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  • Medical imaging analysis
  • Radiotherapy research
  • Pulmonary function testing

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  • Radiation pneumonitis is a common side effect of lung cancer radiation therapy, impacting treatment.
  • Assessing regional ventilation changes is crucial for understanding treatment response but is hindered by noisy data.
  • Current methods struggle with artifacts in ventilation maps, complicating analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a robust framework for analyzing longitudinal functional ventilation changes.
  • To accurately identify physiological changes from noisy ventilation scan data.
  • To quantify significant increases and declines in lung function during radiotherapy.

Main Methods:

  • A novel framework was created to estimate physiological changes from longitudinal ventilation scans.
  • The algorithm prioritizes monotonic trends and down-weights fluctuating regions.
  • The model was validated on synthetic data and applied to 11 lung cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, using CT-derived ventilation maps.

Main Results:

  • The framework identified significant functional decline in 3/11 patients and functional increase in 4/11, linked to tumor regression.
  • A control dataset showed only 1.6% significant changes, compared to 32% in the original patient data.
  • This demonstrates the framework's ability to distinguish true changes from noise and artifacts.

Conclusions:

  • A new framework effectively analyzes functional ventilation changes from longitudinal data.
  • Significant functional shifts occur during lung cancer radiotherapy, impacting treatment.
  • This framework can potentially guide adaptive radiotherapy strategies by assessing ventilation changes.