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  • Radiation Oncology
  • Health Informatics

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  • Accurate radiation therapy plan quality assessment is crucial for patient outcomes.
  • Existing methods may not fully capture the nuances of plan quality for patient-specific needs.
  • A robust and adaptive method is needed for reliable plan quality inference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a geometrically adaptive and statistically robust method for inferring radiation therapy plan quality.
  • To create a knowledge-based system referencing historical plans for patient-specific quality evaluation.
  • To establish metrics for quantifying plan quality and identifying trends in treatment planning.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a novel plan similarity metric for high-dimensional geometrical difference quantification to retrieve similar historical plans.
  • Employed dosimetric statistical inferences from similar plans to evaluate current plan quality.
  • Proposed dosimetric result probability and dose deviation index metrics for quantifying quality.
  • Validated the method on 927 head and neck cancer treatment plans, analyzing eight organs at risk.

Main Results:

  • The method successfully identified suboptimal plans that were subsequently replanned, reducing parotid gland doses significantly (31.7% and 18.2% for left and right, respectively).
  • 83% of suboptimal cases would have been missed without the proposed similarity plan selection.
  • Population analysis showed significant improvement in average parotid sparing over a decade (21.7% reduction in dosimetric result probability).
  • Retrospective analysis revealed a correlation between improved dose sparing and increased dose prescription to planning targets.

Conclusions:

  • The developed similar plan retrieval and analysis methodology accurately predicts current plan quality.
  • The workflow can serve as a real-time plan quality assurance tool in clinical settings.
  • The proposed metrics facilitate plan quality analytics, uncovering historical trends in clinical treatment planning.