Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Nov 13, 2023
BACKGROUND: Manual detection of brain metastases is both laborious and inconsistent, driving the need for more efficient solutions. Accordingly, our systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the efficacy of deep learning algorithms in detecting an...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Oct 26, 2023
MRI-guided radiotherapy (MRIgRT) is a highly complex treatment modality, allowing adaptation to anatomical changes occurring from one treatment day to the other (inter-fractional), but also to motion occurring during a treatment fraction (intra-fract...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 4, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Previous studies on automatic delineation quality assurance (QA) have mostly focused on CT-based planning. As MRI-guided radiotherapy is increasingly utilized in prostate cancer treatment, there is a need for more research on ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 4, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Immunotherapy is a standard treatment for many tumor types. However, only a small proportion of patients derive clinical benefit and reliable predictive biomarkers of immunotherapy response are lacking. Although deep learning ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jun 30, 2023
PURPOSE: With the increased use of focal radiation dose escalation for primary prostate cancer (PCa), accurate delineation of gross tumor volume (GTV) in prostate-specific membrane antigen PET (PSMA-PET) becomes crucial. Manual approaches are time-co...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jun 16, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To date, data used in the development of Deep Learning-based automatic contouring (DLC) algorithms have been largely sourced from single geographic populations. This study aimed to evaluate the risk of population-based bias by...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
May 6, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Magnetic Resonance (MR)-only radiotherapy enables the use of MR without the uncertainty of MR-Computed Tomography (CT) registration. This requires a synthetic CT (sCT) for dose calculations, which can be facilitated by a novel...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Apr 28, 2023
PURPOSE: We previously developed a virtual treatment planner (VTP), an artificial intelligence robot, operating a treatment planning system (TPS). Using deep reinforcement learning guided by human knowledge, we trained the VTP to autonomously adjust ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Feb 25, 2023
PURPOSE: To develop a deep learning model that combines CT and radiation dose (RD) images to predict the occurrence of radiation pneumonitis (RP) in lung cancer patients who received radical (chemo)radiotherapy.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Feb 21, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Magnetic resonance imaging guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) with deformable multileaf collimator (MLC) tracking would allow to tackle both rigid displacement and tumor deformation without prolonging treatment. However, the system l...