English
Related papers

Related papers: Improving Proton Dose Calculation Accuracy by Usin…

200 papers

Determining the optimal initial dose for warfarin is a critically important task. Several factors have an impact on the therapeutic dose for individual patients, such as patients' physical attributes (Age, Height, etc.), medication profile,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Ashkan Sharabiani , Adam Bress , William Galanter , Rezvan Nazempour , Houshang Darabi

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

Data augmentation refers to a group of techniques whose goal is to battle limited amount of available data to improve model generalization and push sample distribution toward the true distribution. While different augmentation strategies…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-03 Ruqian Hao , Khashayar Namdar , Lin Liu , Masoom A. Haider , Farzad Khalvati

Probabilistic power flow (PPF) plays a critical role in power system analysis. However, the high computational burden makes it challenging for the practical implementation of PPF. This paper proposes a model-based deep learning approach to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Yan Yang , Zhifang Yang , Juan Yu , Baosen Zhang

The diagnosis of prostate cancer faces a problem with overdiagnosis that leads to damaging side effects due to unnecessary treatment. Research has shown that the use of multi-parametric magnetic resonance images to conduct biopsies can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Pedro C. Neto

Biophysical modeling, particularly involving partial differential equations (PDEs), offers significant potential for tailoring disease treatment protocols to individual patients. However, the inverse problem-solving aspect of these models…

Informed selection of drug candidates for laboratory experimentation provides an efficient means of identifying suitable anti-cancer treatments. The advancement of artificial intelligence has led to the development of computational models…

Clinical trials are a systematic endeavor to assess the safety and efficacy of new drugs or treatments. Conducting such trials typically demands significant financial investment and meticulous planning, highlighting the need for accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Tien Huu Do , Antoine Masquelier , Nae Eoun Lee , Jonathan Crowther

Molecular and genomic properties are critical in selecting cancer treatments to target individual tumors, particularly for immunotherapy. However, the methods to assess such properties are expensive, time-consuming, and often not routinely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Heather D. Couture

Prognostic task is of great importance as it closely related to the survival analysis of patients, the optimization of treatment plans and the allocation of resources. The existing prognostic models have shown promising results on specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Binyu Zhang , Shichao Li , Junpeng Jian , Zhu Meng , Limei Guo , Zhicheng Zhao

The claim that Monte Carlo is the most accurate method is a case of misattributed credit. This claim is based on experience with advanced systems MCNPX, Geant4 and EGS. These systems achieve remarkable performance because they use most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Oleg N Vassiliev , Radhe Mohan

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Linjie Fu , Xia Li , Xiuding Cai , Yingkai Wang , Xueyao Wang , Yali Shen , Yu Yao

Radiation therapy is the primary method used to treat cancer in the clinic. Its goal is to deliver a precise dose to the planning target volume (PTV) while protecting the surrounding organs at risk (OARs). However, the traditional workflow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Tara Gheshlaghi , Shahabedin Nabavi , Samire Shirzadikia , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Nima Rostampour

Recent applications of deep convolutional neural networks in medical imaging raise concerns about their interpretability. While most explainable deep learning applications use post hoc methods (such as GradCAM) to generate feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yuanyuan Wei , Roger Tam , Xiaoying Tang

PURPOSE: Permanent breast seed implant (PBSI) using 103Pd is emerging as an effective adjuvant radiation technique for early-stage breast cancer. However, clinical dose evaluations follow the water-based TG-43 approach with its considerable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Stephen G. Deering , Michelle Hilts , Deidre Batchelar , Juanita Crook , Rowan M. Thomson

The cluster dose concept offers an alternative to the radiobiological effectiveness (RBE)-based model for describing radiation-induced biological effects. This study examines the application of a neural network to predict cluster dose…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Miriam Schwarze , Hui Khee Looe , Björn Poppe , Leo Thomas , Hans Rabus

Cancer drug response prediction (DRP) models present a promising approach towards precision oncology, tailoring treatments to individual patient profiles. While deep learning (DL) methods have shown great potential in this area, models that…

The ability to direct a Probabilistic Boolean Network (PBN) to a desired state is important to applications such as targeted therapeutics in cancer biology. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been proposed as a framework that solves a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sotiris Moschoyiannis , Evangelos Chatzaroulas , Vytenis Sliogeris , Yuhu Wu

Introduction: The present study on the development and evaluation of an automated brain tumor segmentation technique based on deep learning using the 3D U-Net model. Objectives: The objective is to leverage state-of-the-art convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Suman Sourabh , Murugappan Valliappan , Narayana Darapaneni , Anwesh R P

In recent years, deep learning has shown great promise in the automated detection and classification of brain tumors from MRI images. However, achieving high accuracy and computational efficiency remains a challenge. In this research, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Daniel Onah , Ravish Desai