Improving the quality of care in radiation oncology using artificial intelligence

SMH Luk, EC Ford, MH Phillips, AM Kalet - Clinical Oncology, 2022 - Elsevier
Radiation therapy is a complex process involving multiple professionals and steps from
simulation to treatment planning to delivery, and these procedures are prone to error …

Radiation therapy quality assurance tasks and tools: the many roles of machine learning

AM Kalet, SMH Luk, MH Phillips - Medical physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The recent explosion in machine learning efforts in the quality assurance (QA) space has
produced a variety of proofs‐of‐concept many with promising results. Expected outcomes of …

Strategies for effective physics plan and chart review in radiation therapy: Report of AAPM Task Group 275

E Ford, L Conroy, L Dong, LF de Los Santos… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background While the review of radiotherapy treatment plans and charts by a medical
physicist is a key component of safe, high‐quality care, very few specific recommendations …

Medical Physics Practice Guideline (MPPG) 11. a: Plan and chart review in external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy

P Xia, BJ Sintay, VC Colussi, C Chuang… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A therapeutic medical physicist is responsible for reviewing radiation therapy treatment
plans and patient charts, including initial treatment plans and new chart review, on treatment …

Proof‐of‐concept study of artificial intelligence‐assisted review of CBCT image guidance

J Neylon, DC Luximon, T Ritter… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Automation and computer assistance can support quality assurance tasks in
radiotherapy. Retrospective image review requires significant human resources, and …

Automatic quality assurance of radiotherapy treatment plans using Bayesian networks: A multi-institutional study

P Kalendralis, SMH Luk, R Canters, D Eyssen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Artificial intelligence applications in radiation oncology have been the focus of
study in the last decade. The introduction of automated and intelligent solutions for routine …

Development and performance of a software tool for quality assurance of online replanning with a conventional Linac or MR‐Linac

GP Chen, E Ahunbay, XA Li - Medical Physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To develop an integrated quality assurance (QA) software tool for online
replanning capable of efficiently and automatically checking radiation treatment (RT) …

Characterization of a Bayesian network‐based radiotherapy plan verification model

SMH Luk, J Meyer, LA Young, N Cao, EC Ford… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The current process for radiotherapy treatment plan quality assurance relies on
human inspection of treatment plans, which is time‐consuming, error prone and oft reliant on …

Software tool for physics chart checks

HH Li, Y Wu, D Yang, S Mutic - Practical Radiation Oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose Physics chart check has long been a central quality assurance (QC) measure in
radiation oncology. The purpose of this work is to describe a software tool that aims to …

Clinical physicists' perceptions of weekly chart checks and the potential role for automated image review assessed by structured interviews

R Petragallo, DC Luximon, J Neylon… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study utilizes interviews of clinical medical physicists to investigate self‐
reported shortcomings of the current weekly chart check workflow and opportunities for …