ICCR & MCMA 2019: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN RADIOTHERAPY AND THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

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-Dose Calculation	Intra-Fraction SBRT Dose Calculation for Pancreas Cancer
-Imaging	Intra-Fraction SBRT Dose Calculation for Pancreas Cancer
-Motion Modeling	Intra-Fraction SBRT Dose Calculation for Pancreas Cancer
-Pancreas	Intra-Fraction SBRT Dose Calculation for Pancreas Cancer
-SBRT	Intra-Fraction SBRT Dose Calculation for Pancreas Cancer
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177Lu	Modeling SPECT auto-contouring acquisition for 177Lu Molecular RadioTherapy (MRT) using new developments in GATE/ GEANT4
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3D	CBCT image correction with a Unet trained on 2D slices and 3D patches
3D dosimetry	Understanding the challenges of deformable scintillation detectors through Monte Carlo simulations
3D printable material	Simulations for the improvement of bone-equivalent materials for proton beam dosimetry
3D visualization	P030: JAWS3D – A 3D dose visualization software for dental application
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4D	The TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation: A flexible tool for Monte Carlo particle transport simulations P093: Assessment of non-respiratory abdominal displacements using breathing-compensated 4D imaging of the gastrointestinal tract
4D CT	P072: 4D CT co-synchronized to real-time dynamic MRI acquired in the treatment room
4D dose calculation	Validation of 4D Monte Carlo dose calculations using a programmable deformable lung phantom
4D-CBCT reconstruction	U-net based deformation vector field estimation for motion-compensated 4D-CBCT reconstruction
4D-MRI	Hybrid 2D/4D MRI for motion management in liver radiotherapy
4DCT	ICCR Rising Stars 6: Optimising methodology for 4DCT radiomic feature extraction to predict distant failure in NSCLC patients treated with SBRT
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53BP1	Modeling of time and spatial evolution of cell nuclear foci induced by mixed radiation (X and alpha)
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6DOF Couch	P092: Measuring Registration and Motion Uncertainties in Brain Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Patients Treated on a 3DOF vs a 6DOF Couch: Does a New 6DOF Couch Justify Zero PTV Margins?
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AAA	P074: Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme
AAPM TG-43	Update of the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) TG-43 parameter database for brachytherapy
Abdominal Imaging	Physics-Based Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Organ Segmentation
aBNCT	Monte Carlo study of the mixed neutron and photon background in an aBNCT treatment room
absorbed dose	P150: Determination of absorbed dose in eye lens and thyroid in thorax computed tomography studies
absorption and scattering properties	Simulations for the improvement of bone-equivalent materials for proton beam dosimetry
Accelerated partial breast irradiation	P009: Evaluation of the modulation degrees in APBI IMRT plans
Actual delivered dose	Tracking bladder surface dose during radiotherapy for prostate cancers
Acuros	P133: Systematic Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans for TrueBeam linac using PRIMO
Acuros dose calcuation	P053: Introduction of a cloud based treatment planning system for a large multi-site radiotherapy centre
Acuros XB	P074: Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme
adaptive	Deep learning based 3D dose prediction with a self-evolving training dataset
Adaptive Proton Therapy	MCMA Rising Stars 6: Anatomical changes vs. calculation approximations: Which causes larger dose distortions for proton therapy patients?
Adaptive Radiation Therapy	Physics-Based Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Organ Segmentation
Adaptive Radiotherapy	Adapting the adaptive workflow using APIs, Events & Agents Fully automated NTCP triggered radiation therapy adaptation in non small cell lung cancer Deformable Image Registration using Structure Guidance for Dose Accumulation CBCT image correction with a Unet trained on 2D slices and 3D patches P017: Automated Checking Of Adaptive Treatments for Elekta Unity MR-Linac
Advanced Examples Category	P123: Status of the GEANT4 Advanced Examples for medical physics applications
AFRODITE clover detectors	Comparing measured and simulated prompt gamma cross-section data for carbon target using AFRODITE clover detector system
AI	Highlight talk: Deep Learning Model for Markerless Tracking in Spinal SBRT
AI and automation	A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization
Alanine dosimetry	Monte Carlo demonstration of the air-gap effect for alanine dosimeters in B-field
ALPIDE	Monte Carlo simulation of a micrometric dosimetry system based on the ALPIDE chip
analytical algorithm	P156: Monte Carlo evaluation of analytical dose calculations for proton therapy.
analytical model	Simulations for the improvement of bone-equivalent materials for proton beam dosimetry
analytical modeling	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
analytical probabilistic modeling	ICCR Rising Stars 1: Closed-form modeling of biological uncertainties in carbon ion therapy
analytical sampling methods	An analytical method to sample proton trajectories under the influence of multiple Coulomb scattering
Anatomical Changes	MCMA Rising Stars 6: Anatomical changes vs. calculation approximations: Which causes larger dose distortions for proton therapy patients?
