Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jan 20, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a prediction model for 2-year overall survival (OS) in stage I-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who received definitive radiotherapy by considering clinical var...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jan 16, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The problem of obtaining accurate primary gross tumor volume (GTVp) segmentation for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) on heterogeneous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images with deep learning remains unsolved. Herein, we repor...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Nov 12, 2022
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Deep Learning (DL) technique has shown great potential but still has limited success in online contouring for MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART). This study proposed a patient-specific DL auto-segmentation (DLAS) strateg...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Nov 1, 2022
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To investigate the performance of head-and-neck (HN) organs-at-risk (OAR) automatic segmentation (AS) using four atlas-based (ABAS) and two deep learning (DL) solutions.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Sep 24, 2022
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: This study aims to investigate how accurate our deep learning (DL) dose prediction models for intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and pencil beam scanning (PBS) treatments, when chained with normal tissue complication prob...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Sep 5, 2022
INTRODUCTION: This study aims to apply a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) to generate synthetic Computed Tomography (sCT) from 0.35 Tesla Magnetic Resonance (MR) images of the thorax.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Aug 10, 2022
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Changes of healthy appearing brain tissue after radiotherapy (RT) have been previously observed. Patients undergoing RT may have a higher risk of cognitive decline, leading to a reduced quality of life. The experienced tissue ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 9, 2022
PURPOSE: To introduce and validate a newly developed deep-learning (DL) auto-segmentation algorithm for head and neck (HN) organs at risk (OARs) and to compare its performance with a published commercial algorithm.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
May 23, 2022
AIM: To train and validate a comprehensive deep-learning (DL) segmentation model for loco-regional breast cancer with the aim of clinical implementation.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Apr 21, 2022
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: Radiation therapy (RT) for the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) leads to side effects that can limit a person's oral intake. Early identification of patients who need aggressive nutrition supplementation via a...