Auto-segmentation of the brachial plexus assessed with TaCTICS – A software platform for rapid multiple-metric quantitative evaluation of contours

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to gratefully thank Suresh Senan, PhD, Niels Haasbeek, MD and Joost Bot, MD for their efforts and participation in the aforementioned study. Portions of this data were selected for a presentation at the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC), July 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Conflict of interest statement: Department of Radiation Oncology VU University Medical Center has research agreements with Varian Medical Systems and Brainlab. MD has received travel support honoraria from Varian and Brainlab. CDF received/receives funding support from the SWOG-Hope Foundation Dr. Charles A. Coltman, Jr. Fellowship in Clinical Trials, the National Institutes of Health Paul Calabresi Clinical Trial Program (K12 CA088084-14) and Clinician Scientist Loan Repayment Program (L30 CA136381-02), an MD Anderson/Elekta AB MR-LinAc Seed Grant, the MD Anderson Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging/General Electric Healthcare In-Kind support, the Center for Radiation Oncology Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center Seed Grant, and the MD Anderson Institutional Research Grant Program. JKC received funding support from a National Institute of Health/National Library of Medicine grant (4R00LM009889). TaCTICS software was developed by JKC and CDF with funding from the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Product Development Grant. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. These funders played no role in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, manuscript writing, or decision to submit the report for publication.

Supplementary material available online

Supplementary Table I (available online at http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0284186X.2014.953638)