BACKGROUND: Poor needle placement in prostate high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) results in sub-optimal dosimetry and mentally predicting these effects during HDR-BT is difficult, creating a barrier to widespread availability of high-quality prost...
PURPOSE: Brachytherapy is a critical component of the standard-of-care curative radiotherapy regimen for women with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC). However, existing literature suggests that many patients will not receive the brachytherapy b...
PURPOSE: To Demonstrate the clinical validation of a machine learning (ML) model for applicator and interstitial needle prediction in gynecologic brachytherapy through a prospective clinical study in a single institution.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The current standard imaging-technique for creating postplans in seed prostate brachytherapy is computed tomography (CT), that is associated with additional radiation exposure and poor soft tissue contrast. To establish a magn...
PURPOSE: Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to simplify and optimize various steps of the brachytherapy workflow, and this literature review aims to provide an overview of the work done in this field.
PURPOSE: To automate the segmentation of treatment applicators on computed tomography (CT) images for high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy prostate patients implanted with titanium needles with the goals of improving plan quality and reducing the patie...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the noninferiority of Day 30 dosimetry between a machine learning-based treatment planning system for prostate low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy and the conventional, manual planning technique. As a ...
PURPOSE: Applicator digitization is one of the most critical steps in 3D high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDRBT) treatment planning. Motivated by recent advances in deep-learning, we propose a deep-learning-assisted applicator digitization method for 3D...
PURPOSE: External beam radiotherapy combined with interstitial brachytherapy is commonly used to treat patients with bulky, advanced gynecologic cancer. However, the high radiation dose needed to control the tumor may result in fistula development. T...