Anatomical modelling	Predicting inter-fractional anatomical change in head and neck cancer patients using diffeomorphic image registration
anonymisation	P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories
Anonymization	P109: Audit Data Tool for the DcmCollab Dose Plan Bank
Anthropomorphic Phantom	Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy
Antiscatter grid	Evaluation of antiscatter grid performance in pediatric patients via Monte Carlo Simulation
api	P108: A Method for Serving Linac Log File Data On-Demand for Analysis Using a GraphQL Application Programming Interface
Arbitrary angle	Real-time tumour localization with single x-ray projection at arbitrary gantry angle using deep learning
Architecture	CorTx-RT: Service Oriented Architecture for Radiation Oncology Informatics
Artificial Intelligence	Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions P001: Deep learning for error detection in EPID dosimetry: A proof of concept
Artificial neural network	P051: Quality assurance based on portal imaging using artificial neural network methods for Varian and Elekta linacs
Artificial Neural Networks	P056: Computing IMRT dose distributions using artificial intelligence
Assistant	P061: An Ideal Planning Assistant Application for Guidance in Radiation Treatment Planning
Audit	P109: Audit Data Tool for the DcmCollab Dose Plan Bank
Auto segmentation of Radiology Images and tumors	Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions
auto-contouring	Modeling SPECT auto-contouring acquisition for 177Lu Molecular RadioTherapy (MRT) using new developments in GATE/ GEANT4
autoencoder	Development of a self-supervised autoencoder for anatomic classification of 3D data sets
automated	P021: Validation of forward projected EPID transit dosimetry for In Vivo dosimetry in an automated workflow & evaluation of initial patient data P099: Comparison of automated and pathologist assessment of radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis for Masson’s trichrome P020: Clinical implementation of plan quality control for automated prostate planning
automated analysis	QaTest: a fully automatized EPI analysis software for continuous quality assurance
Automated catheter reconstruction	P059: Automated catheter reconstruction for TRUS HDR prostate brachytherapy
Automated data extraction	The use of ontology in automated extraction of clinical data for machine learning: A Bayesian network example
automated data handling	QaTest: a fully automatized EPI analysis software for continuous quality assurance
Automated information generation	ICCR Rising Stars 2: Generalized Feature Analysis for Radiotherapy Application to Head and Neck Outcome Predictions
Automated multi-criterial treatment planning	Automatic parameter tuning of an algorithm for fast automated Pareto-optimal treatment plan generation
Automated multi-objective learning	Predicting distant failure after radiotherapy in cervix cancer via automated multi-objective model
automated planning	A novel system for fast and fully automated multi-criterial treatment planning for cervical cancer HDR brachytherapy P013: Fully automated multi-criterial beam angle selection to drastically reduce the number of non-coplanar beams in prostate SBRT
Automated segmentation	Transfer learning from CT to MRI: auto-segmentation of the parotid glands using a deep convolutional neural network approach
Automated Testing	Automated Script Testing For RayStation
Automated Treatment Planning	Automated Treatment Planning using Expedited Constrained Hierarchical Optimization: Plan quality and performance enhancements Fully automated treatment planning of deliverable VMAT by machine learning dose prediction and mimicking optimization in HNC P076: A mathematical optimization framework for spatial adjustments of dose distributions in high dose-rate brachytherapy
Automatic Organ Segmentation	Physics-Based Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Organ Segmentation Highlight talk: Using Federated Data Sources and Varian Learning Portal Framework to Train Neural Network for Automatic Organ Segmentation
Automatic parameter tuning	Automatic parameter tuning of an algorithm for fast automated Pareto-optimal treatment plan generation
automatic planning	Three-Dimensional Dose Prediction for Lung IMRT Patients with Variable Beam Configuration using Deep Neural Networks
automatic segmentation	Automated segmentation of pulmonary fibrosis on CT images for radiation therapy applications P073: Automatic segmentation of cardiac structures using B-spline deformation in breast cancer radiotherapy
