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ArticleEJNMMI physics2025

Interobserver ground-truth variability limits performance of automated glioblastoma segmentation on [

Selene De Sutter, Ine Dirks, Laurens Raes, Wietse Geens, Hendrik Everaert, Sophie Bourgeois, Johnny Duerinck, Jef Vandemeulebroucke

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  1. Multimodal PET-MR segmentation for glioblastoma: complementarity for treatment planning and recurrence definition.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2026
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  2. First human whole-body biodistribution and dosimetry analysis of [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026
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Selene De SutterDepartment of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 9, Elsene, 1050, Brussels, Belgium. selene.de.sutter@vub.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1236-1420
Ine DirksDepartment of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 9, Elsene, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1648-0358
Laurens RaesDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4544-7001
Wietse GeensDepartment of Neurosurgery, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2496-9209
Hendrik EveraertDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0756-0089
Sophie BourgeoisDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Brussels, Belgium.
Johnny DuerinckDepartment of Neurosurgery, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9869-9806
Jef VandemeulebrouckeDepartment of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 9, Elsene, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5714-3254

Funding

Horizon 2020 Grant Number 101016834
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPositron emission tomography (PET) with a [

resultsThe proposed two-channel network shows increased performance with guidance of threshold maps originating from the same reader whose ground-truth tumor label the prediction is compared to (DSC = 0.901). When threshold maps were generated by a different reader, performance reverted to levels comparable to the one-channel network and inter-reader variability. The proposed full pipeline achieves results on par with current state of the art (DSC = 0.807).

conclusionsIncorporating a threshold map can significantly improve tumor segmentation performance when it aligns well with the ground-truth label. However, the current inability to reliably reproduce these maps-both manually and automatically-or the ground-truth tumor labels, restricts the achievable accuracy for automated glioblastoma segmentation on [

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BrainDeep learningGlioblastomaPositron emission tomographySegmentation

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PMID40478497
PMCPMC12144010

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