Evaluation treatment planning system for oropharyngeal cancer patient using machine learning

• Published in: Applied radiation and isotopes 2023-09, Vol.199, p.110785-110785, Article 110785
• Main Authors: Glayl, Ahmed Ghanim, Salem, Karrar Hazim, Noori, Harith Muthanna, Abdul-Zahra, Dalael Saad, Shareef Abdalhussien, Naeem, Alkhafaji, Mohammed Ayad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Machine learning (ML); Oropharyngeal cancer (OPC); Radiotherapy (RT)
• ISSN: 0969-8043; 1872-9800
• DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110785

Oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) comprises a group of various malignant tumours that grow in the throat, larynx, mouth, sinuses, and nose. to investigate the performance of the OPC VMAT model by comparison to clinical plans in terms of dosimetric parameters and normal tissue complication probabilities. Tune the model which at least matches the performance of clinical created photon treatment plans and analyse and find the most appropriate strategic plan scheme for OPC. The machine learning (ML) plans are compared to the reference plans (clinical plans) based on dose constraints and target coverage. VMAT oropharynx ML model of Raystation development 11B version (non-clinical) was used. A model was trained by using different modalities. A different strategy of machine learning and clinical plans was performed for five patients. The dose Prescribed for OPC is 70 Gy, 2 Gy per fraction (2Gy/Fx). The PTV was derived for the primary tumour and secondary tumour, PTV+7000 cGy and PTV_5425 cGy volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) were used with beams performing a full 360° rotation around the single isocenter. Organs at risk were observed that the volume of L-Eye in clinical plan (AF) for the case1 treatment planning could be successfully used ensuring efficiency and lower than MLVMAT and MLVMAT-org plans were 372 cGy, 697 cGy and 667 cGy respectively, while showed case2, case3, case4 and case5 are better to protect the critical organs in ML plan compare with a clinical plan. DHI for the PTV-7000 and PTV-5425 is between 1 and 1.34, While DCI for PTV-7000 and PTV-5425 is between 0.98 and 1.