Overview of the HECKTOR Challenge at MICCAI 2022: Automatic Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation and Outcome Prediction in PET/CT
Vincent Andrearczyk
(1)
,
Valentin Oreiller
(2)
,
Moamen Abobakr
,
Azadeh Akhavanallaf
(3)
,
Panagiotis Balermpas
(4)
,
Sarah Boughdad
(2)
,
Leo Capriotti
(5, 6)
,
Joel Castelli
(7, 8)
,
Catherine Cheze Le Rest
(9, 10, 11)
,
Pierre Decazes
(12, 13)
,
Ricardo Correia
(2)
,
Dina El-Habashy
(14)
,
Hesham Elhalawani
,
Clifton Fuller
(14)
,
Mario Jreige
(2)
,
Yomna Khamis
(14)
,
Agustina La Greca
(4)
,
Abdallah Mohamed
(14)
,
Mohamed Naser
(14)
,
John Prior
(2)
,
Su Ruan
(13, 5)
,
Stephanie Tanadini-Lang
(4)
,
Olena Tankyevych
(10)
,
Yazdan Salimi
(3)
,
Martin Vallières
(15)
,
Pierre Vera
(13, 5)
,
Dimitris Visvikis
(9)
,
Kareem Wahid
(14)
,
Habib Zaidi
(3)
,
Mathieu Hatt
(9)
,
Adrien Depeursinge
(1, 2)
1
HES-SO Valais-Wallis -
Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale Valais-Wallis
2 CHUV - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois = Lausanne University Hospital [Lausanne]
3 HUG - Geneva University Hospital
4 University hospital of Zurich [Zurich]
5 CLCC Henri Becquerel - Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Henri Becquerel Normandie Rouen
6 LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, du Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes
7 LTSI - Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image
8 CRLCC - CRLCC Eugène Marquis
9 LaTIM - Laboratoire de Traitement de l'Information Medicale
10 CHU de Poitiers [La Milétrie] - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers = Poitiers University Hospital
11 CHRU Brest - Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest
12 Service de médecine nucléaire [Rouen]
13 QuantIF-LITIS - Equipe Quantification en Imagerie Fonctionnelle
14 MD Anderson Cancer Center [Houston]
15 UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke
2 CHUV - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois = Lausanne University Hospital [Lausanne]
3 HUG - Geneva University Hospital
4 University hospital of Zurich [Zurich]
5 CLCC Henri Becquerel - Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer Henri Becquerel Normandie Rouen
6 LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, du Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes
7 LTSI - Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image
8 CRLCC - CRLCC Eugène Marquis
9 LaTIM - Laboratoire de Traitement de l'Information Medicale
10 CHU de Poitiers [La Milétrie] - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers = Poitiers University Hospital
11 CHRU Brest - Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest
12 Service de médecine nucléaire [Rouen]
13 QuantIF-LITIS - Equipe Quantification en Imagerie Fonctionnelle
14 MD Anderson Cancer Center [Houston]
15 UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke
Résumé
This paper presents an overview of the third edition of the HEad and neCK TumOR segmentation and outcome prediction (HECKTOR) challenge, organized as a satellite event of the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2022. The challenge comprises two tasks related to the automatic analysis of FDG-PET/CT images for patients with Head and Neck cancer (H &N), focusing on the oropharynx region. Task 1 is the fully automatic segmentation of H &N primary Gross Tumor Volume (GTVp) and metastatic lymph nodes (GTVn) from FDG-PET/CT images. Task 2 is the fully automatic prediction of Recurrence-Free Survival (RFS) from the same FDG-PET/CT and clinical data. The data were collected from nine centers for a total of 883 cases consisting of FDG-PET/CT images and clinical information, split into 524 training and 359 test cases. The best methods obtained an aggregated Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSCagg) of 0.788 in Task 1, and a Concordance index (C-index) of 0.682 in Task 2.