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Area of Science:

  • Oncology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ophthalmology

Background:

  • Radiotherapy can cause radiation-induced optic neuropathy, leading to vision loss.
  • Quantifying visual field deficits and their relation to radiation dose is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply archetypal analysis, an AI technique, to identify visual field loss patterns after proton therapy.
  • To model the spatial evolution of these patterns and their relationship with radiation dose.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized machine learning on visual field perimetry data to define visual archetypes.
  • Analyzed associations between archetype proportions and radiation dose metrics using linear regression, adjusting for baseline deficits.

Main Results:

  • Identified 7 archetypal patterns of visual field loss in 236 patients.
  • Observed significant associations between radiation dose and visual field loss patterns, with a 0.2% decrease in normal vision per 1 Gy increase in minimum chiasm dose.
  • Longitudinal analysis showed annual declines in normal visual field archetypes, particularly in patients with moderate baseline deficits.

Conclusions:

  • This is the first use of archetypal analysis to predict radiation-induced optic neuropathy.
  • The approach provides mechanistic insights into optic pathway injury and supports personalized radiotherapy.
  • Enables correlation between radiation dose and functional vision loss at a voxel level.