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Joakim da Silva¹, Daniel Hernández Escobar², Tor Kjellsson Lindblom¹

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Summary

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This study introduces an optimized method for generating hundreds of Gamma Knife radiosurgery plans quickly, enabling interactive adjustments for better treatment outcomes. The approach significantly speeds up the planning process, allowing for real-time clinical trade-off navigation.

Keywords:

GPU multicriteria optimization radiosurgery

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Area of Science:

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Computational Biology
Radiotherapy

Background:

Radiosurgery treatment planning is an iterative process involving trade-offs between clinical objectives.
Current methods require rerunning optimizers for each adjustment, delaying treatment.
Simultaneously generating multiple plans could enable interactive exploration of trade-offs.

Purpose of the Study:

To optimize hundreds of Gamma Knife radiosurgery plans rapidly for interactive Pareto navigation.
To integrate interactive clinical trade-off exploration into the clinical workflow.

Main Methods:

Applied the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to the linear-program formulation of the Lightning optimizer.
Implemented CPU and GPU versions of ADMM in Matlab, comparing performance against a dual-simplex solver.
Evaluated the method on 20 clinical cases with varying target complexities.

Main Results:

ADMM achieved significant speedups: 1.6-97x on CPU and 54-1500x on GPU compared to simplex.
Hundreds of plans (81-441) were generated in under two minutes on GPU, even for large cases.
Plan quality metrics showed minimal differences (0.0-0.1% mean difference) compared to simplex, with comparable standard deviations.

Conclusions:

ADMM is effectively adapted for radiosurgery plan optimization, producing numerous high-quality Gamma Knife plans rapidly.
The method enables streamlined, on-demand multicriteria optimization.
Facilitates interruption-free navigation of clinical trade-offs during treatment planning.