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Radiation therapy is crucial in cancer treatment. Experienced experts typically iteratively generate high-quality dose distribution maps, forming the basis for excellent radiation therapy plans. Therefore, automated prediction of dose…

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This paper examines the statistical mechanical and thermodynamical consequences of variable phase-space volume element $h_I=\bigtriangleup x_i\bigtriangleup p_i$. Varying $h_I$ leads to variations in the amount of measured information of a…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Kevin Vanslette

Adequate uncertainty representation and quantification have become imperative in various scientific disciplines, especially in machine learning and artificial intelligence. As an alternative to representing uncertainty via one single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yusuf Sale , Michele Caprio , Eyke Hüllermeier

In existing deep learning methods, almost all loss functions assume that sample data values used to be predicted are the only correct ones. This assumption does not hold for laboratory test data. Test results are often within tolerable or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Mei Wang , Jianwen Su , Zhihua Lin

Even though the computation of local properties, such as densities or radial distribution functions, remains one of the most standard goals of molecular simulation, it still largely relies on straighforward histogram-based strategies. Here…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Benjamin Rotenberg

This work aims at identifying and quantifying uncertainties related to elastic and viscoelastic parameters, which characterize the arterial wall behavior, in one-dimensional modeling of the human arterial hemodynamics. The chosen uncertain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-12 Giulia Bertaglia , Valerio Caleffi , Lorenzo Pareschi , Alessandro Valiani

Purpose: Many planning methods for high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatment planning require an iterative approach. A set of computational parameters are hypothesized that will give a dose plan that meets dosimetric criteria. A dose…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Timmy Siauw , Adam Cunha , Alper Atamturk , I-Chow Hsu , Jean Pouliot , Ken Goldberg

Image-based precision medicine aims to personalize treatment decisions based on an individual's unique imaging features so as to improve their clinical outcome. Machine learning frameworks that integrate uncertainty estimation as part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Joshua Durso-Finley , Jean-Pierre Falet , Raghav Mehta , Douglas L. Arnold , Nick Pawlowski , Tal Arbel

Dose-Volume Histogram (DVH) prediction is fundamental in radiation therapy that facilitate treatment planning, dose evaluation, plan comparison and etc. It helps to increase the ability to deliver precise and effective radiation treatments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Zehao Dong , Yixin Chen , Tianyu Zhao

The paper presents many facets of medical imaging investigations radiological risks. The total volume of prescribed medical investigations proves a serious lack in monitoring and tracking of the cumulative radiation doses in many health…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 Lidia Dobrescu , Gheorghe-Cristian Rădulescu

Machine learning driven medical image segmentation has become standard in medical image analysis. However, deep learning models are prone to overconfident predictions. This has led to a renewed focus on calibrated predictions in the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Teodora Popordanoska , Jeroen Bertels , Dirk Vandermeulen , Frederik Maes , Matthew B. Blaschko

Propagating uncertainties introduced by chemical reaction rate parameters to high-fidelity numerical simulations of complex combustion devices is necessary to ascertain impact on computational predictions. However, the high cost of detailed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Vansh Sharma , Shuzhi Zhang , Rahul Jain , Venkat Raman

Estimating density ratios between pairs of intractable data distributions is a core problem in probabilistic modeling, enabling principled comparisons of sample likelihoods under different data-generating processes across conditions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Egor Antipov , Alessandro Palma , Lorenzo Consoli , Stephan Günnemann , Andrea Dittadi , Fabian J. Theis

Introduction: Intra-organ radiation dose sensitivity is becoming increasingly relevant in clinical radiotherapy. One method for assessment involves partitioning delineated regions of interest and comparing the relative contributions or…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-08 Haley D. Clark , Stefan A. Reinsberg , Vitali Moiseenko , Jonn Wu , Steven D. Thomas

Robust treatment planning algorithms for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) allow for uncertainty reduction in the delivered dose distributions through explicit inclusion of error…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Remo Cristoforetti , Jennifer Josephine Hardt , Niklas Wahl

Measuring uncertainties in the output of a deep learning method is useful in several ways, such as in assisting with interpretation of the outputs, helping build confidence with end users, and for improving the training and performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Luke Whitbread , Mark Jenkinson

Quantifying uncertainty in neural network predictions is essential for high-stakes domains such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and manufacturing. While existing approaches often depend on costly sampling or restrictive distributional…

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The response of a vibrating beam to a force depends on many physical parameters including those determined by material properties. Damage caused by fatigue or cracks result in local reductions in stiffness parameters and may drastically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Troy Butler , Antti Huhtala , Mika Juntunen

In this paper, we develop a metric designed to assess and rank uncertainty measures for the task of brain tumour sub-tissue segmentation in the BraTS 2019 sub-challenge on uncertainty quantification. The metric is designed to: (1) reward…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Raghav Mehta , Angelos Filos , Yarin Gal , Tal Arbel

In intensity-modulated radiation therapy, optimal intensity distributions of incoming beams are decomposed into linear combinations of leaf openings of a multileaf collimator (segments). In order to avoid inefficient dose delivery, the…

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