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Purpose: Various dose calculation algorithms are available for radiation therapy for cancer patients. However, these algorithms are faced with the tradeoff between efficiency and accuracy. The fast algorithms are generally less accurate,…

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Dual-energy X-ray tomography is considered in a context where the target under imaging consists of two distinct materials. The materials are assumed to be possibly intertwined in space, but at any given location there is only one material…

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This work presents a new mathematical model to depict the effect of obesity on cancerous tumor growth when chemotherapy as well as immunotherapy have been administered. We consider an optimal control problem to destroy the tumor population…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Tuğba Akman Yıldız , Sadia Arshad , Dumitru Baleanu

Interfractional geometric uncertainties can lead to deviations of the actual delivered dose from the prescribed dose distribution. To better handle these uncertainties during treatment, the authors propose a dynamic framework for robust…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Michelle Böck , Kjell Eriksson , Anders Forsgren

In the field of non-invasive medical imaging, radiomic features are utilized to measure tumor characteristics. However, these features can be affected by the techniques used to discretize the images, ultimately impacting the accuracy of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Wenhao Chi , Haiping Liu , Hongqiao Dong , Wenhua Liang , Bo Liu

A split feasibility formulation for the inverse problem of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning with dose-volume constraints (DVCs) included in the planning algorithm is presented. It involves a new type of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Penfold , R. Zalas , M. Casiraghi , M. Brooke , Y. Censor , R. Schulte

Radiotherapy treatment planning often relies on time-consuming, trial-and-error adjustments that heavily depend on the expertise of specialists, while existing deep learning methods face limitations in generalization, prediction accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hui Xie , Haiqin Hu , Lijuan Ding , Qing Li , Yue Sun , Tao Tan

Proton therapy is nowadays becoming a wide spread clinical practice in cancer therapy and sophisticated treatment planning systems are routinely used to exploit at best the ballistic properties of charged particles. The information on the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Braccini , A. Ereditato , I. Kreslo , U. Moser , C. Pistillo , P. Scampoli , S. Studer

Cancer is one of the most common diseases worldwide, posing a serious threat to human health and leading to the deaths of a large number of people. It was observed during the drug administration in chemotherapy that immune cells, cancer…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-20 SeyedMehdi Abtahi , Mojtaba Sharifi

Diffuse low grade gliomas are slowly growing tumors that always recur after treatment. In this paper, we revisit the modeling of the tumor radius evolution before and after the radiotherapy process and propose a novel model that is simple,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Leo Adenis , Stephane Plaszczynski , Basile Grammaticos , Johan Pallud , Mathilde Badoual

Radiation Therapy (XRT) is one of the most common cancer treatment methods. In this paper, a new mathematical model is proposed for the population dynamics of heterogeneous tumor cells following external beam radiation treatment. According…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-23 Amin Oroji , Shantia Yarahmadian , Sarkhosh Seddighi , Mohd Omar

Co-optimizing mRNA sequences for both codon optimality and secondary structure is crucial for producing stable and efficacious mRNA therapeutics. Codon optimization, which adjusts nucleotide sequences to enhance translational efficiency,…

Radiotherapy (RT) is a key component in the treatment of various cancers, including Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML). Precise delineation of organs at risk (OARs) and target areas is essential for…

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Mutational signatures are patterns of somatic mutations in tumor genomes that provide insights into underlying mutagenic processes and cancer origin. Developing reliable methods for their estimation is of growing importance in cancer…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-04 Blake Hansen , Isabella N. Grabski , Giovanni Parmigiani , Roberta De Vito

Brain Tumor Segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical technique for early diagnosis. However, rather than having complete four modalities as in BraTS dataset, it is common to have missing modalities in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yan Shen , Mingchen Gao

Radiation therapy aims to deliver the prescribed amount of dose to a tumour at the same time as sparing the surrounding tissues as much as possible. In charged particle therapy, delivering the prescribed dose is equivalent to delivering the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Simona Giordanengo , Marco Donetti

Recent innovations in x-ray technology (namely phase-based and energy-resolved imaging) offer unprecedented opportunities for material discrimination, however they are often used in isolation or in limited combinations. Here we show that…

Dealing with missing modalities in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and overcoming their negative repercussions is considered a hurdle in biomedical imaging. The combination of a specified set of modalities, which is selected depending on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Reza Azad , Nika Khosravi , Mohammad Dehghanmanshadi , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof

Tumor segmentation in multimodal medical images has seen a growing trend towards deep learning based methods. Typically, studies dealing with this topic fuse multimodal image data to improve the tumor segmentation contour for a single…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Theresa Neubauer , Maria Wimmer , Astrid Berg , David Major , Dimitrios Lenis , Thomas Beyer , Jelena Saponjski , Katja Bühler

Radiation damage induced by ion beams is traditionally treated at different levels of theoretical approaches, for the different scales and mechanisms involved.We present here details of a combined approach that, from a method at a…