Automation	Adapting the adaptive workflow using APIs, Events & Agents CorTx-RT: Service Oriented Architecture for Radiation Oncology Informatics AutoBrachy: an Automated Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance and Documentation System for High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy of Gynecological Cancer The impact of widespread clinical adoption of knowledge-based planning on treatment plan quality and variability P017: Automated Checking Of Adaptive Treatments for Elekta Unity MR-Linac P106: Implementation of the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System at CHUM - Going Paperless and Smart P111: Data pipelines in radiation oncology: lessons from software engineering P085: Automated Generation of Optimization Structures for Treatment Planning in Eclipse using Python P024: Dealing with large scale legacy code in a critical clinical infrastructure P018: Data driven plan QA to support large scale automation and adaptation P052: Pitfalls and lessons of in-house software development learned from developing PlanChecker: a tool for automated quality control of radiotherapy plan transfer from the planning system to the R&V system
Automation Methods	A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization
autosegmentation	P084: Clinical evaluation of deep learning methods for brain tumor contouring
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B-spline transformation	P073: Automatic segmentation of cardiac structures using B-spline deformation in breast cancer radiotherapy
Background characterization	Monte Carlo study of the mixed neutron and photon background in an aBNCT treatment room
Basic photon interaction data	Quantifying differences between theoretical models in calculations of Compton mass energy-transfer coefficients
Bayesian	Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer
Bayesian network	A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information The use of ontology in automated extraction of clinical data for machine learning: A Bayesian network example P079: Bayesian network structure for predicting two-year survival in patients diagnosed with lung cancer
beam model	P200: Understanding image artifacts for a prototype proton computed tomography scanner via Monte Carlo simulations P132: An automated computer assisted beam modelling tool for scanned proton beam therapy
Beam Orientation Optimization	Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy
Benchmarking	Validation of Geant4 fragmentation models for therapeutic 4He ion beams
beta emitters	DNA damage in cancer cells exposed to beta radiation measured experimentally and modeled in Monte Carlo simulations
big data	Prognostication of vascular calcification identified in 4DCT of lung cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy PROPEL, a multi-centre data collection system for radiotherapy analysis Infrastructure for a Radiation Oncology Quality Surveillance Program Monte Carlo quantification of statistical risk when using a surrogate radiomic marker Adapting classifiers to work with imbalanced data in machine learning P033: Correlation coefficient: a poor metric for multi-class classification P034: “Distributed Radiomics” - a signature validation study using a Personal Health Train infrastructure
big data in radiation oncology	Health Information Gateway and Exchange (HINGE): Realizing the potential of Big data in Radiation Oncology
bioinformatics	Introducing information on gut microbiota into toxicity modelling: preliminary results from a clinical trial
Biological damage	Monte Carlo track structure simulation study of the effect of radiation on neurons and their glial cells
biological equivalent dose	A systems oncology simulation framework for modelling 3D tumour spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia treatments
biological uncertainties	ICCR Rising Stars 1: Closed-form modeling of biological uncertainties in carbon ion therapy
Biology-Guided Radiotherapy	IAEA-AAPM TRS483 based reference dosimetry for the new biology guided radiotherapy system
Biomarker	A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information
biomechanical model	Articulated Skeleton Model Meets Iterative Registration Process to Reliably Detect Posture Changes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Biomedical Imaging	Extending EGSnrc with a Sum Over Paths Algorithm for Simulations of X-ray Grating Interferometry Modules
Biophysical models	The BIANCA model and its application for RBE predictions along hadrontherapy beams
BIRADS feature	BI-RADS Features Oriented Semi-supervised Deep Learning for Breast Ultrasound Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Bladder filling	Tracking bladder surface dose during radiotherapy for prostate cancers
Bladder surface dose	Tracking bladder surface dose during radiotherapy for prostate cancers
Blended PET/CT registration	Quantification of Local Metabolic Tumor Volume Changes by Registering Blended 18F-FDG PET-CT Images
Blood flow	ICCR Rising Stars 3: Modeling Radiation Dose to Circulating Lymphocytes for different radiotherapy modalities
BNCT-SPECT	Monte Carlo study of the mixed neutron and photon background in an aBNCT treatment room
