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Recent works in automated radiotherapy treatment planning have used machine learning based on historical treatment plans to infer the spatial dose distribution for a novel patient directly from the planning image. We present an atlas-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Chris McIntosh , Mattea Welch , Andrea McNiven , David A. Jaffray , Thomas G. Purdie

Astronomical data reduction is usually done with processing pipelines that consist of a series of individual processing steps that can be executed stand-alone. These processing steps are then strung together into workflows and fed with data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Wolfram Freudling , Stefano Zampieri , Lodovico Coccato , Stanislaw Podgorski , Martino Romaniello , Andrea Modigliani , John Pritchard

Purpose: Pencil beam scanning proton therapy is sensitive to respiratory motion, leading to potential dose inhomogeneities due to interplay effects. We developed and validated a predictive framework to assess interplay and motion robustness…

Advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) have propelled the field of computer vision, particularly in the zero-shot learning setting. Despite their promise, the effectiveness of these models often diminishes due to domain shifts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Elaine Sui , Xiaohan Wang , Serena Yeung-Levy

Aggregating large-scale radiotherapy planning and delivery data is crucial for advancing radiation oncology research and improving clinical practice, yet challenges persist due to the diversity of treatment planning systems (TPS), record…

Continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo refers to a class of algorithms designed to sample the thermal distribution of a quantum Hamiltonian through exact expansions of the Boltzmann exponential in terms of stochastic trajectories which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Jamie F. Mair , Juan P. Garrahan

Methods: We have developed a software suite (DataSet Tracker) for real-time analysis designed to run on computers, smartphones, and smart glasses hardware and suitable for resource-constrained, on-the-fly computing in microscopes without…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-13 Alexandre Matov

Planning safe trajectories for autonomous vehicles is essential for operational safety but remains extremely challenging due to the complex interactions among traffic participants. Recent autonomous driving frameworks have focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Niu , Kaizhao Zhang , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Problem-solving therapy (PST) is a structured psychological approach that helps individuals manage stress and resolve personal issues by guiding them through problem identification, solution brainstorming, decision-making, and outcome…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Elham Aghakhani , Lu Wang , Karla T. Washington , George Demiris , Jina Huh-Yoo , Rezvaneh Rezapour

Radiation treatment planning involves optimization over a large number of voxels, many of which carry limited information about the clinical problem. We propose an approach to reduce the large optimization problem by only using a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Sebastian Mair , Anqi Fu , Jens Sjölund

Proton pencil beam scanning (PBS) treatment planning for head & neck (H&N) cancers involves numerous conflicting objectives, requiring iterative objective parameter adjustments to balance multiple clinical goals. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qingqing Wang , Liqiang Xiao , Chang Chang

Radiotherapy is a crucial cancer treatment that demands precise planning to balance tumor eradication and preservation of healthy tissue. Traditional treatment planning (TP) is iterative, time-consuming, and reliant on human expertise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Matteo Ferrante , Alessandra Carosi , Rolando Maria D Angelillo , Nicola Toschi

Multivariate time series (MTS) data are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in diverse domains, e.g., IoT systems, health informatics, and 5G networks. To obtain an effective representation of MTS data, it is not only essential to consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yang Jiao , Kai Yang , Shaoyu Dou , Pan Luo , Sijia Liu , Dongjin Song

Automating the radiotherapy treatment planning process is a technically challenging problem. The majority of automated approaches have focused on customizing and inferring dose volume objectives to used in plan optimization. In this work we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Chris McIntosh , Thomas G. Purdie

Pancreas stereotactic body radiotherapy treatment planning requires planners to make sequential, time consuming interactions with the treatment planning system (TPS) to reach the optimal dose distribution. We seek to develop a reinforcement…

Background - Pulmonary insufficiency is a consequence of transannular patch repair in Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF), leading to late morbidity and mortality. Transcatheter native outflow tract pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) has become…

Objective: This study aims to uncover the opaque decision-making process of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for automatic treatment planning. Approach: We examined a previously developed AI agent based on the Actor-Critic with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Md Mainul Abrar , Xun Jia , Yujie Chi

In recent years, the use of PACS for radiation therapy has become the norm in hospital environment and has suggested for collecting data and management from different TPSs with DICOM objects. However, some TPS does not provide the DVH…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Byung Jun Min , Heerim Nam , Il Sun Jeong , Hyebin Lee

Patient flow analysis can be studied from a clinical and or operational perspective using simulation. Traditional statistical methods such as stochastic distribution methods have been used to construct patient flow simulation submodels such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Tesfamariam M. Abuhay , Adane Mamuye , Stewart Robinson , Sergey V. Kovalchuk

We show that the standard computational pipeline of probabilistic programming systems (PPSs) can be inefficient for estimating expectations and introduce the concept of expectation programming to address this. In expectation programming,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tim Reichelt , Adam Goliński , Luke Ong , Tom Rainforth