Real-time tumor tracking using fluoroscopic imaging with deep neural network analysis.

Journal: Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To improve respiratory gating accuracy and treatment throughput, we developed a fluoroscopic markerless tumor tracking algorithm based on a deep neural network (DNN).

Authors

  • Ryusuke Hirai
    Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kanagawa 212-8582, Japan. Electronic address: ryusuke.hirai@toshiba.co.jp.
  • Yukinobu Sakata
    Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kanagawa 212-8582, Japan.
  • Akiyuki Tanizawa
    Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kanagawa 212-8582, Japan.
  • Shinichiro Mori
    Research Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.. Electronic address: mori.shinichiro@qst.go.jp.