Authors: Nina Burbure, Tawfik Giaddui, Shidong Li, Curtis Miyamoto, Jeremy Price, Bin Wang
Affiliation: FCCC at Temple University Hospital, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center at Temple University Hospital
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Higher rates of local failures and toxicities challenged radiation therapy of centrally located lung cancer (CLLC). We assessed the treatment response by measuring the early changes of PET+ n...
Authors: Anthony Hong Cheol Lim, Alexander R ODell, Alexander Stanforth, Chris C. Wang
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: The purpose of this work is to investigate the variation of proton RBE, with respect to depth, in the context of clinical SOBP. Employing a novel approach, this study conducts a Monte Carlo s...
Authors: Xiaolong Fu, Runping Hou, Md Tauhidul Islam, Lei Xing
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To introduce a novel schematic image representation of radiomics data, called OmicsMap, for high-performance deep radiomics analysis. OmicsMap transforms tabular radiomics data into an image ...
Authors: Beth Bradshaw Ghavidel, Benyamin Khajetash, Yang Lei, Meysam Tavakoli
Affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Emory University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Pancreatic cancer is among the most aggressive types of cancer, with a five-year survival rate of approximately 10%. Recent studies show that radiomics and deep learning (DL)-based methods ar...
Authors: Mark E Artz, Jiyeon Park, Lori Rice, Mohammad Saki, Sanjeev Shukla, Michael Vieceli
Affiliation: University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, UF Health Proton Therapy Institute, Department of Urology, University of Florida College of Medicine
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To investigate how varying levels of DNA repair mutations affect the LET sensitivity of prostate cancer cells.
Methods: The prostate cancer cell lines Du145 (low DNA repair mutations), PC3...
Authors: Zakaria Aboulbanine, Greeshma A. Agasthya, Paul Inman, Anuj J. Kapadia, Anthony Hong Cheol Lim, Jayasai Ram Rajagopal, Chris C. Wang
Affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Radiobiological simulation via TOPAS-nBio requires significant computational resources and time to provide meaningful results. This study aims to decrease simulation time and computational re...
Authors: Ameer Elaimy, Theodore Lawrence, Charles S. Mayo, Seyyedeh Azar Oliaei Motlagh, Benjamin S. Rosen
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To analyze the impact of clinical features on short-term survival, toxicity, and poor outcomes in HCC patients treated with SBRT,using automated data aggregation and enhanced algorithms with ...
Authors: Theodore Higgins Arsenault, Kyle O'Carroll, Christian Erik Petersen, Alex T. Price, Meiying Xing
Affiliation: University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To assess the performance of various supervised learning models’ ability to predict binary classification of radiomic data for head and neck (H&N) cancer treatment outcomes.
Methods: Using...
Authors: Nobuki Imano, Daisuke Kawahara, Misato Kishi, Yuji Murakami
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: This study aims to develop a comprehensive Multi-score by integrating Radiomics-score (Rad-score), Gene-score derived from gene expression levels, and tumor environment Rad-score (TE-Rad-scor...
Authors: Alejandro Bertolet, Jose Antonio Lopez-Valverde, Victor V. Onecha, Daniel Puerta
Affiliation: Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Granada, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Besides its superior dose conformity, proton therapy induces greater damage to tissue than conventional radiotherapies. This increased damage is usually quantified through the concept of rela...
Authors: Daria Gaykalova, Ranee Mehra, Jason K Molitoris, Hajar Moradmand, Lei Ren, Amit Sawant, Phuoc Tran
Affiliation: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland University Baltimore, University of Maryland, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Radiomics extracts quantitative imaging biomarkers from medical images. However, maintaining the reproducibility and stability of selected features across institutions and parameter settings ...
Authors: Clemens Grassberger, David (Bo) McClatchy, Harald Paganetti
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Abstract Preview: Purpose: While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for demonstrating efficacy, nearly 50% of late-stage clinical trials fail to meet their endpoint. Tools to study the design of ...
Authors: Alexei V. Chvetsov, Sunan Cui, Sunyoung Jang, Robert D. Stewart
Affiliation: University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Penn State College of Medicine, University of Washington
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To evaluate spatial variation of relative biological effectiveness (RBE) in COMS (Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study) eye plaques with low energy 125I and 103Pd photon sources as a function ...
Authors: Smith Apisarnthanarax, Clemens Grassberger, John Kang, Yejin Kim, Justin Leu, Dominic A. Maes, Matthew J. Nyflot, Ramesh Rengan, Annemarie Shepherd, Jing Zeng
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, University of Washington, Department of Radiation Oncology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Reirradiation (ReRT) is a rapidly growing clinical challenge driven by better systemic therapy and longer survival, though clear guidelines for ReRT are lacking. Fitting traditional normal ti...
Authors: Rico Castillo, Katherine Gonzalez, Casey C. Heirman, Kyle J. Lafata, Casey Y. Lee, Xiang Li, Yvonne M Mowery, Yvonne M Mowery, Daniel Murphy, Allison Pittman, Ashlyn G. Rickard
Affiliation: Duke University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, University of Pittsburgh
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To evaluate the ability of a deep learning model to identify pathomic features in lymph nodes of preclinical head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) models as surrogates for predicting ...
Authors: Rachel B. Ger, Xun Jia, Youfang Lai, Todd R. McNutt, Xingyi Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Radiotherapy (RT) plays an essential role for head and neck (HN) cancer treatment but often results in xerostomia due to salivary gland damage. It is important to mechanistically model the ra...
Authors: Joana Antunes, Scott James Bright, David B. Flint, Mojtaba Hoseini-Ghahfarokhi, Mandira Manandhar, Poliana Marinello, Gabriel O. Sawakuchi, Tingshi Su
Affiliation: MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics; Faculty of Science of University of Lisbon, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To study the accuracy of relative biological effectiveness (RBE) models to predict the RBE of a comprehensive panel of pancreatic cancer cell lines.
Methods: Clonogenic cell survival w...