Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Jan 19, 2022
PURPOSE: The existence of multicontrast magnetic resonance (MR) images increases the level of clinical information available for the diagnosis and treatment of brain cancer patients. However, acquiring the complete set of multicontrast MR images is n...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Dec 10, 2021
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers excellent soft-tissue contrast enabling the contouring of targets and organs at risk during gynecological interstitial brachytherapy procedure. Despite its advantage, one of the main obstacles preventing a tran...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Dec 6, 2021
Accurate liver segmentation is essential for radiation therapy planning of hepatocellular carcinoma and absorbed dose calculation. However, liver segmentation is a challenging task due to the anatomical variability in both shape and size and the low ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 22, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Because radiotherapy is indispensible for treating cervical cancer, it is critical to accurately and efficiently delineate the radiation targets. We evaluated a deep learning (DL)-based auto-segmentation algorithm for automatic contouring...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Oct 8, 2021
Radiotherapy (RT) datasets can suffer from variations in annotation of organ at risk (OAR) and target structures. Annotation standards exist, but their description for prostate targets is limited. This restricts the use of such data for supervised ma...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Oct 5, 2021
PURPOSE: To develop a Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) pipeline that can be integrated into an Incident Learning System (ILS) to assist radiation oncology incident learning by semi-automating incident classification. Our go...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Sep 10, 2021
PURPOSE: The deformable registration of 3D chest computed tomography (CT) images is one of the most important tasks in the field of medical image registration. However, the nonlinear deformation and large-scale displacement of lung tissues caused by ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 3, 2021
In order to deliver accurate and safe treatment to cancer patients in radiation therapy using advanced techniques such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric-arc radiation therapy (VMAT), patient specific quality assurance (QA...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 3, 2021
PURPOSE: Manual delineation of a rectal tumor on a volumetric image is time-consuming and subjective. Deep learning has been used to segment rectal tumors automatically on T2-weighted images, but automatic segmentation on diffusion-weighted imaging i...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Jul 7, 2021
PURPOSE: Deep-learning-based segmentation models implicitly learn to predict the presence of a structure based on its overall prominence in the training dataset. This phenomenon is observed and accounted for in deep-learning applications such as natu...