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A deep 3D residual CNN for false-positive reduction in pulmonary nodule detection.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: The automatic detection of pulmonary nodules using CT scans improves the efficiency of lung cancer diagnosis, and false-positive reduction plays a significant role in the detection. In this paper, we focus on the false-positive reduction tas...

A machine learning approach to the accurate prediction of monitor units for a compact proton machine.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Clinical treatment planning systems for proton therapy currently do not calculate monitor units (MUs) in passive scatter proton therapy due to the complexity of the beam delivery systems. Physical phantom measurements are commonly employed t...

Interleaved 3D-CNNs for joint segmentation of small-volume structures in head and neck CT images.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Accurate 3D image segmentation is a crucial step in radiation therapy planning of head and neck tumors. These segmentation results are currently obtained by manual outlining of tissues, which is a tedious and time-consuming procedure. Automa...

Deep learning for segmentation of brain tumors: Impact of cross-institutional training and testing.

Medical physics
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly used for segmentation of brain tumors. In this work, we assess the effect of cross-institutional training on the performance of CNNs.

Feasibility of predicting tumor motion using online data acquired during treatment and a generalized neural network optimized with offline patient tumor trajectories.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: The accurate prediction of intrafraction lung tumor motion is required to compensate for system latency in image-guided adaptive radiotherapy systems. The goal of this study was to identify an optimal prediction model that has a short learni...

A deep learning method for classifying mammographic breast density categories.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Mammographic breast density is an established risk marker for breast cancer and is visually assessed by radiologists in routine mammogram image reading, using four qualitative Breast Imaging and Reporting Data System (BI-RADS) breast density...

Principal component reconstruction (PCR) for cine CBCT with motion learning from 2D fluoroscopy.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: This work aims to generate cine CT images (i.e., 4D images with high-temporal resolution) based on a novel principal component reconstruction (PCR) technique with motion learning from 2D fluoroscopic training images.

Deep reinforcement learning for automated radiation adaptation in lung cancer.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: To investigate deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based on historical treatment plans for developing automated radiation adaptation protocols for nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients that aim to maximize tumor local control at reduced r...