Local hyperthermia combined with radiotherapy and-/or chemotherapy: Recent advances and promises for the future

NR Datta, SG Ordóñez, US Gaipl, MM Paulides… - Cancer treatment …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hyperthermia, one of the oldest forms of cancer treatment involves selective heating of tumor
tissues to temperatures ranging between 39 and 45° C. Recent developments based on the …

Texture analysis of imaging: what radiologists need to know

BA Varghese, SY Cen, DH Hwang… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. Radiologic texture is the variation in image intensities within an image and is
an important part of radiomics. The objective of this article is to discuss some parameters …

Segmentation of organs‐at‐risks in head and neck CT images using convolutional neural networks

B Ibragimov, L Xing - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Accurate segmentation of organs‐at‐risks (OAR s) is the key step for efficient
planning of radiation therapy for head and neck (HaN) cancer treatment. In the work, we …

Auto‐segmentation of organs at risk for head and neck radiotherapy planning: from atlas‐based to deep learning methods

T Vrtovec, D Močnik, P Strojan, F Pernuš… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the basic treatment modalities for cancer of the head and neck
(H&N), which requires a precise spatial description of the target volumes and organs at risk …

Hyperthermia and radiotherapy in the management of head and neck cancers: A systematic review and meta-analysis

NR Datta, S Rogers, SG Ordóñez, E Puric… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the outcome of
controlled clinical trials in head and neck cancers (HNCs) using hyperthermia and …

A preliminary experience of implementing deep-learning based auto-segmentation in head and neck cancer: a study on real-world clinical cases

Y Zhong, Y Yang, Y Fang, J Wang, W Hu - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Purpose While artificial intelligence has shown great promise in organs-at-risk (OARs) auto
segmentation for head and neck cancer (HNC) radiotherapy, to reach the level of clinical …

A clinical evaluation of the performance of five commercial artificial intelligence contouring systems for radiotherapy

PJ Doolan, S Charalambous, Y Roussakis… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose/objective (s) Auto-segmentation with artificial intelligence (AI) offers an opportunity
to reduce inter-and intra-observer variability in contouring, to improve the quality of contours …

More accurate and efficient segmentation of organs‐at‐risk in radiotherapy with convolutional neural networks cascades

K Men, H Geng, C Cheng, H Zhong, M Huang… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Manual delineation of organs‐at‐risk (OAR s) in radiotherapy is both time‐
consuming and subjective. Automated and more accurate segmentation is of the utmost …

Status quo and directions in deep head and neck hyperthermia

MM Paulides, GM Verduijn, N Van Holthe - Radiation Oncology, 2016 - Springer
The benefit of hyperthermia as a potent modifier of radiotherapy has been well established
and more recently also the combination with chemotherapy was shown beneficial. Also for …

Dosimetric comparison of autocontouring techniques for online adaptive proton therapy

A Smolders, E Choulilitsa, K Czerska… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Anatomical and daily set-up uncertainties impede high precision delivery of
proton therapy. With online adaptation, the daily plan is reoptimized on an image taken …