bone brachytherapy	P128: Monto Carlo simulation of radioactive cement for bone brachytherapy
bone cement	P128: Monto Carlo simulation of radioactive cement for bone brachytherapy
Bootstrap	P079: Bayesian network structure for predicting two-year survival in patients diagnosed with lung cancer
Brachytherapy	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry Monte Carlo dosimetry of a custom-made 169Yb source for intensity modulated brachytherapy AutoBrachy: an Automated Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance and Documentation System for High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy of Gynecological Cancer P201: Determination of Dosimetric Parameters for Vacuum-sealed Miniature X-ray Brachytherapy Tube Dynamic model-based dosimetry of permanent implant brachytherapy Update of the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) TG-43 parameter database for brachytherapy A novel system for fast and fully automated multi-criterial treatment planning for cervical cancer HDR brachytherapy P117: Synthesis and modelling the effects of dose deposition of the palladium core and gold shell nanoparticle for brachytherapy P129: Modular design of sealed source applicator using Monte Carlo simulation for brachytherapy P130: Monte Carlo dosimetry for brachytherapy of cervical cancer
Brain cancer	Multiparametric MRI assessment of gross tumour volume and hippocampal changes over the course of brain cancer radiotherapy P083: Evaluation of MRI atlas-based automatic segmentations for organs at risk in the brain
Brain imaging	P152: Monte Carlo Based Determination of Radiation Scattering Effect on Image Quality in Brain Imaging with Fan-beam Collimator
Brain MRI	Generation of synthetic CT images for MRI-only proton therapy treatment planning using deep learning
Brain Radiation	ICCR Rising Stars 3: Modeling Radiation Dose to Circulating Lymphocytes for different radiotherapy modalities
brain tumor	P084: Clinical evaluation of deep learning methods for brain tumor contouring
Breast Cancer	BI-RADS Features Oriented Semi-supervised Deep Learning for Breast Ultrasound Computer-Aided Diagnosis P105: Deep-Mining lncRNA transcriptomics of breast cancer by TCGA RNA-Seq data P142: Assessment of radiation-induced second cancer risks in radiated organs after (3D-CRT) radiotherapy in breast cancer using (by) BEIR VII radiobiological model P140: A Hybrid IMRT Technique for Treatment of Breast Cancer: A Dosimetric Study
Breast radiotherapy	Breast cancer rotational radiotherapy with a kilovoltage x-ray source: validated Monte Carlo phantom studies
Busy Cancer Center	Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions
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Cancer	Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy
Cancer Pain	P063: Feasibility of using Natural Language Processing to extract cancer pain score from clinical notes
Cancer risk	P142: Assessment of radiation-induced second cancer risks in radiated organs after (3D-CRT) radiotherapy in breast cancer using (by) BEIR VII radiobiological model
cancer treatment	DNA damage in cancer cells exposed to beta radiation measured experimentally and modeled in Monte Carlo simulations
carbon ion therapy	ICCR Rising Stars 1: Closed-form modeling of biological uncertainties in carbon ion therapy
carbon therapy	First experimental demonstration of ion-therapy planning that combines a clinical biological model with ionization detail
Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED)	P131: Estimating Dose from Radiotherapy Treatments in the Vicinity of a Cardiac Pacemaker using Monte Carlo simulations
cardiac structures	P073: Automatic segmentation of cardiac structures using B-spline deformation in breast cancer radiotherapy
cardiac substructures segmentation	Stepping-in segmentation of cardiac substructures with deep learning
cardiac toxicity	P098: High doses to the heart affect overall survival in stage III lung cancer patients treated with conventionally fractionated radiation therapy.
CBCT	Monte Carlo-based software for imaging dose calculations in IGRT Respiratory motion model derived from CBCT projection data Generating Synthesized Computed Tomography (CT) from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) for Adaptive Radiation Therapy CBCT image correction with a Unet trained on 2D slices and 3D patches P147: A fast method for image simulation of electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs)
CBCT correction	P080: Evaluation of Synthesized Computed Tomography (sCT) Generated from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) by Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN)
CBCT-CT registration	P092: Measuring Registration and Motion Uncertainties in Brain Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Patients Treated on a 3DOF vs a 6DOF Couch: Does a New 6DOF Couch Justify Zero PTV Margins?
