Machine- and patient-specific quality assurance (QA) is essential to ensure the safety and accuracy of radiotherapy. QA methods have become complex, especially in high-precision radiotherapy such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and vo...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
39222847
PURPOSE: To validate a CT-based deep learning (DL) hippocampal segmentation model trained on a single-institutional dataset and explore its utility for multi-institutional contour quality assurance (QA).
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)
39191190
PURPOSE: To evaluate a deep learning model's performance in predicting and classifying patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) results for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), aiming to streamline PSQA workflows and reduce the onsite measuremen...
Studies in health technology and informatics
39176821
Defacing of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is a crucial process in medical imaging research aimed at preserving patient privacy while maintaining data integrity. However, existing defacing algorithms are prone to errors, potentially com...
Studies in health technology and informatics
39176595
Digital health solutions hold promise for enhancing healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, primarily driven by advancements such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science, which enable the development of integrated care system...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
39159677
INTRODUCTION: New radiotherapy machines such as Halcyon are capable of delivering dose-rate of 600 monitor-units per minute, allowing large numbers of patients treated per day. However, patient-specific quality assurance (QA) is still required, which...
BACKGROUND: Quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies (QUADAS), and more recently QUADAS-2, were developed to aid the evaluation of methodological quality within primary diagnostic accuracy studies. However, its current form, QUADAS-2 does no...
PURPOSE: Retrospectively compare image quality, radiologist diagnostic confidence, and time for images to reach PACS for contrast enhanced abdominopelvic CT examinations created on the scanner console by technologists versus those generated automatic...
This paper describes the use of digital solutions to improve the care of trauma patients in Germany. The focus is on the trauma networks of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie, DGU). The use of digital sol...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
39327643
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...