A
system for automated
tumor margin determination in radiological images, comprising: an
image acquisition interface configured to receive radiological image data from one or more
imaging modalities; a preprocessing unit operationally coupled to the
image acquisition interface and configured to perform
intensity normalization, spatial
resampling, and
noise reduction on the received image data to generate standardized image inputs; a
feature extraction unit comprising a plurality of convolutional
layers arranged in a hierarchical structure and configured to extract spatial features of different orders of magnitude from the standardized image inputs;a
transformer coding unit operationally coupled to the
feature extraction unit and configured to generate context-sensitive feature representations by applying self-attention operations over spatial areas of the extracted features; a fusion unit operationally coupled to both the
feature extraction unit and the
transformer coding unit and configured to combine features derived from convolutions and context representations derived from transformers into a unified feature map; a decoding unit operationally coupled to the fusion unit and configured to generate a segmentation map corresponding to the tumor regions by incrementally increasing and reconstructing the spatial resolution; a boundary refinement unit configured to improve the delineation of tumor margins in the segmentation map;a
processing unit that is operationally coupled with the preprocessing unit, the feature extraction unit, the
transformer coding unit, the fusion unit, the decoding unit, and the boundary refinement unit, wherein the
processing unit executes instructions stored in a memory unit to perform automated tumor boundary delineation; and a display interface configured to
overlay the delineated tumor boundaries onto the radiological image data.