Machine Learning With Radiation Oncology Big Data

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Title

Machine Learning With Radiation Oncology Big Data

Subject

Big data
Machine learning
Artificial intelligence

Description

Radiation oncology is uniquely positioned to harness the power of big data as vast amounts of data are generated at an unprecedented pace for individual patients in imaging studies and radiation treatments worldwide. The big data encountered in the radiotherapy clinic may include patient demographics stored in the electronic medical record (EMR) systems, plan settings and dose volumetric information of the tumors and normal tissues generated by treatment planning systems (TPS), anatomical and functional information from diagnostic and therapeutic imaging modalities (e.g., CT, PET, MRI and kVCBCT) stored in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), as well as the genomics, proteomics and metabolomics information derived from blood and tissue specimens. Yet, the great potential of big data in radiation oncology has not been fully exploited for the benefits of cancer patients due to a variety of technical hurdles and hardware limitations. With recent development in computer technology, there have been increasing and promising applications of machine learning algorithms involving the big data in radiation oncology. This research topic is intended to present novel technological breakthroughs and state-of-the-art developments in machine learning and data mining in radiation oncology in recent years.

Creator

Lei Xing

Issam El Naqa
Jun Deng

Source

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/6126/machine-learning-with-radiation-oncology-big-data

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

Date

2019

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Book

Identifier

10.3389/978-2-88945-730-4

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