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 …

Correlation of phantom‐based and log file patient‐specific QA with complexity scores for VMAT

CE Agnew, DM Irvine… - Journal of applied clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The motivation for this study was to reduce physics workload relating to patient‐specific
quality assurance (QA). VMAT plan delivery accuracy was determined from analysis of pre …

Radiation therapy workflow and dosimetric analysis from a phase 1/2 trial of noninvasive cardiac radioablation for ventricular tachycardia

NC Knutson, PP Samson, GD Hugo, SM Goddu… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose A prospective phase 1/2 trial for electrophysiologic guided noninvasive cardiac
radioablation treatment of ventricular tachycardia (ENCORE-VT) demonstrating efficacy for …

A tool for patient‐specific prediction of delivery discrepancies in machine parameters using trajectory log files

KC Chuang, W Giles, J Adamson - Medical Physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Multileaf collimator (MLC) delivery discrepancy between planned and actual
(delivered) positions have detrimental effect on the accuracy of dose distributions for both …

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 …

Automating linear accelerator quality assurance

T Eckhause, H Al‐Hallaq, T Ritter, J DeMarco… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this study was 2‐fold. One purpose was to develop an automated,
streamlined quality assurance (QA) program for use by multiple centers. The second …

Evaluation of MLC performance in VMAT and dynamic IMRT by log file analysis

J Olasolo-Alonso, A Vázquez-Galiñanes… - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose This multi-institution study assessed the positioning accuracy of multileaf
collimators (MLC) by analyzing log files. It determined the main machine parameters that …

Validation of a modern second‐check dosimetry system using a novel verification phantom

DG McDonald, DJ Jacqmin, CJ Mart… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Purpose To evaluate the Mobius second‐check dosimetry system by comparing it to
ionization‐chamber dose measurements collected in the recently released Mobius …

Virtual patient‐specific QA with DVH‐based metrics

LM Lay, KC Chuang, Y Wu, W Giles… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate a virtual pretreatment patient‐specific QA (PSQA) procedure that is capable
of quantifying dosimetric effect on patient anatomy for both intensity modulated radiotherapy …