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 …

Multi-criteria optimization and decision-making in radiotherapy

S Breedveld, D Craft, R Van Haveren… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy (radiation therapy) is one of the main treatments for cancer. The aim is to
deliver a prescribed radiation dose to the tumor, while keeping the unavoidable dose to the …

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 …

Systems and methods for optimizing treatment planning

JO Sjölund - US Patent 11,056,243, 2021 - Google Patents
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices
for radiotherapy treatment planning. For example, a method may generate a treatment plan …

Automatic treatment plan re-optimization for adaptive radiotherapy guided with the initial plan DVHs

N Li, M Zarepisheh, A Uribe-Sanchez… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) can reduce normal tissue toxicity and/or improve tumor
control through treatment adaptations based on the current patient anatomy. Developing an …

A multi-criteria optimization approach for HDR prostate brachytherapy: I. Pareto surface approximation

S Cui, P Després, L Beaulieu - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy planning usually involves an iterative process of
refining planning objectives until a clinically acceptable plan is produced. The purpose of …

Systems and methods for determining radiation therapy machine parameter settings

LS Hibbard - US Patent 11,517,768, 2022 - Google Patents
Systems and methods can include a method for training a deep convolutional neural
network to provide a patient radiation treatment plan, the method comprising collecting …

A revised pascoletti–serafini scalarization method for multiobjective optimization problems

F Akbari, M Ghaznavi, E Khorram - Journal of Optimization Theory and …, 2018 - Springer
The presented study deals with the scalarization techniques for solving multiobjective
optimization problems. The Pascoletti–Serafini scalarization technique is considered, and it …