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Radiation Planning Assistant - A Web-based Tool to Support High-quality Radiotherapy in Clinics with Limited Resources
Published on: October 6, 2023
One-for-All Adaptive Radiotherapy Planning Agent: A Foundation Framework for Daily CBCT-guided Radiotherapy
Shaoyan Pan1,2,3, Kirk Jon Luca1, Yuan Gao1
1Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning seeks to enable accurate and individualized cancer care by ensuring that radiation dose conforms to the target while minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy tissues. Its success depends on accurate characterization of patient-specific anatomy at the time of treatment, whereas standard radiotherapy planning generally uses one pretreatment CT dataset for the entire treatment course, despite ongoing changes in disease extent and internal organ position. While daily adaptive radiotherapy (ART) can mitigate these discrepancies, it remains clinically impractical as each patient and fraction requires a bespoke, labor-intensive workflow. This process necessitates complex clinical decision-making-ranging from simple registration to a complete plan redesign involving CT collection, re-segmentation, and dose optimization-creating an unsustainable burden on hospital resources. In this work, we introduce the One-for-All Adaptive Radiotherapy Planning Agent, a unified foundation-model-based system that performs complete, treatment-specific online adaptive planning directly from daily cone-beam CT in under two minutes. The agent first autonomously predicts all essential planning components, including synthetic CT generation, multimodal alignment, and tumor/organ segmentation. It then intelligently leverages these outputs to execute the final clinical plan design, providing a comprehensive, automated solution for daily treatment. We also demonstrate that the agent enables clinicians to define planning with intent and intervene at critical decision points, ensuring a "human-in-the-loop" framework that generates acceptable plans before final approval. Evaluated on multiple datasets spanning head-and-neck, lung, abdominal, and prostate cancers with both photon and proton therapy, the proposed framework achieves clinically acceptable accuracy and plan quality comparable to clinically generated treatment plans, with target dose errors (D 98) generally within 2.0 Gy of the reference plan. The strong performance of the One-for-All agent highlights the promise of a unified foundation-model approach and opens opportunities for fast, scalable, and fully automated online adaptive radiotherapy across diverse clinical scenarios.

