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¹Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New York, New York 10065, USA. stabenah@mskcc.org

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Reduced-order constrained optimization (ROCO) now creates clinically acceptable intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plans for advanced lung cancer automatically. This method significantly reduces planning time, saving a median of 105 minutes per patient.

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Radiation Oncology

Background:

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) planning for advanced lung cancer presents challenges.
Previous applications of reduced-order constrained optimization (ROCO) were successful for prostate cancer.
Integrating ROCO with clinical treatment planning systems requires adaptation for lung cancer specifics.

Purpose of the Study:

To implement and evaluate a novel ROCO approach for rapid, automated IMRT plan generation in advanced lung cancer.
To incorporate mean dose hard constraints alongside existing point-dose and dose-volume constraints.
To validate the clinical acceptability and efficiency of the ROCO method within a clinical workflow.

Main Methods:

ROCO involves sampling treatment plan space using penalty-based quadratic objectives.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is employed for dimensionality reduction, creating an efficient basis.
A final constrained optimization is solved over this basis to yield clinically acceptable IMRT plans.

Main Results:

ROCO successfully generated clinically acceptable IMRT plans for 12 stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases.
The generated plans met all clinical constraints and were competitive with existing clinical plans.
The approach demonstrated a median time saving of 105 minutes per patient compared to conventional planning.

Conclusions:

ROCO effectively addresses challenges in lung cancer IMRT planning, including site complexity and constraint management.
The updated ROCO implementation, using full dose calculation, ensures clinical constraints are met.
This work extends ROCO's utility for automated IMRT plan creation to advanced NSCLC, building on prior prostate cancer applications.