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Machine learning algorithms have made remarkable achievements in the field of artificial intelligence. However, most machine learning algorithms are sensitive to the hyper-parameters. Manually optimizing the hyper-parameters is a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Bozhou Chen , Kaixin Zhang , Longshen Ou , Chenmin Ba , Hongzhi Wang , Chunnan Wang

We present a novel application of Tensor Network methods in cancer treatment as a potential tool to solve the dose optimization problem in radiotherapy. In particular, the Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) technique - that allows…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Samuele Cavinato , Timo Felser , Marco Fusella , Marta Paiusco , Simone Montangero

This paper proposes a novel framework for humanoid robots to execute inspection tasks with high efficiency and millimeter-level precision. The approach combines hierarchical planning, time-optimal standing position generation, and…

PET/CT imaging is the gold standard for tumor detection, offering high accuracy in identifying local and metastatic lesions. Radiologists often begin assessment with rotational Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections (MIPs) from PET,…

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Radiation Treatment Planning (RTP) is the process of planning the appropriate external beam radiotherapy to combat cancer in human patients. RTP is a complex and compute-intensive task, which often takes a long time (several hours) to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Felix Liu , Niclas Jansson , Artur Podobas , Albin Fredriksson , Stefano Markidis

Radiotherapy planning naturally leads to a multi-criteria optimization problem which is subject to different sources of uncertainty. In order to find the desired treatment plan, a decision maker must balance these objectives as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jan Schröeder , Yair Censor , Philipp Süss , Karl-Heinz Küfer

Recent progress in randomized motion planners has led to the development of a new class of sampling-based algorithms that provide asymptotic optimality guarantees, notably the RRT* and the PRM* algorithms. Careful analysis reveals that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Oktay Arslan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Fast and efficient sampling-based motion planning (SMP) is an integral component of many robotic systems, such as autonomous cars. A popular technique to improve the efficiency of these planners is to restrict search space in the planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jacob J. Johnson , Uday S. Kalra , Ankit Bhatia , Linjun Li , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

We design two classes of ultra-fast meta-solvers for linear systems arising after discretizing PDEs by combining neural operators with either simple iterative solvers, e.g., Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel, or with Krylov methods, e.g., GMRES and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Youngkyu Lee , Shanqing Liu , Jerome Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

Multi-robot task planning requires decomposing natural-language instructions into executable actions for heterogeneous robot teams. Conventional Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) planners provide rigorous guarantees but struggle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tomoya Kawabe , Rin Takano

We give a simple, fast algorithm for hyperparameter optimization inspired by techniques from the analysis of Boolean functions. We focus on the high-dimensional regime where the canonical example is training a neural network with a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Elad Hazan , Adam Klivans , Yang Yuan

Purpose: We present a framework for robust automated treatment planning using machine learning, comprising scenario-specific dose prediction and robust dose mimicking. Methods: The scenario dose prediction pipeline is divided into the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Oskar Eriksson , Tianfang Zhang

3D computer-assisted corrective osteotomy has become the state-of-the-art for surgical treatment of complex bone deformities. Despite available technologies, the automatic generation of clinically acceptable, ready-to-use preoperative…

Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of fast Monte Carlo (MC) based inverse biological planning for the treatment of head and neck tumors in spot-scanning proton therapy. Methods: Recently, a fast and accurate Graphics Processor Unit…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 H. Wan Chan Tseung , J. Ma , C. R. Kreofsky , D. Ma , C. Beltran

Traditional data processing pipelines are typically static and handcrafted for specific tasks, limiting their adaptability to evolving requirements. While general-purpose agents and coding assistants can generate code for well-understood…

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Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) can lift the burden of tuning hyperparameters (HPs) of neural networks. HPO algorithms from the Population Based Training (PBT) family are efficient thanks to dynamically adjusting HPs every few steps of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Alexander Chebykin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Background: Dose calculation and optimization algorithms in proton therapy treatment planning often have high computational requirements regarding time and memory. This can hinder the implementation of efficient workflows in clinics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 D. Pross , S. Wuyckens , S. Deffet , E. Sterpin , J. A. Lee , K. Souris

Traditional multi-robot motion planning (MMP) focuses on computing trajectories for multiple robots acting in an environment, such that the robots do not collide when the trajectories are taken simultaneously. In safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Justin Kottinger , Shaull Almagor , Morteza Lahijanian

As deep neural networks include a high number of parameters and operations, it can be a challenge to implement these models on devices with limited computational resources. Despite the development of novel pruning methods toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Morteza Homayounfar , Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam , Reza Rawassizadeh , Varut Vardhanabhuti

Modern data analytical workloads often need to run queries over a large number of tables. An optimal query plan for such queries is crucial for being able to run these queries within acceptable time bounds. However, with queries involving…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Riccardo Mancini , Srinivas Karthik , Bikash Chandra , Vasilis Mageirakos , Anastasia Ailamaki