Auto Contouring

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Does anybody have experience with Varian's Smart Segmentation (or any other "auto-contouring") software? Seems too good to be true!

 

[OTN]

Does anybody have experience with Varian's Smart Segmentation (or any other "auto-contouring") software? Seems too good to be true!

In my experience it takes just as long to correct the auto-contouring results as it does to start from scratch.

 

[Neuronix]

It's decent for some simple normal structure contours. That's about it.

 

[Gfunk6]

I like to use the "auto-pilot" feature of MIM. It speeds up contouring in areas where there is large difference in HU between what you are contouring and surrounding tissue (e.g. bones, kidney, bladder, rectum, heart). However, pure 'auto-contouring' is more trouble than its worth due to the corrections you have to make.

 

[BraggPeak]

GFunk, your dosimetrists don't contour out the kidneys or heart??

 

[Gfunk6]

GFunk, your dosimetrists don't contour out the kidneys or heart??

Well you know my name is Gfunk and I like to do drawings.

They would if I asked them to but I prefer to do it myself with MIM's "auto-pilot." I enjoy it, find it relaxing and "I like to do drawings."

This is mainly an attending level issue though as some of my colleagues in the practice prefer that the dosimetrists contour most/all normal structures.

 

[medgator]

Well you know my name is Gfunk and I like to do drawings.

They would if I asked them to but I prefer to do it myself with MIM's "auto-pilot." I enjoy it, find it relaxing and "I like to do drawings."

This is mainly an attending level issue though as some of my colleagues in the practice prefer that the dosimetrists contour most/all normal structures.

I review the normal structures that my dosimetrist contours. I also contour anything they don't feel comfortable with