Applications and limitations of machine learning in radiation oncology

D Jarrett, E Stride, K Vallis… - The British journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Machine learning approaches to problem-solving are growing rapidly within healthcare, and
radiation oncology is no exception. With the burgeoning interest in machine learning comes …

Towards the interpretability of machine learning predictions for medical applications targeting personalised therapies: a cancer case survey

AJ Banegas-Luna, J Peña-García, A Iftene… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Artificial Intelligence is providing astonishing results, with medicine being one of its favourite
playgrounds. Machine Learning and, in particular, Deep Neural Networks are behind this …

Automatic treatment planning based on three‐dimensional dose distribution predicted from deep learning technique

J Fan, J Wang, Z Chen, C Hu, Z Zhang, W Hu - Medical physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop an automated treatment planning strategy for external beam intensity‐
modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), including a deep learning‐based three‐dimensional …

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 …

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 …

Fully automated treatment planning for head and neck radiotherapy using a voxel-based dose prediction and dose mimicking method

C McIntosh, M Welch, A McNiven… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent works in automated radiotherapy treatment planning have used machine learning
based on historical treatment plans to infer the spatial dose distribution for a novel patient …

Knowledge‐based automated planning with three‐dimensional generative adversarial networks

A Babier, R Mahmood, AL McNiven, A Diamant… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a knowledge‐based automated planning pipeline that generates
treatment plans without feature engineering, using deep neural network architectures for …

A transformer-embedded multi-task model for dose distribution prediction

L Wen, J **ao, S Tan, X Wu, J Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2023 - World Scientific
Radiation therapy is a fundamental cancer treatment in the clinic. However, to satisfy the
clinical requirements, radiologists have to iteratively adjust the radiotherapy plan based on …