Taking Advantage of MONAI and DiNTS Frameworks to Develop a State-of-the-Art Algorithm for Automatic Segmentation of Brain Metastases
摘要
Brain metastases are the most common intracranial tumors. Volumetric assessment of the lesions is crucial for stereotactic radiosurgery planning. However, manual annotation of the lesions is time-consuming and prone to error. Automated, reliable solutions have the potential to overcome those barriers. A DiNTS-based 3D segmentation model of brain metastases MRI cases, trained on the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) – Metastases 2025 Lighthouse Challenge dataset was developed and presented in this study. MONAI and DiNTS frameworks with combined Dice and Focal loss were utilized to develop the model that achieved mean Dice coefficients of 0.692 (WT), 0.718 (TC), and 0.687 (ET) on a validation set of 130 cases. These scores indicate the model’s performance across tumor subregions.