Revolutionizing radiation therapy: the role of AI in clinical practice

M Kawamura, T Kamomae, M Yanagawa… - Journal of radiation …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This review provides an overview of the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiation
therapy (RT) from a radiation oncologist's perspective. Over the years, advances in …

Practical and technical key challenges in head and neck adaptive radiotherapy: The GORTEC point of view

N Delaby, A Barateau, S Chiavassa, MC Biston… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Anatomical variations occur during head and neck (H&N) radiotherapy (RT) treatment.
These variations may result in underdosage to the target volume or overdosage to the organ …

Automation and artificial intelligence in radiation therapy treatment planning

S Jones, K Thompson, B Porter… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is already possible for many radiation therapy
planning and treatment processes with the aim of improving workflows and increasing …

Validation of clinical acceptability of deep-learning-based automated segmentation of organs-at-risk for head-and-neck radiotherapy treatment planning

JJ Lucido, TA DeWees, TR Leavitt, A Anand… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Organ-at-risk segmentation for head and neck cancer radiation therapy is a
complex and time-consuming process (requiring up to 42 individual structure, and may …

Patient-specific neural networks for contour propagation in online adaptive radiotherapy

A Smolders, A Lomax, DC Weber… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. fast and accurate contouring of daily 3D images is a prerequisite for online
adaptive radiotherapy. Current automatic techniques rely either on contour propagation with …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical implementation and evaluation of auto-segmentation tools for multi-site contouring in radiotherapy

G Heilemann, M Buschmann, W Lechner, V Dick… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Tools for auto-segmentation in radiotherapy are widely available,
but guidelines for clinical implementation are missing. The goal was to develop a workflow …

Geometric and dosimetric evaluation for breast and regional nodal auto‐segmentation structures

T Tsui, A Podgorsak, JC Roeske… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) generated contours for intact‐breast and post‐
mastectomy radiotherapy plans was evaluated. Geometric and dosimetric comparisons were …

Evaluation of different algorithms for automatic segmentation of head-and-neck lymph nodes on CT images

M Costea, A Zlate, AA Serre, S Racadot… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate the performance of 4 atlas-based (multi-ABAS) and 2 deep learning
(DL) solutions for head-and-neck (HN) elective nodes (CTVn) automatic segmentation (AS) …

Segmentation by registration-enabled sam prompt engineering using five reference images

Y Chen, A Ivanova, SU Saeed, R Hargunani… - … on Biomedical Image …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The recently proposed Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a general tool for image
segmentation, but it requires additional adaptation and careful fine-tuning for medical image …

Performance analysis and knowledge-based quality assurance of critical organ auto-segmentation for pediatric craniospinal irradiation

EM Hanna, E Sargent, C Hua, TE Merchant, O Ates - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Craniospinal irradiation (CSI) is a vital therapeutic approach utilized for young patients
suffering from central nervous system disorders such as medulloblastoma. The task of …