{"id":130,"date":"2025-05-07T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:34:22","slug":"distributed-learning-for-target-auto-contouring-in-radiation-oncology-putz-kippen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/distributed-learning-for-target-auto-contouring-in-radiation-oncology-putz-kippen\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributed Learning for target auto-contouring in Radiation Oncology (Putz, Kippen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Project PI:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PD Dr. Florian Putz<br \/>\nDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Universit\u00e4tsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg<br \/>\n<a href=\"florian.putz@uk-erlangen.de\">florian.putz@uk-erlangen.de<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Stefan Knippen<br \/>\nDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Helios Clinics of Schwerin-University Campus of MSH Medical School Hamburg, Schwerin, Germany<br \/>\n<a href=\"Stefan.Knippen@helios-gesundheit.de\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stefan.Knippen@helios-gesundheit.de<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Design:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Multi-center collaborative project utilizing a peer-to-peer federated learning approacxh for the development of deep learning auto-contouring models in radiation oncology. Each participating center trains the model on their local data and shares only the model weights, ensuring data privacy without the need for centralized infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collaboratively develop and evaluate advanced AI models for tumor auto-contouring and target volume definition.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure equal participation and knowledge sharing among centers.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain patient data privacy by sharing only model parameters, not patient data.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate the need for centralized infrastructure while promoting collaborative model improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate publication and serve as an introductory project for centers new to AI research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project status:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First application brain metastases auto-segmentation (Collaboration with DEGRO AG Stereotaxie)<\/li>\n<li>Successful testing of the peer-to-peer federated learning approach between Erlangen and Zurich, with a first application case brain metastasis auto-detection and auto-contouring.<\/li>\n<li>Two-center collaboration results published in Radiotherapy and Oncology, Volume 198, 110419.<\/li>\n<li>Currently role-out for multi-center implementation first including Schwerin and then subsequent centers.<\/li>\n<li>Later expansion to additional application cases, such as anatomically defined target volumens.<\/li>\n<li>If you like to participate please reach out to<a href=\"florian.putz@uk-erlangen.de\"> florian.putz@uk-erlangen.de <\/a>or <a href=\"mailto:stefan.kippen@helios-gesundheit.de\">stefan.kippen@helios-gesundheit.de<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project PI:<\/p>\n<p>PD Dr. Florian Putz<br \/>\nDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Universit\u00e4tsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg<br \/>\nflorian.putz@uk-erlangen.de<br \/>\nDr. Stefan Knippen<br \/>\nDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Helios Clinics of Schwerin-University Campus of MSH Medical School Hamburg, Schwerin, Germany<br \/>\nStefan.Knippen@helios-gesundheit.de<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nProject Design:<br \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degro.org\/digitalisierung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}