SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING USING PLAN QUALITY SCORES

• Main Authors: PELTOLA, Jarkko, SUHONEN, Pauli Mikael
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.06.2024
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

Systems and methods for radiation treatment planning can include a computing system optimizing an objective function to determine a radiotherapy plan. The objection function can be defined in terms of one or more optimization objectives related to parameters of the radiotherapy plan. The computer system can compute a quality score of the radiotherapy plan based on the parameters of the radiotherapy plan. The quality score can be defined in terms of one or more quality metrics. The computer system can determine whether the quality score satisfies one or more criteria, and adjust one or more parameters of the objective function upon determining that the quality score does not satisfy the one or more criteria. If the quality score is determined to satisfy the one or more criteria, the computer system can provide the parameters of the radiotherapy plan as output.