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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Automated Treatment Planning"”.
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Automated Treatment Planning in High Dose-Rate Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer
… into the tumorous area to ablate the cancer. Treatment planning for the procedure is typically performed on the day of treatment. The complex treatment planning process has led to issues such as prolonged treatment planning time and suboptimal plan quality. This dissertation reports systematic …
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Learning to Solve Optimization Problems with Hidden Components: Applications in Automated Treatment Planning
… the design of personalized radiation therapy treatments for head-and-neck cancer patients. Here, the prevailing framework is Knowledge-based planning (KBP), which is a two-stage pipeline that involves generating an expected dose and optimizing a treatment to deliver the generated dose. We …
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Development of Automated Radiotherapy Treatment Planning For Cervical and Breast Cancer For Resource-Constrained Clinics
… be mitigated by the automation of the radiation treatment planning process. To this end, we developed automated planning for cervical and postmastectomy breast cancer radiotherapy, the two most common types of cancer in women in many LMICs.</p> <p>For radiotherapy of cervical cancer in …
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Equipment to Address Infrastructure and Human Resource Challenges For Radiotherapy In Low-Resource Settings
… radiotherapy chair (to facilitate low-cost treatment devices) and a fully automated treatment planning strategy.</p> <p>A fixed-beam patient treatment device would allow for reduced upfront and ongoing cost of teletherapy machines. The enabling technology for such a device is the …
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The Safe and Effective Clinical Deployment of Artificial Intelligence to ols
… of radiation therapy as the complexity of treatment techniques increase, with only 37% of patients in these regions having access to the care they need. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools are being developed to simplify the treatment planning and quality assurance processes to …
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Automated Radiotherapy Treatment Planning for Breast Cancer: A Robust to ol for Global Deployment
… worldwide threatens the prompt delivery of these treatments.This thesis proposes an automated solution to address the limited accessibility of radiotherapy planning in breast cancer management by developing an end-to-end automated treatment planning model and evaluating its performance and …
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Automating The Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Process For Pediatric Patients With Medulloblastoma
… and technology necessary to deliver complex treatments.</p> <p>The long-term goal of this study was to alleviate demanding workflows and increase global access to high-quality pediatric radiation therapy by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to automate the radiation therapy …
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Automation of Radiation Treatment Planning For Cervical Cancer
… The mortality rate can be reduced if radiation treatment becomes widely available. However, due to the lack of radiation treatment facilities and human resources, many cervical cancer patients in Africa are not able to receive timely treatments or advanced therapies. To increase the availability …
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Evaluation of an End-to-End Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Pipeline for Prostate Cancer
<p>Radiation treatment planning is a crucial and time-intensive process in radiation therapy. This planning involves carefully designing a treatment regimen tailored to a patient’s specific condition, including the type, location, and size of the tumor with reference to surrounding healthy tissues. …