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Dose-Volume Histogram (DVH) prediction is fundamental in radiation therapy that facilitate treatment planning, dose evaluation, plan comparison and etc. It helps to increase the ability to deliver precise and effective radiation treatments…

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Longitudinal Dispersion(LD) is the dominant process of scalar transport in natural streams. An accurate prediction on LD coefficient(Dl) can produce a performance leap in related simulation. The emerging machine learning(ML) techniques…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Yifeng Zhao , Pei Zhang , S. A. Galindo-Torres , Stan Z. Li

We propose to develop deep learning models that can predict Pareto optimal dose distributions by using any given set of beam angles, along with patient anatomy, as input to train the deep neural networks. We implement and compare two deep…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gyanendra Bohara , Azar Sadeghnejad Barkousaraie , Steve Jiang , Dan Nguyen

Reliable operation of high-power proton cyclotrons is a critical requirement for Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) and other large-scale applications. Beam tuning in such machines is traditionally performed manually, a process that can be…

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

We propose a novel method, basis vector model material indexing (BVM-MI), for predicting atomic composition and mass density from two independent basis vector model weights derived from dual-energy CT (DECT) for Monte Carlo (MC) dose…

Tasking machine learning to predict segments of a time series requires estimating the parameters of a ML model with input/output pairs from the time series. Using the equivalence between statistical data assimilation and supervised machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Alexander J. A. Ty , Zheng Fang , Rivver A. Gonzalez , Paul J. Rozdeba , Henry D. I. Abarbanel

Context: The analysis of the thermal part of velocity distribution functions (VDF) is fundamentally important for understanding the kinetic physics that governs the evolution and dynamics of space plasmas. However, calculating the proton…

Early detection of malignant skin lesions is critical for improving patient outcomes in aggressive, metastatic skin cancers. This study evaluates a comprehensive system for preliminary skin lesion assessment that combines the clinically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Ali Khreis , Ro'Yah Radaideh , Quinn McGill

Parallel batch processing machines have extensive applications in the semiconductor manufacturing process. However, the problem models in previous studies regard parallel batch processing as a fixed processing stage in the machining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Feige Liu , Xin Li , Chao Lu , Wenying Gong

Machine learning (ML) has become a versatile tool for analyzing anomalous diffusion trajectories, yet most existing pipelines are trained on large collections of simulated data. In contrast, experimental trajectories, such as those from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Gongyi Wang , Yu Zhang , Zihan Huang

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently been introduced as a regularizing prior for PET image reconstruction, integrating DMs trained on high-quality PET images with unsupervised schemes that condition on measured data. While these approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 George Webber , Alexander Hammers , Andrew P King , Andrew J Reader

In this paper, we derive a novel and comprehensive thermodynamically consistent model for the complex interactions between superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs), a carrier fluid, and a magnetic field, as they occur in Magnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Eberhard Bänsch , Jonas Knoch , Nicolas Neuss , Maria Neuss-Radu

To ensure agreement between theoretical calculations and experimental data, parameters to selected nuclear physics models, are perturbed, and fine-tuned in nuclear data evaluations. This approach assumes that the chosen set of models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 E. Alhassan , D. Rochman , G. Schnabel , A. J. Koning

Quantum mechanics based ab-initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulation schemes offer an accurate and direct means to monitor the time-evolution of materials. Nevertheless, the expensive and repetitive energy and force computations required in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-14 Venkatesh Botu , Rampi Ramprasad

Dose volume histogram (DVH) metrics are widely accepted evaluation criteria in the clinic. However, incorporating these metrics into deep learning dose prediction models is challenging due to their non-convexity and non-differentiability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Gourav Jhanwar , Navdeep Dahiya , Parmida Ghahremani , Masoud Zarepisheh , Saad Nadeem

Purpose: This study aimed to use deep learning-based dose prediction to assess head and neck (HN) plan quality and identify suboptimal plans. Methods: A total of 245 VMAT HN plans were created using RapidPlan knowledge-based planning (KBP).…

Methods: A phase space file in a plane at 202 mm downstream of the beam exit window is generated through tuning parameters to match FDC results with measured or MCNPX Monte Carlo-simulated integrated depth-dose distribution (IDD) and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Qianxia Wang , Uwe Titt , Radhe Mohan , Fada Guan , Yao Zhao , Ming Yang , Pablo Yepes

Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is characterized by delivering a high amount of dose in a short period of time. In SBRT the dose is delivered using open fields (e.g., beam's-eye-view) known as "apertures". Mathematical methods can be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Hamed Yarmand , David Craft

Methods for estimating heterogeneous treatment effect in observational data have largely focused on continuous or binary outcomes, and have been relatively less vetted with survival outcomes. Using flexible machine learning methods in the…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-09 Liangyuan Hu , Jiayi Ji , Fan Li