BACKGROUND: Proton therapy is commonly used for treating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); however, its feasibility can be challenging to assess in large tumors or those adjacent to critical organs at risk (OARs), which are typically assessed only afte...
PURPOSE: In study, we aimed to dosimetrically evaluate the usability of a new generation autocontouring algorithm (DirectORGANS) that automatically identifies organs and contours them directly in the computed tomography (CT) simulator before creating...
Radiotherapy (RT) has become increasingly sophisticated, necessitating advanced tools for analyzing extensive treatment data in hospital databases. Such analyses can enhance future treatments, particularly through Knowledge-Based Planning, and aid in...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 15, 2025
BACKGROUND: Accurate delineation of organs at risk (OARs) is crucial for precision radiotherapy. Most previous autosegmentation models were only constructed for single anatomical region without evaluation of dosimetric impact. We aimed to validate th...
Deep learning has been used for automatic planning of radiotherapy targets, such as inferring the clinical target volume (CTV) for a given new patient. However, previous deep learning methods mainly focus on predicting CTV from CT images without cons...
Beam orientation optimization (BOO) in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a complex, non-convex problem traditionally addressed with heuristic methods.This work demonstrates the potential improvement of the proposed BOO, providing a math...
To facilitate implementation of plan-of-the-day (POTD) selection for treating locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC), we developed a POTD assessment tool for CBCT-guided radiotherapy (RT). A female pelvis segmentation model (U-Seg3) is combined with...
This study aimed to develop a deep learning (DL)-based deliverable whole pelvic volumetric arc radiation therapy (VMAT) for patients with gynecologic cancer using a prototype DL-based automated planning support system, named RatoGuide, to evaluate it...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Apr 23, 2025
Prostate Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) is an ultra-hypofractionated treatment where small setup errors can lead to higher doses to organs at risk (OARs). Although bowel and bladder preparation protocols reduce inter-fraction variabil...
Head-and-neck simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) treatment planning using intensity modulated radiation therapy is particularly challenging due to the proximity to organs-at-risk. Depending on the specific clinical conditions, different parotid-spar...
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