A feasibility study of treatment verification using EPID cine images for hypofractionated lung radiotherapy

Details A feasibility study of treatment verification using EPID cine images for hypofractionated lung radiotherapy A feasibility study of treatment verification using EPID cine images for hypofractionated lung radiotherapy

2009-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4912v1

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Medical Physics

Accepted by Physics in Medicine and Biology

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We propose a novel approach for potential on-line treatment verification using cine EPID (Electronic Portal Imaging Device) images for hypofractionated lung radiotherapy based on a machine learning algorithm. Hypofractionated radiotherapy requires high precision. It is essential to effectively monitor the target to ensure that the tumor is within the beam aperture. We modeled the treatment verification problem as a two-class classification problem and applied an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to classify the cine EPID images acquired during the treatment into corresponding classes with the tumor inside or outside of the beam aperture. Training samples were generated for the ANN using digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs) with artificially added shifts in tumor location to simulate cine EPID images with different tumor locations. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to reduce the dimensionality of the training samples and cine EPID images acquired during the treatment. The proposed treatment verification algorithm was tested on five hypofractionated lung patients in a retrospective fashion. On average, our proposed algorithm achieved a 98.0% classification accuracy, a 97.6% recall rate, and a 99.7% precision rate.

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