 0.3 pixels. By determining the displacement from a reference position in a respiratory phantom, experimentally and with the detector it was found that the detector was able to compute displacements with a mean accuracy of 97.8% when compared to the actual values. Interfraction marker migration was measured in 14 patients and the average and maximum ± standard deviation marker migration were found to be 2.0±0.9 mm and 2.3±0.9 mm, respectively. Conclusion This study demonstrates the benefits of pairing deep learning object detection, and image-guided radiotherapy and how a workflow to automate the assessment of organ motion and seed migration during prostate radiotherapy can be developed. The high detection efficacy and low error make the advantages of using a pre-trained model to automate the assessment of the target volume positional variation and the migration of fiducial markers between fractions.

Author(s):  
Jiun-In Guo ◽  
Chia-Chi Tsai ◽  
Yong-Hsiang Yang ◽  
Hung-Wei Lin ◽  
Bo-Xun Wu ◽  
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Author(s):  
L. Lou ◽  
S. Zhang ◽  
S. Zhang

Abstract. With the development of deep learning, object detection has a significantly improvement. But most of algorithms only focus on the detection accuracy and speed, they do not consider the difficulty of making training datasets and the time consumption of training detection models, which will have a bad influence on the performance of detection model when the class of objects change in high frequency. This paper proposes a method named double network detection (DN detection), it can improve the efficiency of making training datasets and shorten the time of training model. At the same time, the experiment shows that the DN detection have a good performance in accuracy and speed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Ciobanu ◽  
Mihaela Luca ◽  
Tudor Barbu ◽  
Vasile Drug ◽  
Andrei Olteanu ◽  
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Author(s):  
Vibhavari B Rao

The crime rates today can inevitably put a civilian's life in danger. While consistent efforts are being made to alleviate crime, there is also a dire need to create a smart and proactive surveillance system. Our project implements a smart surveillance system that would alert the authorities in real-time when a crime is being committed. During armed robberies and hostage situations, most often, the police cannot reach the place on time to prevent it from happening, owing to the lag in communication between the informants of the crime scene and the police. We propose an object detection model that implements deep learning algorithms to detect objects of violence such as pistols, knives, rifles from video surveillance footage, and in turn send real-time alerts to the authorities. There are a number of object detection algorithms being developed, each being evaluated under the performance metric mAP. On implementing Faster R-CNN with ResNet 101 architecture we found the mAP score to be about 91%. However, the downside to this is the excessive training and inferencing time it incurs. On the other hand, YOLOv5 architecture resulted in a model that performed very well in terms of speed. Its training speed was found to be 0.012 s / image during training but naturally, the accuracy was not as high as Faster R-CNN. With good computer architecture, it can run at about 40 fps. Thus, there is a tradeoff between speed and accuracy and it's important to strike a balance. We use transfer learning to improve accuracy by training the model on our custom dataset. This project can be deployed on any generic CCTV camera by setting up a live RTSP (real-time streaming protocol) and streaming the footage on a laptop or desktop where the deep learning model is being run.


Author(s):  
Limu Chen ◽  
Ye Xia ◽  
Dexiong Pan ◽  
Chengbin Wang

<p>Deep-learning based navigational object detection is discussed with respect to active monitoring system for anti-collision between vessel and bridge. Motion based object detection method widely used in existing anti-collision monitoring systems is incompetent in dealing with complicated and changeable waterway for its limitations in accuracy, robustness and efficiency. The video surveillance system proposed contains six modules, including image acquisition, detection, tracking, prediction, risk evaluation and decision-making, and the detection module is discussed in detail. A vessel-exclusive dataset with tons of image samples is established for neural network training and a SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector) based object detection model with both universality and pertinence is generated attributing to tactics of sample filtering, data augmentation and large-scale optimization, which make it capable of stable and intelligent vessel detection. Comparison results with conventional methods indicate that the proposed deep-learning method shows remarkable advantages in robustness, accuracy, efficiency and intelligence. In-situ test is carried out at Songpu Bridge in Shanghai, and the results illustrate that the method is qualified for long-term monitoring and providing information support for further analysis and decision making.</p>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirofumi Watanabe ◽  
Yoshiko Ariji ◽  
Motoki Fukuda ◽  
Chiaki Kuwada ◽  
Yoshitaka Kise ◽  
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