[HTML][HTML] Quality assurance for AI-based applications in radiation therapy

M Claessens, CS Oria, CL Brouwer, BP Ziemer… - Seminars in radiation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) in the domain of radiation therapy (RT)
and their integration into modern software-based systems raise new challenges to the …

Plan quality in radiotherapy treatment planning–Review of the factors and challenges

CR Hansen, M Hussein, U Bernchou… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A high‐quality treatment plan aims to best achieve the clinical prescription, balancing high
target dose to maximise tumour control against sufficiently low organ‐at‐risk dose for …

[HTML][HTML] A joint ESTRO and AAPM guideline for development, clinical validation and reporting of artificial intelligence models in radiation therapy

C Hurkmans, JE Bibault, KK Brock, W van Elmpt… - Radiotherapy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and purpose Artificial Intelligence (AI) models in radiation therapy are
being developed with increasing pace. Despite this, the radiation therapy community has not …

Generating deliverable DICOM RT treatment plans for prostate VMAT by predicting MLC motion sequences with an encoder‐decoder network

G Heilemann, L Zimmermann, R Schotola… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Deep learning‐based auto‐planning is an active research field; however, for
some tasks a treatment planning system (TPS) is still required. Purpose To introduce a deep …

[HTML][HTML] A multicentre evaluation of dosiomics features reproducibility, stability and sensitivity

L Placidi, E Gioscio, C Garibaldi, T Rancati, A Fanizzi… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Dosiomics is born directly as an extension of radiomics: it entails extracting
features from the patients' three-dimensional (3D) radiotherapy dose distribution rather than …

[HTML][HTML] Plan quality assessment in clinical practice: Results of the 2020 ESTRO survey on plan complexity and robustness

LP Kaplan, L Placidi, A Bäck, R Canters… - Radiotherapy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Plan complexity and robustness are two essential aspects of treatment plan quality
but there is a great variability in their management in clinical practice. This study reports the …

Robustness evaluation of pencil beam scanning proton therapy treatment planning: A systematic review

E Sterpin, L Widesott, K Poels, M Hoogeman… - Radiotherapy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Compared to conventional radiotherapy using X-rays, proton therapy, in principle, allows
better conformity of the dose distribution to target volumes, at the cost of greater sensitivity to …

Multi‐institutional investigation into the robustness of intra‐cranial multi‐target stereotactic radiosurgery plans to delivery errors

L May, N Hardcastle, V Hernandez, J Saez… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The use of modulated techniques for intra‐cranial stereotactic radiosurgery
(SRS) results in highly modulated fields with small apertures, which may be susceptible to …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial Intelligence–Based Autosegmentation: Advantages in Delineation, Absorbed Dose-Distribution, and Logistics

GR Sarria, F Kugel, F Roehner, J Layer… - Advances in Radiation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose The study's purpose was to compare the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) in
auto-contouring compared with a human practitioner in terms of precision, differences in …

[HTML][HTML] Updating a clinical Knowledge-Based Planning prediction model for prostate radiotherapy

A Scaggion, M Fusella, S Cavinato, F Dusi… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Clinical knowledge-based planning (KBP) models dedicated to
prostate radiotherapy treatment may require periodical updates to remain relevant and to …