CDS	P068: A Clinical Data Model in Oncology to Enable Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services within 360 Oncology
CdZnTe detector	Monte Carlo study of the mixed neutron and photon background in an aBNCT treatment room
cell dosimetry	MCMA Rising Stars 3: Towards multiscale simulations with EGSnrc: tests on cellular length scales
cell irradiation	Monte Carlo modelling of orthovoltage irradiators for radiobiology research – the impact of insufficient backscatter material
cellular automaton model	A systems oncology simulation framework for modelling 3D tumour spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia treatments
Cellular dosimetry	P103: Machine learning techniques in microdosimetry: application to energy deposition within cell populations P146: Calculation of cellular S-values for Polygonal Mesh models: The impact of a realistic cell representation
Cellular response	MCMA Rising Stars 5: Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio
center of mass (COM)	P091: Line of Response (LOR)-based real-time tumor tracking for emission-guided radiotherapy
Cerenkov	MCMA Rising Stars 4: Cherenkov emission-based dosimetry: Detection angle and aperture study
Cervical Brachytherapy	Monte Carlo Dosimetry Study of Novel Rotating MRI-Compatible Shielded Tandems for Intensity Modulated Cervix Brachytherapy
cervical cancer	A novel system for fast and fully automated multi-criterial treatment planning for cervical cancer HDR brachytherapy P040: Patient Specific Quality Assurance (QA): Case of Cervical Cancer using Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) and Matrix
Cervix	Probabilistic optimization of the percentile dosage for cervix patients
Cervix Brachytherapy	Monte Carlo Dosimetry Study of Novel Rotating MRI-Compatible Shielded Tandems for Intensity Modulated Cervix Brachytherapy
cervix cancer	Predicting distant failure after radiotherapy in cervix cancer via automated multi-objective model Highlight talk: Radiomics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of cervix cancer patients: the need of harmonization and standardization
cGAN architecture	P004: Evaluating different generator networks of a conditional generative adversarial network for MR-CT synthesis
Chamber correction factors	Monte Carlo determination of chamber correction factors for medium energy X-ray beams between 50 and 300 kV
Chambolle-Pock	Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy
chemistry	A parameter study of chemistry simulation for DNA damage after proton irradiation with TOPAS-nBio
Cherenkov	MCMA Rising Stars 4: Cherenkov emission-based dosimetry: Detection angle and aperture study
Chondrosarcoma	Using Deep Learning Algorithm to Extract Tumour Information from Pathology and Surgical Notes of Chondrosarcoma Patients
chromosomal aberrations	Modeling of chromosome aberrations after combined exposure to X-rays and alpha particles
classification	Development of a self-supervised autoencoder for anatomic classification of 3D data sets Radiomics-based decision-support system in renal cell carcinomas P006: Automatic Labeling of OARs in Head-and-Neck Region using Non-local 3DResNet
classifier	P087: Feature based quality assurance of image segmentation for clinical trials
clinical brain 123I SPECT imaging	Investigation of keel versus knife edge pinhole profiles for a next-generation SPECT system dedicated to clinical brain imaging
clinical data model	P068: A Clinical Data Model in Oncology to Enable Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services within 360 Oncology
clinical decision support system	P068: A Clinical Data Model in Oncology to Enable Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services within 360 Oncology P019: Implementation of machine learning models in clinical practice
clinical implementation	P019: Implementation of machine learning models in clinical practice
clinical trial	P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories
clinical trials	P087: Feature based quality assurance of image segmentation for clinical trials P065: Modeling the design and application of non-inferiority trials in radiotherapy
Cloud based TPS	P053: Introduction of a cloud based treatment planning system for a large multi-site radiotherapy centre
Cloud Computing	Monte Carlo based Treatment Planning for GammaPod(tm) P113: The Functional Paradigm in RT Computing: Features & Realization
CLRP database	Update of the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) TG-43 parameter database for brachytherapy
Clustering	P090: Optimization of an unsupervised patient classification system from daily EPID images
Collision Detection	P015: Collision Detection of the Versa HD for ESAPI using Bullet Physics
Column generation	Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization Integrating DVH criteria into a column generation algorithm for VMAT P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy P077: Multi-criterial MLC segmentation to minimize plan quality loss
Combined treatment plan	Fractionation considerations in jointly optimized photon–carbon ion treatment plans
Commissioning and Validation	P071: Current status of the clinical use, commissioning and QA of Deformable Image Registration in UK radiotherapy centres
complexity indices	P050: IMRT quality analysis based on machine learning technique and complexity indices
Complexity metrics	P018: Data driven plan QA to support large scale automation and adaptation
Compton camera imaging	A dedicated Gate versatile module for Compton camera imaging
Compton energy transfer cross section	Quantifying differences between theoretical models in calculations of Compton mass energy-transfer coefficients
Computed Tomography	Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer P032: Bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scales in medical imaging with textural analysis – a biological basis for CT radiomics classifiers? P035: Learning from scanners: noise reduction and feature correction in Radiomics P149: Monte Carlo Calculations of Absorbed Doses Associated to Helical CT P150: Determination of absorbed dose in eye lens and thyroid in thorax computed tomography studies
computed tomography (CT)	Objective CT-based imaging biomarkers to quantify the evolution of radiation-induced lung damage
computer vision	Development of a self-supervised autoencoder for anatomic classification of 3D data sets
Computer-Aided Diagnosis	BI-RADS Features Oriented Semi-supervised Deep Learning for Breast Ultrasound Computer-Aided Diagnosis
cone-beam computed tomography	Dose calculation on upright cone beam CT
Cone-beam CT	Monte Carlo x-ray tube simulation for CBCT: A statistical analysis of the photon distribution components
Cone-Beam CT Simulation	Physics-Based Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Organ Segmentation
container	CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models
Context-Sensitive Spelling Correction	P025: Filoblu: Sentiment Analysis Application to Doctor-Patient Interactions
continuous integration	Development report for the open source dose calculation and optimization toolkit matRad P107: Improving development practice for creating and maintaining clinical, in-house developed software tools.
