BACKGROUND: A knowledge-based radiation therapy (KBRT) treatment planning algorithm was recently developed. The purpose of this work is to investigate how plans that are generated with the objective KBRT approach compare to those that rely on the jud...
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...
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.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 1, 2025
PURPOSES: This study aimed to develop a computed tomography (CT)-based multi-organ segmentation model for delineating organs-at-risk (OARs) in pediatric upper abdominal tumors and evaluate its robustness across multiple datasets.
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)
Jun 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: The tangential field-in-field (FIF) technique is a widely used method in breast radiation therapy, known for its efficiency and the reduced number of fields required in treatment planning. However, it is labor-intensive, requiring manual ...
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)
Jun 1, 2025
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The image quality of single-energy CT (SECT) limited the accuracy of automatic segmentation. Dual-energy CT (DECT) may potentially improve automatic segmentation yet the performance and strategy have not been investigated thor...
This study investigates key factors influencing deep learning-based dose prediction models for head and neck cancer radiation therapy. The goal is to evaluate model accuracy, robustness, and computational efficiency, and to identify key components ne...
PURPOSE: Accurate pre-treatment dose prediction is essential for efficient radiotherapy planning. Although deep learning models have advanced automated dose distribution, comprehensive multi-tumor analyses remain scarce. This study assesses deep lear...
Uncertainty assessment of deep learning autosegmentation (DLAS) models can support contour corrections in adaptive radiotherapy (ART), e.g. by utilizing Monte Carlo Dropout (MCD) uncertainty maps. However, poorly calibrated uncertainties at the patie...
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