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Adapting automated treatment planning configurations across international centres for prostate radiotherapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Automated configurations are increasingly utilised for radiotherapy treatment planning. This study investigates whether automated treatment planning configurations are adaptable across clinics with different treatment planning protocols for prostate radiotherapy.

Material and methods

The study comprised three participating centres, each with pre-existing locally developed prostate AutoPlanning configurations using the Pinnacle³® treatment planning system. Using a three-patient training dataset circulated from each centre, centres modified local prostate configurations to generate protocol compliant treatment plans for the other two centres. Each centre applied modified configurations on validation datasets distributed from each centre (10 patients from 3 centres). Plan quality was assessed through DVH analysis and protocol compliance.

Results

All treatment plans were clinically acceptable, based off relevant treatment protocol. Automated planning configurations from Centre's A and B recorded 2 and 18 constraint and high priority deviations respectively. Centre C configurations recorded no high priority deviations. Centre A configurations produced treatment plans with superior dose conformity across all patient PTVs (mean?=?1.14) compared with Centre's B and C (mean?=?1.24 and 1.22). Dose homogeneity was consistent between all centre's configurations (mean?=?0.083, 0.077, and 0.083 respectively).

Conclusions

This study demonstrates that automated treatment planning configurations can be shared and implemented across multiple centres with simple adaptations to local protocols.

SUBMITTER: Roach D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7807573 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Adapting automated treatment planning configurations across international centres for prostate radiotherapy.

Roach Dale D Wortel Geert G Ochoa Cesar C Jensen Henrik R HR Damen Eugene E Vial Philip P Janssen Tomas T Hansen Christian Rønn CR

Physics and imaging in radiation oncology 20190424

<h4>Background and purpose</h4>Automated configurations are increasingly utilised for radiotherapy treatment planning. This study investigates whether automated treatment planning configurations are adaptable across clinics with different treatment planning protocols for prostate radiotherapy.<h4>Material and methods</h4>The study comprised three participating centres, each with pre-existing locally developed prostate AutoPlanning configurations using the Pinnacle<sup>3</sup>® treatment planning ...[more]

PMID: 33458261

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