Automation in intensity modulated radiotherapy treatment planning—a review of recent innovations

M Hussein, BJM Heijmen, D Verellen… - The British journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Radiotherapy treatment planning of complex radiotherapy techniques, such as intensity
modulated radiotherapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy, is a resource-intensive …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive radiotherapy enabled by MRI guidance

A Hunt, VN Hansen, U Oelfke, S Nill, S Hafeez - Clinical Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) strategies systematically monitor variations in target and
neighbouring structures to inform treatment-plan modification during radiotherapy. This is …

Online adaptive planning methods for intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Z Qiu, S Olberg, D den Hertog, A Ajdari… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Online adaptive radiation therapy aims at adapting a patient's treatment plan to their current
anatomy to account for inter-fraction variations before daily treatment delivery. As this …

A DVH‐guided IMRT optimization algorithm for automatic treatment planning and adaptive radiotherapy replanning

M Zarepisheh, T Long, N Li, Z Tian… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To develop a novel algorithm that incorporates prior treatment knowledge into
intensity modulated radiation therapy optimization to facilitate automatic treatment planning …

Advances in automated treatment planning

D Nguyen, MH Lin, D Sher, W Lu, X Jia… - Seminars in radiation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Treatment planning in radiation therapy has progressed enormously over the past several
decades. Such advancements came in the form of innovative hardware and algorithms …

Inverse optimization of objective function weights for treatment planning using clinical dose-volume histograms

A Babier, JJ Boutilier, MB Sharpe… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We developed and evaluated a novel inverse optimization (IO) model to estimate objective
function weights from clinical dose-volume histograms (DVHs). These weights were used to …

Techniques for adaptive prostate radiotherapy

N McVicar, IA Popescu, E Heath - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Variations in the position and shape of the prostate make accurate setup and treatment
challenging. Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) techniques seek to alter the treatment plan, at …

Predicting treatment plan approval probability for high-dose-rate brachytherapy of cervical cancer using adversarial deep learning

Y Gao, Y Gonzalez, C Nwachukwu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Predicting the probability of having the plan approved by the physician is
important for automatic treatment planning. Driven by the mathematical foundation of deep …

Simultaneous delivery time and aperture shape optimization for the volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning problem

M Mahnam, M Gendreau, N Lahrichi… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we propose a novel heuristic algorithm for the volumetric-modulated arc
therapy treatment planning problem, optimizing the trade-off between delivery time and …

Inverse 4D conformal planning for lung SBRT using particle swarm optimization

A Modiri, X Gu, A Hagan, R Bland… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A critical aspect of highly potent regimens such as lung stereotactic body radiation therapy
(SBRT) is to avoid collateral toxicity while achieving planning target volume (PTV) coverage …