continuous portal imaging	P062: Automated characterisation of continuous portal imaging of radiotherapy FFF beams for SBRT verification
continuous quality assurance	QaTest: a fully automatized EPI analysis software for continuous quality assurance
Contour generation	Contour Generation with Realistic Inter-observer Variation
contour identification	P047: A neural network based approach to structure QA
Contour variability	Contour Generation with Realistic Inter-observer Variation
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography	The potential of photon-counting CT for quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging in radiotherapy using a maximum a posteriori estimator
Conversion	Generating Synthesized Computed Tomography (CT) from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) for Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Convoluted Neural Network	Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions
Convolutional neural network	Automated segmentation of pulmonary fibrosis on CT images for radiation therapy applications Physics-Based Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Organ Segmentation Deep Prostate MRI Image Understanding and Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks Highlight talk: Using Federated Data Sources and Varian Learning Portal Framework to Train Neural Network for Automatic Organ Segmentation Using Deep Learning Algorithm to Extract Tumour Information from Pathology and Surgical Notes of Chondrosarcoma Patients P006: Automatic Labeling of OARs in Head-and-Neck Region using Non-local 3DResNet P074: Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme P084: Clinical evaluation of deep learning methods for brain tumor contouring P007: Segmentation of bones for radiation therapy from medical dual-energy computed tomography volumes using the 3D U-Net
convolutional neural networks	Stepping-in segmentation of cardiac substructures with deep learning Deep learning in head & neck cancer prediction CBCT image correction with a Unet trained on 2D slices and 3D patches
CT	Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer Development and association of new metrics of dose and image quality for optimizing protocols in CT imaging Monte Carlo x-ray tube simulation for CBCT: A statistical analysis of the photon distribution components Quantification of Pulmonary Nodule Spiculation Using Angle-Preserving Spherical Conformal Parameterization Generating Synthesized Computed Tomography (CT) from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) for Adaptive Radiation Therapy P100: Comparing the efficacy of SBRT and IMRT in reducing radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis
CT reconstruction	Highlight talk: Restoring a Data General Nova computer used in the first CT scanner Intelligent Parameter Tuning for Iterative CT Reconstruction Via Quality-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning
CUDA	Fast dose Recalculation on GPU (FRoG) at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center
Cyberknife	Large-scale dosimetric comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo recalculated doses for lung robotic SBRT plan P120: Integration of the M6 Cyberknife in the Moderato Monte Carlo platform and prediction of beam parameters using machine learning
CycleGAN	Generating Synthesized Computed Tomography (CT) from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) for Adaptive Radiation Therapy P080: Evaluation of Synthesized Computed Tomography (sCT) Generated from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) by Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN)
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DAO	A fast inverse direct aperture optimization algorithm for volume-modulated arc therapy
Dashboard	P060: A dashboard to monitor Quality Check List items in MOSAIQ
Data	Modern mapping of local data for international distributed learning P106: Implementation of the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System at CHUM - Going Paperless and Smart
data aggregation	Infrastructure for a Radiation Oncology Quality Surveillance Program
data analysis	P108: A Method for Serving Linac Log File Data On-Demand for Analysis Using a GraphQL Application Programming Interface
data analytics	Health Information Gateway and Exchange (HINGE): Realizing the potential of Big data in Radiation Oncology Infrastructure for a Radiation Oncology Quality Surveillance Program
Data Augmentation	Physics-Based Data Augmentation for Deep Learning Organ Segmentation
data collection	PROPEL, a multi-centre data collection system for radiotherapy analysis
data collection infrastructures	P043: Harnessing the potential of data in clinical PACS with an open-source DICOM server
data pipeline	Modern mapping of local data for international distributed learning
data sharing	P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories
data standardization	Rule-based pattern matching and text extraction from radiotherapy clinical notes: is there a match? Health Information Gateway and Exchange (HINGE): Realizing the potential of Big data in Radiation Oncology
Data-driven QA	P018: Data driven plan QA to support large scale automation and adaptation
DcmCollab	P109: Audit Data Tool for the DcmCollab Dose Plan Bank
DCNN	Improving accuracy and robustness of deep convolutional neural network based thoracic OAR segmentation by training with data from local institution
Decision Analysis	P065: Modeling the design and application of non-inferiority trials in radiotherapy
Decision models	P001: Deep learning for error detection in EPID dosimetry: A proof of concept
deconvolution	Radial response function of a parallel plate ionization chamber studied using EGSnrc software
