Therapeutic Radiology

Emergency Position Recovery Using Forward Kinematics in Robotic Patient Positioning Systems for Radiosurgery.

Precise patient positioning is paramount in radiosurgery to ensure the accurate targeting of tumors while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissues. This study focuses on the development and validation of a robust forward kinematics (FK) model for a robotic patient positioning system, specifically designed to handle emergency interruptions such as power loss or emergency stops. The FK model...

New Perspectives and State of the Art in Interventional Radiotherapy (Brachytherapy) for Head and Neck Tumors.

AIM: This review aims to evaluate the role of interventional radiotherapy (IRT - brachytherapy) in the clinical management of head and neck (H&N) cancers, focusing on recent technological advancements and their impact on clinical outcomes.

Automating the optimization of proton PBS treatment planning for head and neck cancers using policy gradient-based deep reinforcement learning.

BACKGROUND: Proton pencil beam scanning (PBS) treatment planning for head and neck (H&N) cancers is a time-consuming and experience-demanding task whe...

Radiogenomic explainable AI with neural ordinary differential equation for identifying post-SRS brain metastasis radionecrosis.

BACKGROUND: Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is widely used for managing brain metastases (BMs), but an adverse effect, radionecrosis, complicates post...

Brachytherapy Seed Placement by Robotic Bronchoscopy with Cone Beam Computed Tomography Guidance for Peripheral Lung Cancer: A Human Cadaveric Feasibility Pilot.

PURPOSE: This study evaluates the feasibility of using robotic-assisted bronchoscopy with cone beam computed tomography (RB-CBCT) platform to perform ...

Efficient and accurate commissioning and quality assurance of radiosurgery beam via prior-embedded implicit neural representation learning.

BACKGROUND: Dosimetric commissioning and quality assurance (QA) for linear accelerators (LINACs) present a significant challenge for clinical physicis...

Clinical Application of Deep Learning-Assisted Needles Reconstruction in Prostate Ultrasound Brachytherapy.

PURPOSE: High dose rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy (BT) procedure requires image-guided needle insertion. Given that general anesthesia is often emp...

A unified deep-learning framework for enhanced patient-specific quality assurance of intensity-modulated radiation therapy plans.

BACKGROUND: Modern radiation therapy techniques, such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT), use...

Automated treatment planning with deep reinforcement learning for head-and-neck (HN) cancer intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

To develop a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent to self-interact with the treatment planning system to automatically generate intensity modulated...

Towards U-Net-based intraoperative 2D dose prediction in high dose rate prostate brachytherapy.

BACKGROUND: Poor needle placement in prostate high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) results in sub-optimal dosimetry and mentally predicting these eff...

Automatic plan selection using deep network-A prostate study.

BACKGROUND: Recently, high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatment plans generation was improved with the development of multicriteria optimization (M...

A prognostic and predictive model based on deep learning to identify optimal candidates for intensity-modulated radiotherapy alone in patients with stage II nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A retrospective multicenter study.

PURPOSE: To develop and validate a prognostic and predictive model integrating deep learning MRI features and clinical information in patients with st...

Ultra-low dose rate brachytherapy (uLDR-BT) in treatment of patients with unfavorable intermediate-risk group prostate cancer - retrospective analysis.

BACKGROUND: Treatment with sole ultra-low dose rate brachytherapy (uLDR-BT) for unfavorable intermediate risk factor (IUR) group prostate cancer patie...

Breast radiotherapy planning: A decision-making framework using deep learning.

BACKGROUND: Effective breast cancer treatment planning requires balancing tumor control while minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissues. Choosi...

Dose prediction of CyberKnife Monte Carlo plan for lung cancer patients based on deep learning: robust learning of variable beam configurations.

BACKGROUND: Accurate calculation of lung cancer dose using the Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm in CyberKnife (CK) is essential for precise planning. We aim...

Attention 3D UNET for dose distribution prediction of high-dose-rate brachytherapy of cervical cancer: Intracavitary applicators.

BACKGROUND: Formulating a clinically acceptable plan within the time-constrained clinical setting of brachytherapy poses challenges to clinicians. Dee...

Clinical commissioning and introduction of an in-house artificial intelligence (AI) platform for automated head and neck intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To describe the clinical commissioning of an in-house artificial intelligence (AI) treatment planning platform for head-and-ne...

Deep learning-based segmentation for high-dose-rate brachytherapy in cervical cancer using 3D Prompt-ResUNet.

To develop and evaluate a 3D Prompt-ResUNet module that utilized the prompt-based model combined with 3D nnUNet for rapid and consistent autosegmentat...

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in improvement of IMRT and VMAT radiotherapy treatment planning processes: A systematic review.

INTRODUCTION: Radiotherapy is a common option in the treatment of many types of cancer. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) and Volumetric-Mo...

Artificial intelligence-based motion tracking in cancer radiotherapy: A review.

Radiotherapy aims to deliver a prescribed dose to the tumor while sparing neighboring organs at risk (OARs). Increasingly complex treatment techniques...