Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 31, 2024
PURPOSE: This study investigated imaging biomarkers derived from PSMA-PET acquired pre- and post-metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) to predict 2-year metastasis-free survival (MFS), which provides valuable early response assessment to improve patient ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 14, 2024
PURPOSE: To develop a combined radiomics and deep learning (DL) model in predicting radiation esophagitis (RE) of a grade ≥ 2 for patients with esophageal cancer (EC) underwent volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) based on computed tomography (CT)...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 3, 2024
OBJECTIVES: This work aims to explore the impact of multicenter data heterogeneity on deep learning brain metastases (BM) autosegmentation performance, and assess the efficacy of an incremental transfer learning technique, namely learning without for...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jun 15, 2024
Synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a substitute for planning CT in radiation therapy (RT), thereby removing registration uncertainties associated with multi-modality imaging pairing, reduc...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jun 8, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Use of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for central lung tumors can result in up to a 35% incidence of late pulmonary toxicity. We evaluated an automated scoring method to quantify post-SABR bronchial changes by using artificia...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jun 3, 2024
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Artificial Intelligence (AI) models in radiation therapy are being developed with increasing pace. Despite this, the radiation therapy community has not widely adopted these models in clinical practice. A cohesive guideline on...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
May 26, 2024
BACKGROUND: Accurate segmentation of lung tumors on chest computed tomography (CT) scans is crucial for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Deep Learning (DL) has emerged as a promising tool in medical imaging, particularly for lung cancer se...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
May 22, 2024
BACKGROUND: Volume of interest (VOI) segmentation is a crucial step for Radiomics analyses and radiotherapy (RT) treatment planning. Because it can be time-consuming and subject to inter-observer variability, we developed and tested a Deep Learning-b...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
May 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: Lymphopenia is known for its significance on poor survivals in breast cancer patients. Considering full dosimetric data, this study aimed to develop and validate predictive models for lymphopenia after radiotherapy (RT) in breast cancer.