Background/Purpose: Tomotherapy may deliver high-quality whole breast irradiation at static angles. The aim of this study was to implement Knowledge-Based (KB) automatic planning for left-sided whole breast using this modality. Materials/Methods: Virtual volumetric plans were associated to the dose distributions of 69 Tomotherapy (TT) clinical plans of previously treated patients, aiming to train a KB-model using a commercial tool completely implemented in our treatment planning system. An individually optimized template based on the resulting KB-model was generated for automatic plan optimization. Thirty patients of the training set and ten new patients were considered for internal/external validation. Fully-automatic plans (KB-TT) were generated and compared using the same geometry/number of fields of the corresponding clinical plans. Results: KB-TT plans were successfully generated in 26/30 and 10/10 patients of the internal/external validation sets; for 4 patients whose original plans used only two fields, the manual insertion of one/two fields before running the automatic template was sufficient to obtain acceptable plans. Concerning internal validation, planning target volume V95%/D1%/dose distribution standard deviation improved by 0.9%/0.4Gy/0.2Gy (p < 0.05) against clinical plans; Organs at risk mean doses were also slightly improved (p < 0.05) by 0.07/0.4/0.2/0.01 Gy for left lung/heart/right breast/right lung respectively. Similarly satisfactory results were replicated in the external validation set. The resulting treatment duration was 8 ± 1 min, consistent with our clinical experience. The active planner time per patient was 5–10 minutes. Conclusion: Automatic TT left-sided breast KB-plans are comparable to or slightly better than clinical plans and can be obtained with limited planner time. The approach is currently under clinical implementation.

Knowledge-based automatic plan optimization for left-sided whole breast tomotherapy / Esposito, P. G.; Castriconi, R.; Mangili, P.; Broggi, S.; Fodor, A.; Pasetti, M.; Tudda, A.; Di Muzio, N. G.; del Vecchio, A.; Fiorino, C.. - In: PHYSICS AND IMAGING IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY. - ISSN 2405-6316. - 23:(2022), pp. 54-59. [10.1016/j.phro.2022.06.009]

Knowledge-based automatic plan optimization for left-sided whole breast tomotherapy

Di Muzio N. G.;
2022-01-01

Abstract

Background/Purpose: Tomotherapy may deliver high-quality whole breast irradiation at static angles. The aim of this study was to implement Knowledge-Based (KB) automatic planning for left-sided whole breast using this modality. Materials/Methods: Virtual volumetric plans were associated to the dose distributions of 69 Tomotherapy (TT) clinical plans of previously treated patients, aiming to train a KB-model using a commercial tool completely implemented in our treatment planning system. An individually optimized template based on the resulting KB-model was generated for automatic plan optimization. Thirty patients of the training set and ten new patients were considered for internal/external validation. Fully-automatic plans (KB-TT) were generated and compared using the same geometry/number of fields of the corresponding clinical plans. Results: KB-TT plans were successfully generated in 26/30 and 10/10 patients of the internal/external validation sets; for 4 patients whose original plans used only two fields, the manual insertion of one/two fields before running the automatic template was sufficient to obtain acceptable plans. Concerning internal validation, planning target volume V95%/D1%/dose distribution standard deviation improved by 0.9%/0.4Gy/0.2Gy (p < 0.05) against clinical plans; Organs at risk mean doses were also slightly improved (p < 0.05) by 0.07/0.4/0.2/0.01 Gy for left lung/heart/right breast/right lung respectively. Similarly satisfactory results were replicated in the external validation set. The resulting treatment duration was 8 ± 1 min, consistent with our clinical experience. The active planner time per patient was 5–10 minutes. Conclusion: Automatic TT left-sided breast KB-plans are comparable to or slightly better than clinical plans and can be obtained with limited planner time. The approach is currently under clinical implementation.
2022
AI in Radiation Oncology
Breast cancer
Knowledge-based models
Radiotherapy planning optimization
Tomotherapy
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