Predicting treatment plan approval probability for high-dose-rate brachytherapy of cervical cancer using adversarial deep learning

Phys Med Biol. 2024 Mar 27. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad3880. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPredicting the probability of having the plan approved by the physician is important for automatic treatment planning. Driven by the mathematical foundation of deep learning that can use a deep neural network to represent functions accurately and flexibly, we developed a deep-learning framework that learns the probability of plan approval for cervical cancer high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDRBT).
Approach: The system consisted of a dose prediction network (DPN) and a plan-approval probability network (PPN). DPN predicts OAR D2cc and CTV D90% of the current fraction from the patient's current anatomy and prescription dose of HDRBT. PPN outputs the probability of a given plan being acceptable to the physician based on the patient's anatomy and the total dose combining HDRBT and external beam radiotherapy sessions. Training of the networks was achieved by first training them separately for a good initialization, and then jointly via an adversarial process. We collected approved treatment plans of 248 treatment fractions from 63 patients. Among them, 216 plans from 54 patients were employed in a four-fold cross validation study, and the remaining 32 plans from other 9 patients were saved for independent testing.
Main results: DPN predicted equivalent dose of 2 Gy for bladder, rectum, sigmoid D2cc and CTV D90% with a relative error of 11.51±6.92%, 8.23±5.75%, 7.12±6.00%, and ...
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