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 …

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 …

Method, system and computer-readable media for treatment plan risk analysis

T Mcnutt, J Moore, S Robertson, F Marungo - US Patent 11,495,355, 2022 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, system and computer readable medium of: pro viding feature
data of at least one organ at risk or target volume of said patient from a database of non …

Method and system for automated quality assurance and automated treatment planning in radiation therapy

TG Purdie, CJ McIntosh, I Svistoun - US Patent 10,475,537, 2019 - Google Patents
Methods and systems for evaluating a proposed treatment plan for radiation therapy, for
evaluating one or more delineated regions of interest for radiation therapy, and/or for …

Initial evaluation of automated treatment planning software

D Gintz, K Latifi, J Caudell, B Nelms… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Even with advanced inverse‐planning techniques, radiation treatment plan optimization
remains a very time‐consuming task with great output variability, which prompted the …

Improving treatment plan evaluation with automation

EL Covington, X Chen, KC Younge… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of Plan‐Checker Tool (PCT) which was
created to improve first‐time plan quality, reduce patient delays, increase the efficiency of …

A method for a priori estimation of best feasible DVH for organs‐at‐risk: Validation for head and neck VMAT planning

S Ahmed, B Nelms, D Gintz, J Caudell… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Despite improvements in optimization and automation algorithms, the quality of
radiation treatment plans still varies dramatically. A tool that allows a priori estimation of the …

Common error pathways seen in the RO-ILS data that demonstrate opportunities for improving treatment safety

G Ezzell, B Chera, A Dicker, E Ford, L Potters… - Practical radiation …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose The Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System (RO-ILS) receives
event reports from facilities across the country. This effort extracted common error pathways …

Evaluation of a commercial automatic treatment planning system for prostate cancers

K Nawa, A Haga, A Nomoto, RA Sarmiento, K Shiraishi… - Medical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent developments in Radiation Oncology treatment planning have led to the
development of software packages that facilitate automated intensity-modulated radiation …