Ant colony system for the beam angle optimization problem in radiotherapy planning: A preliminary study

2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE CEC 2005. Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1532-1538

  Li, Yongjie ^a   Yao, Dezhong ^a   Chen, Wufan ^a   Zheng, Jiancheng ^b   Yao, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Topslane Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION (BAO); INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 27144558574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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