English
Related papers

Related papers: Automating RT Planning at Scale: High Quality Data…

200 papers

Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant attention in healthcare consultation due to its potential to improve clinical workflow and enhance medical communication. However, owing to the complex nature of medical information, large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xiaolan Chen , Ziwei Zhao , Weiyi Zhang , Pusheng Xu , Le Gao , Mingpu Xu , Yue Wu , Yinwen Li , Danli Shi , Mingguang He

In this work, we developed and evaluated a novel pipeline consisting of two landmark-based field aperture generation approaches for WBRT treatment planning; they are fully automated and customizable. The automation pipeline is beneficial…

The aim is to evaluate whether smart worklist prioritization by artificial intelligence (AI) can optimize the radiology workflow and reduce report turnaround times (RTAT) for critical findings in chest radiographs (CXRs). Furthermore, we…

Despite recent success in applying large language models (LLMs) to electronic health records (EHR), most systems focus primarily on assessment rather than treatment planning. We identify three critical limitations in current approaches:…

Radiation therapy treatment planning can be viewed as an iterative hyperparameter tuning process to balance conflicting clinical goals. In this work, we investigated the performance of modern Bayesian Optimization (BO) methods on automated…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Qingying Wang , Ruoxi Wang , Jiacheng Liu , Fan Jiang , Haizhen Yue , Yi Du , Hao Wu

Effective patient queue management to minimize patient wait delays and patient overcrowding is one of the major challenges faced by hospitals. Unnecessary and annoying waits for long periods result in substantial human resource and time…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jianguo Chen , Kenli Li , Zhuo Tang , Kashif Bilal , Keqin Li

The challenge of removing cancerous cells lies in the limitation of organ at risk, which restricts the ability to increase the radiation dose adequately for enhancing treatment effectiveness. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Amir Moslemi , Navid Khaledi

Whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) is a common treatment due to its simplicity and effectiveness. While automated Field-in-Field (Auto-FiF) functions assist WBRT planning in modern treatment planning systems, it still requires manual…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Adnan Jafar , An Qin , Gavin Atkins , Xiaoyu Hu , Yin Gao , Xun Jia

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…

Traditionally, optimization of radiation therapy (RT) treatment plans has been done before the initiation of RT course, using population-wide estimates for patients' response to therapy. However, recent technological advancements have…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 Stefan C. M. ten Eikelder , Ali Ajdari , Thomas Bortfeld , Dick den Hertog

Delineation of tumors and organs-at-risk permits detecting and correcting changes in the patients' anatomy throughout the treatment, making it a core step of adaptive proton therapy (APT). Although AI-based auto-contouring technologies have…

Radiologists face increasing workload pressures amid growing imaging volumes, creating risks of burnout and delayed reporting times. While artificial intelligence (AI) based automated radiology report generation shows promise for reporting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Julián N. Acosta , Siddhant Dogra , Subathra Adithan , Kay Wu , Michael Moritz , Stephen Kwak , Pranav Rajpurkar

To improve the prognosis of patients suffering from pulmonary diseases, such as lung cancer, early diagnosis and treatment are crucial. The analysis of CT images is invaluable for diagnosis, whereas high quality segmentation of the airway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Karen-Helene Støverud , David Bouget , Andre Pedersen , Håkon Olav Leira , Thomas Langø , Erlend Fagertun Hofstad

Increasing demands on medical imaging departments are taking a toll on the radiologist's ability to deliver timely and accurate reports. Recent technological advances in artificial intelligence have demonstrated great potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Phillip Sloan , Philip Clatworthy , Edwin Simpson , Majid Mirmehdi

High dose-rate brachytherapy (HDRBT) is widely used for gynecological cancer treatment. Although commercial treatment planning systems (TPSs) have inverse optimization modules, it takes several iterations to adjust planning objectives to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Huan Liu , Chang M Ma , Xun Jia , Chenyang Shen , Peter Klages , Kevin Albuquerque

High-dose-rate brachytherapy is a tumor treatment method where a highly radioactive source is brought in close proximity to the tumor. In this paper we develop a simulated annealing algorithm to optimize the dwell times at preselected dwell…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Timo M. Deist , Bram L. Gorissen

Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Apoorva Vashisth , Manav Kulshrestha , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines are central to applying large language models (LLMs) to proprietary or dynamic data. However, building effective RAG flows is complex, requiring careful selection among vector databases,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alexander Conway , Debadeepta Dey , Stefan Hackmann , Matthew Hausknecht , Michael Schmidt , Mark Steadman , Nick Volynets

Radiotherapy aims to deliver a prescribed dose to the tumor while sparing neighboring organs at risk (OARs). Increasingly complex treatment techniques such as volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS),…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Elahheh Salari , Jing Wang , Jacob Wynne , Chih-Wei Chang , Xiaofeng Yang

Pruning is a promising approach to compress deep learning models in order to deploy them on resource-constrained edge devices. However, many existing pruning solutions are based on unstructured pruning, which yields models that cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaiqi Zhao , Animesh Jain , Ming Zhao