Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Dec 31, 2018
PURPOSE: To design a deep learning algorithm that automatically delineates lung tumors seen on weekly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans acquired during radiotherapy and facilitates the analysis of geometric tumor changes.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Nov 1, 2018
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Recurrence is the main risk for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) and few prognostic biomarkers were reported. In this study, we proposed a novel deep learning (DL) method to extract prognostic biomarkers from preoperat...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Sep 19, 2018
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Permanent seed brachytherapy is an established treatment option for localized prostate cancer. Currently, post-implant dosimetry is performed on CT images despite challenging target delineation due to limited soft tissue contr...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Aug 7, 2018
BACKGROUND: H3K27M is the most frequent mutation in brainstem gliomas (BSGs), and it has great significance in the differential diagnosis, prognostic prediction and treatment strategy selection of BSGs. There has been a lack of reliable noninvasive m...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jun 12, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a technology with the power to transform established industries, and with applications from automated manufacturing to advertising and facial recognition to fully autonomous transportation. Advances in each...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Apr 5, 2018
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There are two significant challenges when implementing functional-guided radiotherapy using 4DCT-ventilation imaging: (1) lack of knowledge of realistic patient specific dosimetric goals for functional lung and (2) ensuring co...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Dec 6, 2017
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The gross tumour volume (GTV) is predictive of clinical outcome and consequently features in many machine-learned models. 4D-planning, however, has prompted substitution of the GTV with the internal gross target volume (iGTV)....
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Nov 20, 2017
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Clinical decision support systems are a growing class of tools with the potential to impact healthcare. This study investigates the construction of a decision support system through which clinicians can efficiently identify wh...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
May 27, 2016
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Severe acute mucositis commonly results from head and neck (chemo)radiotherapy. A predictive model of mucositis could guide clinical decision-making and inform treatment planning. We aimed to generate such a model using spatia...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Mar 22, 2016
PURPOSE: A study of real-time adaptive radiotherapy systems was performed to test the hypothesis that, across delivery systems and institutions, the dosimetric accuracy is improved with adaptive treatments over non-adaptive radiotherapy in the presen...