Evaluating and comparing algorithms for respiratory motion prediction

F Ernst, R Dürichen, A Schlaefer… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In robotic radiosurgery, it is necessary to compensate for systematic latencies arising from
target tracking and mechanical constraints. This compensation is usually achieved by …

A robotic approach to 4D real-time tumor tracking for radiotherapy

I Buzurovic, K Huang, Y Yu… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Respiratory and cardiac motions induce displacement and deformation of the tumor volumes
in various internal organs. To accommodate this undesired movement and other errors …

Implementation and experimental results of 4D tumor tracking using robotic couch

I Buzurovic, Y Yu, M Werner‐Wasik, T Biswas… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This study presents the implementation and experimental results of a novel
technique for 4D tumor tracking using a commercially available and commonly used …

An experimentally validated couch and MLC tracking simulator used to investigate hybrid couch‐MLC tracking

J Toftegaard, R Hansen, T Ravkilde, K Macek… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose/objective Couch and MLC tracking are two novel techniques to mitigate
intrafractional tumor motion on a conventional linear accelerator, but both techniques still …

Tumor motion prediction and tracking in adaptive radiotherapy

I Buzurovic, TK Podder, K Huang… - 2010 IEEE International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Respiratory and cardiac motions induce displacement and deformation of the tumor-volume
in various internal organs. To accommodate this undesired movement and other errors …

Active tracking and dynamic dose delivery for robotic couch in radiation therapy

I Buzurovic, Y Yu, TK Podder - 2011 Annual International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precise and accurate dose delivery is critically important in external beam radiation therapy.
In many cases target-volumes are stationary, but the problem arises when the tumors move …

Efficient multi-destinations route planning with deadlines and cost constraints

Y Huang, BH Lin, VS Tseng - 2017 18th IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, multi-destinations route planning has been the topic of much research,
which is an emerging branch of the route planning problem. The existing works have been …

Artificial neural networks to emulate and compensate breathing motion during radiation therapy

MJ Murphy - Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and …, 2015 - Springer
A number of treatment sites for external-beam radiation therapy, such as lung, breast,
pancreatic, and liver cancers, move as the patient breathes, which compromises the …

A comparative study of a novel AE-nLMS filter and two traditional filters in predicting respiration induced motion of the tumor

K Huang, I Buzurovic, Y Yu… - 2010 IEEE International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prediction of tumor motion is one of the important steps in active tracking of tumor and
dynamic delivery of radiation dose to tumor. In this paper, we have presented a novel …

Comparison between acceleration-enhanced adaptive filters and neural network filters for respiratory motion prediction

I Buzurovic, K Huang, TK Podder… - 11th Symposium on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prediction of respiration-induced organ motion is crucial in some applications such as
dynamic delivery of radiation dose. In this paper, we have proposed the novel approach to …