Radiotherapy treatment scheduling considering time window preferences

B Vieira, D Demirtas, JB van de Kamer… - Health care …, 2020 - Springer
External-beam radiotherapy treatments are delivered by a linear accelerator (linac) in a
series of high-energy radiation sessions over multiple days. With the increase in the …

A column generation-based heuristic for brachytherapy patient scheduling with multiple treatment sessions considering radioactive source decay and time constraints

K Shao, W Fan, S Lan, M Kong, S Yang - Omega, 2023 - Elsevier
Imbalanced and inefficient schedules of brachytherapy treatment result in long waiting times
and a large number of waiting patients, which may raise many subsequent problems. In this …

A mathematical programming model for optimizing the staff allocation in radiotherapy under uncertain demand

B Vieira, D Demirtas, JB van de Kamer… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
As the number of people diagnosed with cancer increases, demand for radiotherapy (RT)
services has been continuously growing. In RT, delays in the start of treatment have shown …

RASON: A new approach to the scheduling radiotherapy problem that considers the current waiting times

MC Riff, JP Cares, B Neveu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
Scheduling Radiotherapy treatments for cancer patient is a major concern for hospital and
clinics. The main problem consists in minimizing the patient waiting time in order to …

[HTML][HTML] Utilizing online stochastic optimization on scheduling of intensity-modulate radiotherapy therapy (IMRT)

WH Chang, SM Lo, TL Chen, JC Chen… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract According to Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan, cancer has been one of the
major causes of death in Taiwan since 1982. The Intensive-Modulated Radiation Therapy …

Coupled task scheduling with time-dependent processing times

M Khatami, A Salehipour - Journal of Scheduling, 2021 - Springer
The single machine coupled task scheduling problem includes a set of jobs, each with two
separated tasks, and there is an exact delay between the tasks. We investigate the single …

[PDF][PDF] Mixed-Integer Linear programming for scheduling of radiotherapy patients.

N Emsamrit, C Boonmee - Engineering & Applied Science …, 2024 - researchgate.net
This study presents an advanced mathematical model to optimize the scheduling of
radiotherapy patients, thereby expediting solution discovery. The paper commences with an …

A mathematical programming model for radiotherapy scheduling with time windows

B Vieira, D Demirtas, JB Kamer, EW Hans… - … , May 30-June 1, 2019 4, 2020 - Springer
In external-beam radiotherapy (RT), high-energy radiation beams are delivered by a linear
accelerator in a series of irradiation sessions undertaken over multiple days. In this work, we …

[PDF][PDF] AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO SCHEDULING THE PRE-TREATMENT AND TREATMENT PHASE IN RADIOTHERAPY

G Bauwens - libstore.ugent.be
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy in short aims to kill or shrink malignant tumors by applying
high-energy radiation. It is commonly used as the main form of treatment for cancer …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Combining Benders and Dantzig-Wolfe Decompositions for Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization

A Legrain, M Widmer, N Lahrichi, LM Rousseau - 2016 - cirrelt.ca
Online resource allocation problems are difficult because the operator must make
irrevocable decisions rapidly and with limited (or nonexistent) information on future requests …