Author : Nilesh L. Jain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (329 download)
Book Synopsis Clinical Decision-support Systems in Radiation Therapy by : Nilesh L. Jain
Download or read book Clinical Decision-support Systems in Radiation Therapy written by Nilesh L. Jain and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "Computers have been used in radiation therapy since the early 1960s to perform dose calculations. In the last decade, researchers have developed computer-based clinical decision-support systems for assiting in different decision-making tasks in radiation therapy. This paper reviews eleven prototype systems developed for target volume delineation, treatment planning, treatment plan evaluation, and treatment machine diagnosis. The advent of three-dimensional (3D) conformal radiation therapy (CRT) provides radiation oncologist with the opportunity to consider innovative beam arrangements which were not possible in two- dimensional class solutions. The difficulty of manually generating the thousands of clinically plausible 3D treatment plans calls for the use of decision-support systems to generate them automatically. The large data sets generated in 3D CRT make manual treatment plan evaluation difficult, and call for the use of decision-support systems for objective radiation treatment plan evaluation. Computer-based optimization of 3D CRT can then be performed by combining the systems for automatic plan generation and objective plan evaluation."