English
Related papers

Related papers: Surrogate-free machine learning-based organ dose r…

200 papers

This study investigates the applicability of 3D dose predictions from a model trained on one modality to a cross-modality automated planning workflow. Additionally, we explore the impact of integrating a multi-criteria optimizer on adapting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Gregory Szalkowski , Xuanang Xu , Shiva Das , Pew-Thian Yap , Jun Lian

Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (3DTEE) is the recommended imaging technique for the assessment of mitral valve (MV) morphology and lesions in case of mitral regurgitation (MR) requiring surgical or transcatheter repair.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Riccardo Munafò , Simone Saitta , Giacomo Ingallina , Paolo Denti , Francesco Maisano , Eustachio Agricola , Alberto Redaelli , Emiliano Votta

Ultra sparse-view computed tomography (CT) algorithms can reduce radiation exposure of patients, but those algorithms lack an explicit cycle consistency loss minimization and an explicit log-likelihood maximization in testing. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Hisaichi Shibata , Shouhei Hanaoka , Yukihiro Nomura , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Naoto Hayashi , Osamu Abe

Deep learning has facilitated the automation of radiotherapy by predicting accurate dose distribution maps. However, existing methods fail to derive the desirable radiotherapy parameters that can be directly input into the treatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jiaqi Cui , Yuanyuan Xu , Jianghong Xiao , Yuchen Fei , Jiliu Zhou , Xingcheng Peng , Yan Wang

To develop an automated workflow for rectal cancer three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy treatment planning that combines deep-learning(DL) aperture predictions and forward-planning algorithms. We designed an algorithm to automate the…

We propose a novel unsupervised deep-learning-based algorithm for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction. Dynamic MRI requires rapid data acquisition for the study of moving organs such as the heart. Existing reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Jaejun Yoo , Kyong Hwan Jin , Harshit Gupta , Jerome Yerly , Matthias Stuber , Michael Unser

Magnetic resonance imaging is capable of producing volumetric images without ionizing radiation. Nonetheless, long acquisitions lead to prohibitively long exams. Compressed sensing (CS) can enable faster scanning via sub-sampling with…

Surgical planning and training based on machine learning requires a large amount of 3D anatomical models reconstructed from medical imaging, which is currently one of the major bottlenecks. Obtaining these data from real patients and during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ann-Sophia Müller , Moonkwang Jeong , Meng Zhang , Jiyuan Tian , Arkadiusz Miernik , Stefanie Speidel , Tian Qiu

Conventional radiotherapy dose calculation algorithms are often computationally slow and non-differentiable, creating bottlenecks for online adaptive radiotherapy (ART) and limiting end-to-end automatic planning. Deep learning provides…

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

CT reconstruction provides radiologists with images for diagnosis and treatment, yet current deep learning methods are typically limited to specific anatomies and datasets, hindering generalization ability to unseen anatomies and lesions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Shaokai Wu , Yapan Guo , Yanbiao Ji , Jing Tong , Yuxiang Lu , Mei Li , Suizhi Huang , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu

Radiotherapy (RT) is a critical cancer treatment, with volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) being a commonly used technique that enhances dose conformity by dynamically adjusting multileaf collimator (MLC) positions and monitor units…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Stefanos Achlatis , Efstratios Gavves , Jan-Jakob Sonke

Low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging attracted a considerable interest for the reduction of the object's exposure to X-ray radiation. In recent years, supervised deep learning (DL) has been extensively studied for LDCT image reconstruction, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qiaoqiao Ding , Hui Ji , Yuhui Quan , Xiaoqun Zhang

Background: Accurate and fast dose calculation is essential for optimizing carbon ion therapy. Existing machine learning (ML) models have been developed for other radiotherapy modalities. They use patient data with uniform CT imaging…

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

Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction is one of the most promising ways to compensate for the increased noise due to reduction of photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Zhuonan He , Yikun Zhang , Yu Guan , Shanzhou Niu , Yi Zhang , Yang Chen , Qiegen Liu

Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) utilizes coplanar synchrotron radiation beamlets and is a proposed treatment approach for several tumour diagnoses that currently have poor clinical treatment outcomes, such as gliosarcomas. Prescription…

Medical imaging is playing a more and more important role in clinics. However, there are several issues in different imaging modalities such as slow imaging speed in MRI, radiation injury in CT and PET. Therefore, accelerating MRI, reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jing Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Yanjie Zhu , Qiegen Liu , Qiyang Zhang , Ting Su , Jianwei Chen , Yongshuai Ge , Zhanli Hu , Xin Liu , Hairong Zheng , Leslie Ying , Dong Liang

Purpose. To alleviate the manual contouring burden, deep learning (DL) based automated contouring has been explored. However, due to the poor contrast resolution of preclinical irradiator CBCT, these methods have been limited to high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Ethan Cramer , Sophie Dobiasch , Xinmin Liu , Stephanie E. Combs , Rodney D. Wiersma

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) aims to minimize the radiation exposure to patients while maintaining diagnostic image quality. However, traditional CT reconstruction algorithms often struggle with the ill-posed nature of the problem,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Daisy Chen