RADIOTHERAPY METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND WORKFLOW-ORIENTED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES
Granted: May 18, 2023
Application Number:
20230149738
Disclosed herein are radiotherapy systems and methods that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). In an embodiment, a system comprises a first display in communication with a server, the first display configured to display a first graphical user interface; a second display in communication with the server, the second display configured to display a second graphical user interface, wherein the server is configured to: present the first graphical user interface for…
MACHINE LEARNING FOR INTELLIGENT RADIOTHERAPY DATA ANALYTICS
Granted: March 30, 2023
Application Number:
20230102914
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for predicting performance attributes of radiotherapy machines. A processor generates a machine-readable object by executing an algorithm using an electronic log file comprising at least one operational attribute of a radiotherapy machine and a corresponding timestamp. The processor executes a machine learning model using the machine-readable object to predict a performance attribute of the radiotherapy machine. The processor provides the…
TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION USING DOSE ESTIMATION AND CONFLICT DETECTION
Granted: February 23, 2023
Application Number:
20230057253
Systems and methods for radiation treatment planning can include a computing system determining an estimate of radiation dose distribution within an anatomical region of a patient, and determining a cost matrix representing an objective function, using the estimate of radiation dose distribution. The computing system can project the cost matrix on each of a plurality of fluence planes. Each of the plurality of fluence planes can be associated with a corresponding gantry-couch orientation…
RADIOTHERAPY METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND WORKFLOW-ORIENTED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES
Granted: February 23, 2023
Application Number:
20230054200
Disclosed herein are radiotherapy systems and methods that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). In an embodiment, a system comprises a first display in communication with a server, the first display configured to display a first graphical user interface; a second display in communication with the server, the second display configured to display a second graphical user interface, wherein the server is configured to: present the first graphical user interface for…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING USING DEEP LEARNING ENGINES
Granted: January 19, 2023
Application Number:
20230020911
Example methods for adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning using deep learning engines are provided. One example method may comprise obtaining treatment image data associated with a first imaging modality and planning image data associated with a second imaging modality. The treatment image data may be acquired during a treatment phase of a patient. Also, planning image data associated with a second imaging modality may be acquired prior to the treatment phase to generate a treatment…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING USING DEEP LEARNING ENGINES
Granted: January 19, 2023
Application Number:
20230020911
Example methods for adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning using deep learning engines are provided. One example method may comprise obtaining treatment image data associated with a first imaging modality and planning image data associated with a second imaging modality. The treatment image data may be acquired during a treatment phase of a patient. Also, planning image data associated with a second imaging modality may be acquired prior to the treatment phase to generate a treatment…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENABLED PREFERENCE LEARNING
Granted: December 29, 2022
Application Number:
20220414428
Embodiments described herein provide for training an artificial intelligence model to become a preference-aware model. The artificial intelligence model preferences as the artificial intelligence model trains. Reinforcement learning is used to train experts in the artificial intelligence model such that each expert is trained to converge to a unique preference. The architecture of the artificial intelligence model is highly flexible. Upon executing a trained model, users can select…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELING TO SUGGEST FIELD GEOMETRY TEMPLATES
Granted: December 29, 2022
Application Number:
20220415472
Embodiments described herein provide for recommending radiotherapy treatment attributes. A machine learning model predicts the preference of a medical professional and provides relevant suggestions (or recommendations) of radiotherapy treatment attributes for various categories of radiotherapy treatment. Specifically, the machine learning model predicts field geometry attributes from various field geometry attribute options for various field geometry attribute categories. The machine…
CLASSIFICATION OF ORGAN OF INTEREST SHAPES FOR AUTOSEGMENTATION QUALITY ASSURANCE
Granted: December 29, 2022
Application Number:
20220414867
Embodiments described herein provide for receiving a second image comprising an overlay depicting an organ-at-risk (OAR) segmentations. The overlay is generated by a first machine learning model based on a first image depicting the anatomical region of a current patient. A second machine learning model receives the second image and set of third images depicting prior patient OAR segmentations on which the second machine learning model was trained. The second machine learning model…
MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR SOLVING BEAM ANGLE OPTIMIZATION
Granted: December 29, 2022
Application Number:
20220414525
Embodiments described herein provide for revising radiation therapy treatment plans, and in particular, revising beam angles used during radiation therapy treatment. A computer may receive a radiation therapy treatment plan based on a particular patient's diagnosis. The computer may use a machine learning model to revise radiation therapy treatment parameters such as a beam angle indicating a direction of radiation into the patient. The machine learning model may use reinforcement…
