As radiation therapy has become more complex in its procedures, new methods are devised to treat patients. Many features are being constantly added to improve the traditional application, ...

When considering the need for radiation therapy (RT) in low-resource settings around the world, many challenges need to be addressed. The availability of RT resources remains the primary challenge for ...

Auto-contouring has been studied intensely 11 and is known to reduce contouring time 13,14 and interobserver variation 15-19 across a variety of cancer sites, although manual editing is still required ...

Before performing radiation therapy, oncologists review medical images to identify tumors and surrounding tissue, a process known as contouring. Researchers have developed a new method for ...

NEW YORK, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Radformation, the leader in radiation oncology automation, has released AutoContour. The AI-driven segmentation tool can automatically segment over for… ...

Guideline-Based Segmentation (GBS™) solution for responsible radiation therapy contouring Radiotherapy needs more than just fast and accurate auto-contouring; it also requires training and ...

Radiation oncologists, for example, seek optimized image quality to support contouring and delineation of the tumour volume as well as adjacent critical structures and organs-at-risk (OARs). Medical ...

Contouring is part of the radiotherapy treatment planning process. A healthcare professional will outline the area of the tumour on images from CT scans or MRI scans to guide radiotherapy. They also ...

In Tanzania, radiation oncologists have been using paper and a needle to contour in 2D, which is much less precise than the 3D method. “In my three years of training as a radiation oncologist, I had ...