Dedicated breast CT	GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations for virtual clinical trials in X-ray breast imaging
deep convolutional neural network	On the impact of the training dataset on a deep fully convolutional neural network (DFCNN) for automatic segmentation of the prostate gland on CT images
Deep learning	Deep learning based 3D dose prediction with a self-evolving training dataset Radiotherapy Dose Prediction with Physician Desired Trade-offs U-net based deformation vector field estimation for motion-compensated 4D-CBCT reconstruction CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer Inverse Planning without Optimization Stepping-in segmentation of cardiac substructures with deep learning Highlight talk: On the development of an AI based Incident Learning Framework for Clinical Workflow Transfer learning from CT to MRI: auto-segmentation of the parotid glands using a deep convolutional neural network approach Attenuation and scatter correction of portal images in the MR-Linac using Deep learning Real-time tumour localization with single x-ray projection at arbitrary gantry angle using deep learning Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization Generation of synthetic CT images for MRI-only proton therapy treatment planning using deep learning Highlight talk: Deep Learning Model for Markerless Tracking in Spinal SBRT Using Deep Learning Algorithm to Extract Tumour Information from Pathology and Surgical Notes of Chondrosarcoma Patients Improving accuracy and robustness of deep convolutional neural network based thoracic OAR segmentation by training with data from local institution Three-Dimensional Dose Prediction for Lung IMRT Patients with Variable Beam Configuration using Deep Neural Networks CBCT image correction with a Unet trained on 2D slices and 3D patches Highlight talk: Fast automated IMRT optimization using deep-learned dose from a 2.5D generative adversarial network P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy P046: Improving proton dose calculation accuracy using deep learning P003: Deep learning-based reconstruction-aware sinogram denoising for low dose CT P074: Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme P084: Clinical evaluation of deep learning methods for brain tumor contouring P008: Automated lung tumour detection in colour fluoroscopic images based on a deep learning for real-time tumour tracking radiotherapy P042: Dermatology Level Dermoscopy Skin Cancer Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) Algorithm P022: Study of machine learning application for Tomotherapy Delivery Quality Assurance: evaluation of plan machine performances P007: Segmentation of bones for radiation therapy from medical dual-energy computed tomography volumes using the 3D U-Net P089: Automatic thoracic OAR segmentation from CT scans using patient-specific deep convolutional neural networks P081: Deep Learning, Medical Physics and Cargo Cult Science. P001: Deep learning for error detection in EPID dosimetry: A proof of concept
Deep Neural Network	Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization
Deep Neural Networks	FAIR-Radiomics Infrastructure
deep reinforcement learning	Intelligent Parameter Tuning for Iterative CT Reconstruction Via Quality-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning P002: Virtual Treatment Planner for Radiation Therapy via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Deep-learning	Sigmoid Segmentation via a Human-Like Deep Learning Approach Deep-learning based Automatic Digitization of Interstitial Needles in High Dose-rate Brachytherapy
Deep-mining	P105: Deep-Mining lncRNA transcriptomics of breast cancer by TCGA RNA-Seq data
Deformable Image Registration	Articulated Skeleton Model Meets Iterative Registration Process to Reliably Detect Posture Changes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients Deformable Image Registration using Structure Guidance for Dose Accumulation P071: Current status of the clinical use, commissioning and QA of Deformable Image Registration in UK radiotherapy centres P086: Head and Neck Deformable Registration by Physical Modeling of Patient Posture Change P094: An automated, quantitative and patient specific quality assurance tool for evaluation of deformable image registration in clinical head and neck cases
Deformation	Probabilistic optimization of the percentile dosage for cervix patients
Deformation vector field	U-net based deformation vector field estimation for motion-compensated 4D-CBCT reconstruction
Delineation Variability	P069: Quantifying the Impact of Organ-At-Risk Delineation Variability in the Context of Patient Setup Uncertainty
Delivered dose	P064: Evaluation of analysis methods for dose monitoring in patients undergoing prostate radiotherapy
Delivery Quality Assurance	P022: Study of machine learning application for Tomotherapy Delivery Quality Assurance: evaluation of plan machine performances P049: Implementation of an independent three dimensional dose calculation to streamline Tomotherapy delivery verification using on board exit detector
Dental application	P030: JAWS3D – A 3D dose visualization software for dental application
Dental artifact detection	P037: Radiomics-based random forest classifier for detecting dental artifacts in CT
Dermoscopy	P042: Dermatology Level Dermoscopy Skin Cancer Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) Algorithm
detection	MCMA Rising Stars 4: Cherenkov emission-based dosimetry: Detection angle and aperture study
detector response	Experimental benchmarking of Monte Carlo based detector response simulations in magnetic fields
Development practice	P107: Improving development practice for creating and maintaining clinical, in-house developed software tools.
