Estimation of heart dose in left breast cancer radiotherapy: Assessment of vDIBH feasibility using the supervised machine learning algorithm.

Journal: Journal of applied clinical medical physics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The volunteer deep inspiration breath hold (vDIBH) technique is used to reduce the heart dose in left breast cancer radiotherapy. Many times, it is faced that despite rigorous exercise and training, not all patients get benefited as expected. The primary objective of this study was to develop a machine learning program for prediction of mean heart dose before left breast radiotherapy under vDIBH.

Authors

  • Shriram Ashok Rajurkar
    DHR-ICMR JRF, Department of Radiation Oncology, KGMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Teerthraj Verma
    Department of Radiation Oncology, KGMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Rajeev Gupta
    Department of Radiation Oncology, KGMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.