AIMC Topic: Brachytherapy

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Towards U-Net-based intraoperative 2D dose prediction in high dose rate prostate brachytherapy.

Brachytherapy
BACKGROUND: Poor needle placement in prostate high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) results in sub-optimal dosimetry and mentally predicting these effects during HDR-BT is difficult, creating a barrier to widespread availability of high-quality prost...

Automatic plan selection using deep network-A prostate study.

Medical physics
BACKGROUND: Recently, high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatment plans generation was improved with the development of multicriteria optimization (MCO) algorithms that can generate thousands of pareto optimal plans within seconds. This brings a shi...

Attention 3D UNET for dose distribution prediction of high-dose-rate brachytherapy of cervical cancer: Intracavitary applicators.

Journal of applied clinical medical physics
BACKGROUND: Formulating a clinically acceptable plan within the time-constrained clinical setting of brachytherapy poses challenges to clinicians. Deep learning based dose prediction methods have shown favorable solutions for enhancing efficiency, bu...

Deep learning-based segmentation for high-dose-rate brachytherapy in cervical cancer using 3D Prompt-ResUNet.

Physics in medicine and biology
To develop and evaluate a 3D Prompt-ResUNet module that utilized the prompt-based model combined with 3D nnUNet for rapid and consistent autosegmentation of high-risk clinical target volume (HRCTV) and organ at risk (OAR) in high-dose-rate brachyther...

Robotic MR-guided high dose rate brachytherapy needle implantation in the prostate (ROBiNSon)-a proof-of-concept study.

Physics in medicine and biology
A robotic needle implant device for MR-guided high-dose-rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy was developed. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and spatial accuracy of HDR brachytherapy using the robotic device, for a single intraprostatic target...

Automatic segmentation of high-risk clinical target volume and organs at risk in brachytherapy of cervical cancer with a convolutional neural network.

Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique
PURPOSE: This study aimed to design an autodelineation model based on convolutional neural networks for generating high-risk clinical target volumes and organs at risk in image-guided adaptive brachytherapy for cervical cancer.

Neural network dose prediction for cervical brachytherapy: Overcoming data scarcity for applicator-specific models.

Medical physics
BACKGROUND: 3D neural network dose predictions are useful for automating brachytherapy (BT) treatment planning for cervical cancer. Cervical BT can be delivered with numerous applicators, which necessitates developing models that generalize to multip...

Generalizability of deep learning in organ-at-risk segmentation: A transfer learning study in cervical brachytherapy.

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
PURPOSE: Deep learning can automate delineation in radiation therapy, reducing time and variability. Yet, its efficacy varies across different institutions, scanners, or settings, emphasizing the need for adaptable and robust models in clinical envir...

Rapid multi-catheter segmentation for magnetic resonance image-guided catheter-based interventions.

Medical physics
BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard for delineating cancerous lesions in soft tissue. Catheter-based interventions require the accurate placement of multiple long, flexible catheters at the target site. The manual segmen...

Deep learning for high-resolution dose prediction in high dose rate brachytherapy for breast cancer treatment.

Physics in medicine and biology
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are the benchmark for accurate radiotherapy dose calculations, notably in patient-specific high dose rate brachytherapy (HDR BT), in cases where considering tissue heterogeneities is critical. However, the lengthy computa...