Virtual pretreatment patient-specific quality assurance of volumetric modulated arc therapy using deep learning.

Journal: Medical physics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Automatic patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) is recently explored using artificial intelligence approaches, and several studies reported the development of machine learning models for predicting the gamma pass rate (GPR) index only.

Authors

  • S A Yoganathan
    Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Sharib Ahmed
    Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Satheesh Paloor
    Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Tarraf Torfeh
    Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Souha Aouadi
    Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Noora Al-Hammadi
    Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
  • Rabih Hammoud
    Department of Radiation Oncology, National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.