Winter is over: The use of Artificial Intelligence to individualise radiation therapy for breast cancer

Autor: Silvia Takanen, Gustavo Nader Marta, Icro Meattini, Orit Kaidar-Person, Philip Poortmans
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Breast, Vol 49, Iss, Pp 194-200 (2020)
The Breast : official journal of the European Society of Mastology
ISSN: 0960-9776
Popis: Artificial intelligence demonstrated its value for automated contouring of organs at risk and target volumes as well as for auto-planning of radiation dose distributions in terms of saving time, increasing consistency, and improving dose-volumes parameters. Future developments include incorporating dose/outcome data to optimise dose distributions with optimal coverage of the high-risk areas, while at the same time limiting doses to low-risk areas. An infinite gradient of volumes and doses to deliver spatially-adjusted radiation can be generated, allowing to avoid unnecessary radiation to organs at risk. Therefore, data about patient-, tumour-, and treatment-related factors have to be combined with dose distributions and outcome-containing databases.
Highlights • Artificial intelligence is used in target delineation and treatment planning. • Benefits are expected from individualising dose based on recurrence patterns. • Collaboration between different expertises is essential to generate models.
Databáze: OpenAIRE