BACKGROUND: Independent testing of image quality metrics is important to provide an unbiased determination of medical imaging performance. Due to the underreporting by vendors of dead detector elements, which are elements that do not function but may...
BACKGROUND: Deep artificial neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be effective models for reducing noise in CT images while preserving anatomic details. A practical bottleneck for developing CNN-based denoisi...
BACKGROUND: Contouring of internal gross target volume (iGTV) is an essential part of treatment planning in radiotherapy to mitigate the impact of intra-fractional target motion. However, it is usually time-consuming and easily subjected to intra-obs...
BACKGROUND: We reported the concept of patient-specific deep learning (DL) for real-time markerless tumor segmentation in image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT). The method was aimed to control the attention of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by artif...
PURPOSE: To simultaneously register all the longitudinal images acquired in a radiotherapy course for analyzing patients' anatomy changes for adaptive radiotherapy (ART).
BACKGROUND: Online adaptive radiation therapy (RT) using hybrid magnetic resonance linear accelerators (MR-Linacs) can administer a tailored radiation dose at each treatment fraction. Daily MR imaging followed by organ and target segmentation adjustm...
BACKGROUND: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive, irreversible, and usually fatal lung disease of unknown reasons, generally affecting the elderly population. Early diagnosis of IPF is crucial for triaging patients' treatment planning...
BACKGROUND: Recently, patient rotating devices for gantry-free radiotherapy, a new approach to implement external beam radiotherapy, have been introduced. When a patient is rotated in the horizontal position, gravity causes anatomic deformation. For ...
BACKGROUND: Weak correlation between gamma passing rates and dose differences in target volumes and organs at risk (OARs) has been reported in several studies. Evaluation on the differences between planned dose-volume histogram (DVH) and reconstructe...
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