OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to help a team of physicians and knowledge engineers acquire clinical knowledge from existing practices datasets for treatment of head and neck cancer, to validate the knowledge against published guidelines, ...
CONCLUSION: The addition of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in the diagnostic management of patients classified with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary (SCCUP) is promising and appears to improve detection rates of the primary ...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
May 6, 2015
PURPOSE: Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) is an advanced field of radiation oncology. Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) methods can support daily setup and assess anatomical variations during therapy, which could prevent incorrect dose distributi...
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
Jan 30, 2015
PURPOSE: Automated and knowledge-based planning techniques aim to reduce variations in plan quality. RapidPlan uses a library consisting of different patient plans to make a model that can predict achievable dose-volume histograms (DVHs) for new pati...
Dysregulated microRNAs (miRNAs) play a significant role in cancer development and metastasis. In literature, miRNAs have been used for the survival prediction of different types of cancers using AI. Although AI is useful for diagnosis and prognosis p...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
We developed a novel method for leveraging large language models (LLM) to systematically filter and categorize large numbers of clinical quality indicators (CQI) for head and neck cancer. This was used to transform a tedious, human-resource intensive...
Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery
Aug 1, 2025
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review seeks to describe the current state of virtual surgical planning (VSP) for head and neck free flap reconstruction, highlighting recent advancements, future directions, and outstanding limitations.
International journal of medical informatics
Aug 1, 2025
PURPOSE: To develop an AI-based diagnostic model for assessing cervical lymph nodes in head and neck malignant tumors using MRI, enabling non-invasive pre-surgical metastasis diagnosis.
Safe deployment of auto-contouring models requires the inclusion of automated quality assurance (QA). One such approach is to use two independent auto-contouring models and compare them geometrically for acceptability. This is not effective because g...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Jul 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to develop a novel deep learning model, U-Attention-Net (UA-Net), for precise segmentation of parotid glands on radiotherapy localization CT images.
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