Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Dec 27, 2024
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Accurate segmentation of the clinical target volume (CTV) is essential to deliver an effective radiation dose to tumor tissues in cervical cancer radiotherapy. Also, although automated CTV segmentation can reduce oncologists' ...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Dec 19, 2024
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Knowledge-based planning (KBP) can consistently and efficiently create high-quality Volumetric Arc Therapy (VMAT) plans for cervix cancer. This study describes the cross-validation of two KBP models on geographically distinct ...
PURPOSE: The burden of cervical cancer in India is enormous, with more than 60,000 deaths being reported in 2020. The key intervention in the WHO's global strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer is to aim for the treatment and care of 90% of ...
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women's bodies after breast cancer. Cervical cancer develops from dysplasia or cervical intraepithelial neoplasm (CIN), the early stage of the disease, and is characterized by the aberrant growth of...
Cervical cancer is one of the biggest challenges in global health, thus it forms a critical need for early detection technologies that could improve patient prognosis and inform treatment decisions. This development in the form of an early detection ...
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization has set a global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer, emphasizing the need for cervical cancer screening coverage to reach 70%. In response, China has developed an action plan to accelerate the elimination ...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 15, 2024
BACKGROUND: Formulating a clinically acceptable plan within the time-constrained clinical setting of brachytherapy poses challenges to clinicians. Deep learning based dose prediction methods have shown favorable solutions for enhancing efficiency, bu...
Radiotherapy has been demonstrated to be one of the most significant treatments for cervical cancer, during which accurate and efficient delineation of target volumes is critical. To alleviate the data demand of deep learning and promote the establis...
INTRODUCTION: Women who receive a result of an abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) smear can fail to participate in follow up procedures, and this is often due to anxiety. This study aimed to apply artificial neural networks (ANN) in prediction of anxiety in...
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