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FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.700343
Keywords
deep learning; radiotherapy; quality assurance; prediction model; dose difference
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- Nurture projects for basic research of Shanghai Chest Hospital
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Using UNet++ for quality assurance in radiotherapy allows for accurate classification of failed or pass fields, prediction of gamma passing rates for different gamma criteria, and prediction of dose differences. The results indicate that UNet++ based Virtual QA shows promise in quality assurance for radiotherapy.
The dose verification in radiotherapy quality assurance (QA) is time-consuming and places a heavy workload on medical physicists. To provide a clinical tool to perform patient specific QA accurately, the UNet++ is investigated to classify failed or pass fields (the GPR lower than 85% is considered failed while the GPR higher than 85% is considered pass), predict gamma passing rates (GPR) for different gamma criteria, and predict dose difference from virtual patient-specific quality assurance in radiotherapy. UNet++ was trained and validated with 473 fields and tested with 95 fields. All plans used Portal Dosimetry for dose verification pre-treatment. Planar dose distribution of each field was used as the input for UNet++, with QA classification results, gamma passing rates of different gamma criteria, and dose difference were used as the output. In the test set, the accuracy of the classification model was 95.79%. The mean absolute error (MAE) were 0.82, 0.88, 2.11, 2.52, and the root mean squared error (RMSE) were 1.38, 1.57, 3.33, 3.72 for 3%/3mm, 3%/2 mm, 2%/3 mm, 2%/2 mm, respectively. The trend and position of the predicted dose difference were consistent with the measured dose difference. In conclusion, the Virtual QA based on UNet++ can be used to classify the field passed or not, predict gamma pass rate for different gamma criteria, and predict dose difference. The results show that UNet++ based Virtual QA is promising in quality assurance for radiotherapy.
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