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Background and purpose: The image quality of single-energy CT (SECT) limited the accuracy of automatic segmentation. Dual-energy CT (DECT) may potentially improve automatic segmentation yet the performance and strategy have not been investigated thoroughly. Based on DECT-generated virtual monochromatic images (VMIs), this study proposed a novel deep learning model (MIAU-Net) and evaluated the segmentation performance on the head organs-at-risk (OARs). Methods and Materials: The VMIs from 40 keV to 190 keV were retrospectively generated at intervals of 10 keV using the DECT of 46 patients. Images with expert delineation were used for training, validation, and testing MIAU-Net for automatic segmentation. The performance of MIAU-Net was compared with the existing U-Net, Attention-UNet, nnU-Net and TransFuse methods based on Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC). Correlation analysis was performed to evaluate and optimize the impact of different virtual energies on the accuracy of segmentation. Results: Using MIAU-Net, average DSCs across all virtual energy levels were 93.78 %, 81.75 %, 84.46 %, 92.85 %, 94.40 %, and 84.75 % for the brain stem, optic chiasm, lens, mandible, eyes, and optic nerves, respectively, higher than the previous publications using SECT. MIAU-Net achieved the highest average DSC (88.84 %) and the lowest parameters (14.54 M) in all tested models. The results suggested that 60 keV-80 keV is the optimal VMI energy level for soft tissue delineation, while 100 keV is optimal for skeleton segmentation. Conclusions: This work proposed and validated a novel deep learning model for automatic segmentation based on DECT, suggesting potential advantages and OAR-specific optimal energy of using VMIs for automatic delineation.
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Dual-energy CT
Automatic segmentation
Virtual monochromatic image
Deep learning
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