AIMC Topic: Quality Assurance, Health Care

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Explainable one-class feature extraction by adaptive resonance for anomaly detection in quality assurance.

PloS one
In this study, we address the inherent challenges in radiotherapy (RT) plan quality assessment (QA). RT, a prevalent cancer treatment, utilizes high-energy beams to target tumors while sparing adjacent healthy tissues. Typically, an RT plan is refine...

Deep learning-based uncertainty quantification for quality assurance in hepatobiliary imaging-based techniques.

Oncotarget
Recent advances in deep learning models have transformed medical imaging analysis, particularly in radiology. This editorial outlines how uncertainty quantification through embedding-based approaches enhances diagnostic accuracy and reliability in he...

Development of an external quality assurance (EQA) structure to evaluate the quality of genetic pathology reporting.

Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry
A standard for reporting genetic pathology results currently does not exist as a consensus. While effective reports are produced, there is lack of consistency on which details to present or to emphasise, and the ultimate report often reflects an indi...

The Road Map for ACR Practice Accreditation for Radiology Artificial Intelligence.

Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow in radiology, it has become clear that its real-world performance often differs from that demonstrated in premarket testing, underscoring the need for robust quality management (QM) program...

Deep learning-based Monte Carlo dose prediction for heavy-ion online adaptive radiotherapy and fast quality assurance: A feasibility study.

Medical physics
BACKGROUND: Online adaptive radiotherapy (OART) and rapid quality assurance (QA) are essential for effective heavy ion therapy (HIT). However, there is a shortage of deep learning (DL) models and workflows for predicting Monte Carlo (MC) doses in suc...

Artificial Intelligence in Endoscopy Quality Measures.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy clinics of North America
Quality of gastrointestinal endoscopy is a major determinant of its effectiveness. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to enhance quality monitoring and improve endoscopy outcomes. This article reviews the current literature on AI algorith...

Efficient and accurate commissioning and quality assurance of radiosurgery beam via prior-embedded implicit neural representation learning.

Medical physics
BACKGROUND: Dosimetric commissioning and quality assurance (QA) for linear accelerators (LINACs) present a significant challenge for clinical physicists due to the high measurement workload and stringent precision standards. This challenge is exacerb...

A unified deep-learning framework for enhanced patient-specific quality assurance of intensity-modulated radiation therapy plans.

Medical physics
BACKGROUND: Modern radiation therapy techniques, such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT), use complex fluence modulation strategies to achieve optimal patient dose distribution. Ensuring their ...

A quality assessment tool for focused abdominal sonography for trauma examinations using artificial intelligence.

The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
BACKGROUND: Current tools to review focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) images for quality have poorly defined grading criteria or are developed to grade the skills of the sonographer and not the examination. The purpose of this study is t...

Quality and mechanical efficiency of automated knowledge-based planning for volumetric-modulated arc therapy in head and neck cancer.

Journal of applied clinical medical physics
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the automated RapidPlan in assessing plan quality and to explore how beam complexity affects the mechanical performance of volumetric modulated arc therapy for head and neck cancers.