Automated beam placement for breast radiotherapy using a support vector machine based algorithm

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2536-2543

  Zhao, Xuan ^a   Kong, Dewen ^a   Jozsef, Gabor ^b   Chang, Jenghwa ^b   Wong, Edward K ^a   Formenti, Silvia C ^b   Wang, Yao ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

automated beam placement; breast radiotherapy; support vector machines

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COST FUNCTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

AUTOMATED BEAM PLACEMENT; AUTOMATED METHODS; BREAST RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; SUPERFICIAL LAYERS; VOLUMES OF INTERESTS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84861581018     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3700736     Document Type: Article

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