Radiation oncology in the era of precision medicine

M Baumann, M Krause, J Overgaard, J Debus… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Technological advances and clinical research over the past few decades have given
radiation oncologists the capability to personalize treatments for accurate delivery of …

A review on application of deep learning algorithms in external beam radiotherapy automated treatment planning

M Wang, Q Zhang, S Lam, J Cai, R Yang - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Treatment planning plays an important role in the process of radiotherapy (RT). The quality
of the treatment plan directly and significantly affects patient treatment outcomes. In the past …

A feasibility study for predicting optimal radiation therapy dose distributions of prostate cancer patients from patient anatomy using deep learning

D Nguyen, T Long, X Jia, W Lu, X Gu, Z Iqbal… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
With the advancement of treatment modalities in radiation therapy for cancer patients,
outcomes have improved, but at the cost of increased treatment plan complexity and …

3D radiotherapy dose prediction on head and neck cancer patients with a hierarchically densely connected U-net deep learning architecture

D Nguyen, X Jia, D Sher, MH Lin, Z Iqbal… - Physics in medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The treatment planning process for patients with head and neck (H&N) cancer is regarded
as one of the most complicated due to large target volume, multiple prescription dose levels …

DoseNet: a volumetric dose prediction algorithm using 3D fully-convolutional neural networks

V Kearney, JW Chan, S Haaf… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of a novel fully-convolutional
volumetric dose prediction neural network (DoseNet) and test its performance on a cohort of …

Variation in external beam treatment plan quality: an inter-institutional study of planners and planning systems

BE Nelms, G Robinson, J Markham, K Velasco… - Practical radiation …, 2012 - Elsevier
Purpose This study quantifies variation in radiation treatment plan quality for plans
generated by a population of treatment planners given very specific plan objectives …

Predicting dose‐volume histograms for organs‐at‐risk in IMRT planning

LM Appenzoller, JM Michalski, WL Thorstad… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The objective of this work was to develop a quality control (QC) tool to reduce
intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) planning variability and improve treatment plan …

Knowledge‐based prediction of three‐dimensional dose distributions for external beam radiotherapy

S Shiraishi, KL Moore - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To demonstrate knowledge‐based 3D dose prediction for external beam
radiotherapy. Methods: Using previously treated plans as training data, an artificial neural …

Concepts and trends in autonomy for robot-assisted surgery

P Fiorini, KY Goldberg, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical robots have been widely adopted with over 4000 robots being used in practice
daily. However, these are telerobots that are fully controlled by skilled human surgeons …

A planning quality evaluation tool for prostate adaptive IMRT based on machine learning

X Zhu, Y Ge, T Li, D Thongphiew, FF Yin… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To ensure plan quality for adaptive IMRT of the prostate, we developed a
quantitative evaluation tool using a machine learning approach. This tool generates dose …