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Artificial intelligence for simplified patient-centered dosimetry in radiopharmaceutical therapies

Lopez-Montes, Alejandro, Yousefirizi, Fereshteh, Chen, Yizhou, Salimi, Yazdan, Seifert, Robert, Afshar-Oromieh, Ali, Uribe, Carlos, Rominger, Axel, Zaidi, Habib, Rahmim, Arman, Shi, Kuangyu

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

KEY WORDS: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Theranostics, Dosimetry, Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT), Patient-friendly dosimetry KEY POINTS - The rapid evolution of radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) highlights the growing need for personalized and patient-centered dosimetry. - Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers solutions to the key limitations in current dosimetry calculations. - The main advances on AI for simplified dosimetry toward patient-friendly RPT are reviewed. - Future directions on the role of AI in RPT dosimetry are discussed.


Semi-Supervised Learning for Dose Prediction in Targeted Radionuclide: A Synthetic Data Study

Zhang, Jing, Bousse, Alexandre, Imbert, Laetitia, Xue, Song, Shi, Kuangyu, Bert, Julien

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Targeted Radionuclide Therapy (TRT) is a modern strategy in radiation oncology that aims to administer a potent radiation dose specifically to cancer cells using cancer-targeting radiopharmaceuticals. Accurate radiation dose estimation tailored to individual patients is crucial. Deep learning, particularly with pre-therapy imaging, holds promise for personalizing TRT doses. However, current methods require large time series of SPECT imaging, which is hardly achievable in routine clinical practice, and thus raises issues of data availability. Our objective is to develop a semi-supervised learning (SSL) solution to personalize dosimetry using pre-therapy images. The aim is to develop an approach that achieves accurate results when PET/CT images are available, but are associated with only a few post-therapy dosimetry data provided by SPECT images. In this work, we introduce an SSL method using a pseudo-label generation approach for regression tasks inspired by the FixMatch framework. The feasibility of the proposed solution was preliminarily evaluated through an in-silico study using synthetic data and Monte Carlo simulation. Experimental results for organ dose prediction yielded promising outcomes, showing that the use of pseudo-labeled data provides better accuracy compared to using only labeled data.


RadField3D: A Data Generator and Data Format for Deep Learning in Radiation-Protection Dosimetry for Medical Applications

Lehner, Felix, Lombardo, Pasquale, Castillo, Susana, Hupe, Oliver, Magnor, Marcus

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this research work, we present our open-source Geant4-based Monte-Carlo simulation application, called RadField3D, for generating threedimensional radiation field datasets for dosimetry. Accompanying, we introduce a fast, machine-interpretable data format with a Python API for easy integration into neural network research, that we call RadFiled3D. Both developments are intended to be used to research alternative radiation simulation methods using deep learning. All data used for our validation (measured and simulated), along with our source codes, are published in separate repositories.


Learning-based estimation of dielectric properties and tissue density in head models for personalized radio-frequency dosimetry

Rashed, Essam A., Diao, Yinliang, Hirata, Akimasa

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Radio-frequency dosimetry is an important process in human safety and for compliance of related products. Recently, computational human models generated from medical images have often been used for such assessment, especially to consider the inter-variability of subjects. However, the common procedure to develop personalized models is time consuming because it involves excessive segmentation of several components that represent different biological tissues, which limits the inter-variability assessment of radiation safety based on personalized dosimetry. Deep learning methods have been shown to be a powerful approach for pattern recognition and signal analysis. Convolutional neural networks with deep architecture are proven robust for feature extraction and image mapping in several biomedical applications. In this study, we develop a learning-based approach for fast and accurate estimation of the dielectric properties and density of tissues directly from magnetic resonance images in a single shot. The smooth distribution of the dielectric properties in head models, which is realized using a process without tissue segmentation, improves the smoothness of the specific absorption rate (SAR) distribution compared with that in the commonly used procedure. The estimated SAR distributions, as well as that averaged over 10-g of tissue in a cubic shape, are found to be highly consistent with those computed using the conventional methods that employ segmentation.