AUTOMATIC LOCALIZED EVALUATION OF CONTOURS WITH VISUAL FEEDBACK
Granted: December 29, 2022
Application Number:
20220414402
A localized evaluation network incorporates a discriminator acting as classifier, which may be included within a generative adversarial network (GAN). GAN may include a generative network such as U-NET for creating segmentations. The localized evaluation network is trained on image pairs including medical images of organs of interest and segmentation (mask) images. The network is trained to distinguish whether an image pair does or does not represent the ground truth. GAN examines…
BEAM-OFF MOTION THRESHOLDS IN RADIATION THERAPY BASED ON BREATH-HOLD LEVEL DETERMINATION
Granted: December 29, 2022
Application Number:
20220409931
A computer-implemented method of performing a treatment fraction of radiation therapy comprises: determining a current position of a target volume of patient anatomy; based on the current position of the target volume, computing an accumulated dose for non-target tissue proximate the target volume; determining that the accumulated dose is less than a current value for a dose budget of the non-target tissue; and in response to the accumulated dose being less than the current value for the…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE MONITORING OF PROTON BEAM EMITTING AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS
Granted: December 1, 2022
Application Number:
20220386446
A remote diagnostic monitoring of operating states for physical components of a particle accelerator system includes generating, by at least one processor, a component hierarchy corresponding to a physical arrangement of one or more physical components of a particle emitting system and including corresponding operating indicators of operating states of the physical components, identifying, by the at least one processor, a faulted physical component among the physical components,…
PATIENT MARKING AND POSITIONING IN A RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM
Granted: December 1, 2022
Application Number:
20220379140
An example method for a radiation therapy system that includes a movable couch to perform radiation therapy has been disclosed. One method includes based on the X-ray images of an anatomical region of the patient that includes a target volume, reconstructing a digital volume of the anatomical region and based on a user input indicating a location of a patient origin in the digital volume, determining one or more shift values for repositioning the patient origin at an isocenter of the…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF PROTON BEAM EMITTING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM
Granted: November 24, 2022
Application Number:
20220370832
A remote diagnostic control of physical components of a particle accelerator system includes presenting, by at least one processor at a first physical location, a fault control interface including at least one control affordance corresponding to a physical component associated with a particle emitting system and a particle delivery system each located at a second physical location remote from the first physical location, and at least one arrangement presentation corresponding to the…
REMOTE CONTROL AND REMOTE MONITORING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PROTON BEAM EMITTING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM
Granted: November 24, 2022
Application Number:
20220370830
A remote diagnostic monitoring and control of physical components of a particle accelerator system has a particle emitting system located at a first physical site and includes one or more particle emitting system components to operate the particle emitting system, a particle delivery system located at the first physical site and including one or more particle delivery system components to operate the particle delivery system, a particle system gateway located at the first physical site…
MAGNETORESISTIVE LINEAR POSITION DETECTION IN A RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM
Granted: November 17, 2022
Application Number:
20220362585
A multileaf collimator includes a plurality of movable leaves for shaping a radiotherapy beam, wherein each leaf is independently movable in a same linear travel direction. Each leaf includes a linear array of magnets disposed on a measurement surface of the leaf and an array of magnetoresistive sensors that is disposed proximate the measurement surfaces of the leaves.
RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM WITH FOLLOW-THE-LIGHTS USER INTERFACE
Granted: November 17, 2022
Application Number:
20220362581
Example methods and apparatuses of controlling a user interface with a plurality of input mechanisms are disclosed. One example method includes causing a first set of input mechanisms in the plurality of input mechanisms to be visually emphasized via a first visual technique while a second set of input mechanisms in the plurality of input mechanisms is not visually emphasized via the first visual technique, receiving a user input via an input mechanism that is included in the first set,…
MOTION ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Granted: October 6, 2022
Application Number:
20220313181
A method of imaging a region of patient anatomy having a target volume includes performing an autosegmentation of a high-contrast portion of a first reconstructed volume of the region to generate a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the high-contrast portion disposed within the region and generating a set of two-dimensional (2D) mask projections of the region by performing a forward projection process on the 3D representation, wherein each 2D mask projection in the set of 2D mask…
BEAM SPOT TUNING IN A RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM
Granted: October 6, 2022
Application Number:
20220314028
An example computer-implemented method for tuning a beam spot in a radiation therapy system has been disclosed. The example method includes configuring an electron beam to generate a first beam spot on an electron-beam target of the radiation therapy system, generating, using an imager of the radiation therapy system, a first plurality of projection images of the first beam spot, wherein each of the projection images of the first beam spot is generated with a line of sight blocked…
