Quality indicators for radiation oncology

SV Harden, KL Chiew, J Millar… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quality Indicators, based on clinical practice guidelines, have been used in medicine and
within oncology to measure quality of care for over twenty years. However, radiation …

Multimodal deep learning methods on image and textual data to predict radiotherapy structure names

P Bose, P Rana, WC Sleeman IV, S Srinivasan… - …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Structure name standardization is a critical problem in Radiotherapy
planning systems to correctly identify the various Organs-at-Risk, Planning Target Volumes …

[HTML][HTML] A Machine Learning method for relabeling arbitrary DICOM structure sets to TG-263 defined labels

WC Sleeman IV, J Nalluri, K Syed, P Ghosh… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose: To present a Machine Learning pipeline for automatically relabeling
anatomical structure sets in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) …

Integrated natural language processing and machine learning models for standardizing radiotherapy structure names

K Syed, W Sleeman IV, K Ivey, M Hagan, J Palta… - Healthcare, 2020 - mdpi.com
The lack of standardized structure names in radiotherapy (RT) data limits interoperability,
data sharing, and the ability to perform big data analysis. To standardize radiotherapy …

Consensus quality measures and dose constraints for breast cancer from the veterans affairs radiation oncology quality surveillance program and american society for …

LL Puckett, D Kodali, AA Solanki, JH Park… - Practical radiation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Using evidence-based radiation therapy to direct care for patients with breast
cancer is critical to standardize practice, improve safety, and optimize outcomes. To address …

Consensus quality measures and dose constraints for prostate cancer from the veterans affairs radiation oncology quality surveillance program and American society …

AA Solanki, LL Puckett, K Kujundzic… - Practical radiation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose There are no agreed upon measures to comprehensively determine the quality of
radiation oncology (RO) care delivered for prostate cancer. Consequently, it is difficult to …

Consensus quality measures and dose constraints for lung cancer from the veterans affairs radiation oncology quality surveillance program and ASTRO expert panel

LL Puckett, M Titi, K Kujundzic, SL Dawes… - Practical radiation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose For patients with lung cancer, it is critical to provide evidence-based radiation
therapy to ensure high-quality care. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National …

[HTML][HTML] Strategic initiatives for veterans with lung cancer

D Moghanaki, M Hagan - Federal Practitioner, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among veterans—as
well as the US population—despite veterans' access to advanced medical technologies …

Multi-view data integration methods for radiotherapy structure name standardization

K Syed, WC Sleeman IV, M Hagan, J Palta, R Kapoor… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Structure names associated with radiotherapy treatments need
standardization to develop data pipelines enabling personalized treatment plans. Automatic …

[HTML][HTML] Centralized Quality Assurance of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Study Number 2005: A Phase 3 …

TA Ritter, RD Timmerman, HI Hanfi, H Shi… - Practical Radiation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose The phase 3 Veterans Affairs Lung Cancer Surgery Or Stereotactic Radiotherapy
study implemented centralized quality assurance (QA) to mitigate risks of protocol …