Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Mar 24, 2024
BACKGROUND: Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) of the myocardium has significant diagnostic and prognostic implications, with even small areas of enhancement being important. Distinguishing between definitely normal and definitely abnormal LGE images ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Jul 4, 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Previous studies on automatic delineation quality assurance (QA) have mostly focused on CT-based planning. As MRI-guided radiotherapy is increasingly utilized in prostate cancer treatment, there is a need for more research on ...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Oct 6, 2022
To predict the gamma passing rate (GPR) of the three-dimensional (3D) detector array-based volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) quality assurance (QA) for prostate cancer using a convolutional neural network (CNN) with the 3D dose distribution. On...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Aug 3, 2021
In order to deliver accurate and safe treatment to cancer patients in radiation therapy using advanced techniques such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric-arc radiation therapy (VMAT), patient specific quality assurance (QA...
Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique
Jun 24, 2021
In radiotherapy, patient-specific quality assurance is very time-consuming and causes machine downtime. It consists of testing (using measurement with a phantom and detector) if a modulated plan is correctly delivered by a treatment unit. Artificial ...
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
Nov 13, 2020
PURPOSE: Our purpose was to assess the use of machine learning methods and Mobius 3D (M3D) dose calculation software to reduce the number of physical ion chamber (IC) dose measurements required for patient-specific quality assurance during corona vir...
BACKGROUND: The US population is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Research suggests that cultural diversity within organizations can increase team potency and performance, yet this theory has not been explored in the field of surgery. F...
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)
Apr 21, 2020
The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of dose difference maps with a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect multi-leaf collimator (MLC) positional errors in patient-specific quality assurance for volumetric modulated radiation therapy (...
Journal of medical imaging and radiation sciences
Feb 27, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) approaches have caught the attention of many in health care. Current literature suggests there are many potential benefits that could transform future clinical workflows and decision making. Embe...
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