dgn	Geant4 Monte Carlo calculation of normalized glandular dose coefficients in mammography
diagnosis of stomach cancer	A Monte Carlo study for diagnosis of the stomach cancer based on the reactions of the thermal neutron capture γ-ray emission
DICOM	FAIR-Radiomics Infrastructure P047: A neural network based approach to structure QA P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories P109: Audit Data Tool for the DcmCollab Dose Plan Bank
DICOM RT Plan creation	Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
DICOM-RT	DICOM-RT Ion interface to utilize Monte Carlo simulations in routine clinical workflow for proton pencil beam radiotherapy
Diffeomorphic image registration	Predicting inter-fractional anatomical change in head and neck cancer patients using diffeomorphic image registration
diffusing alpha-emitter radiation therapy (DaRT)	P163: A Monte Carlo study on the possibility of using bremsstrahlung and gamma emissions to determine seed positions in diffusing alpha-emitter radiation therapy using a gamma camera
Digital phantom	P153: Monte Carlo simulation of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography for texture analysis
Digitization	Deep-learning based Automatic Digitization of Interstitial Needles in High Dose-rate Brachytherapy
direct aperture optimization	Integrating DVH criteria into a column generation algorithm for VMAT
Distant failure	Predicting distant failure after radiotherapy in cervix cancer via automated multi-objective model
Distributed Computing	P113: The Functional Paradigm in RT Computing: Features & Realization
distributed learning	Modern mapping of local data for international distributed learning P034: “Distributed Radiomics” - a signature validation study using a Personal Health Train infrastructure
Distributed Training	Highlight talk: Using Federated Data Sources and Varian Learning Portal Framework to Train Neural Network for Automatic Organ Segmentation
distributed-learning	P036: Radiomics model of overall survival from non-small lung cancer using a distributed learning platform
DNA damage	A parameter study of chemistry simulation for DNA damage after proton irradiation with TOPAS-nBio Modeling of chromosome aberrations after combined exposure to X-rays and alpha particles
DNA damage repair	MCMA Rising Stars 5: Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio
DNA double strand breaks	MCMA Rising Stars 5: Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio
doctor-patient relationship	P025: Filoblu: Sentiment Analysis Application to Doctor-Patient Interactions
Domiciliary care for oncologic patients	P025: Filoblu: Sentiment Analysis Application to Doctor-Patient Interactions
Dose	P061: An Ideal Planning Assistant Application for Guidance in Radiation Treatment Planning
Dose Accumulation	Deformable Image Registration using Structure Guidance for Dose Accumulation
dose calculation	Varian Dose Distribution Distance Metric: an improved gamma-analysis metric for comparing dose distributions Development report for the open source dose calculation and optimization toolkit matRad Verification of clinical radiotherapy treatment plans with Monte Carlo calculations: Vancouver Island Centre experience P158: Dose perturbation effect of titanium cranial implants in proton beam therapy. P116: Radiotherapy Dose calculation in Oesophageal Cancer: Comparison of Analytical and Monte Carlo Methods P132: An automated computer assisted beam modelling tool for scanned proton beam therapy
Dose calculation accuracy	P074: Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme
Dose Calculation Algorithm	MCMA Rising Stars 6: Anatomical changes vs. calculation approximations: Which causes larger dose distortions for proton therapy patients?
Dose conversion	P074: Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme
Dose distribution	Fully automated treatment planning of deliverable VMAT by machine learning dose prediction and mimicking optimization in HNC
Dose distribution computation	P056: Computing IMRT dose distributions using artificial intelligence
Dose enhancement	P127: Monte Carlo study on the effect of gold compounds in radiotherapy P148: Microdosimetric study of nanoparticles-enhancend radiotherapies with Geant4-DNA.
dose evaluation system	P135: Development of a TOPAS-based independent dose assessment system for pencil beam scanning in proton therapy
Dose Mass Histogram	P136: Investigating the accuracy of Monte Carlo based treatment planning of lung patients
Dose metric	Varian Dose Distribution Distance Metric: an improved gamma-analysis metric for comparing dose distributions
Dose mimicking	ICCR Rising Stars 4: The importance of evaluating the complete knowledge-based automated planning pipeline
Dose monitoring	P064: Evaluation of analysis methods for dose monitoring in patients undergoing prostate radiotherapy
Dose plan bank	P109: Audit Data Tool for the DcmCollab Dose Plan Bank
Dose prediciton	P046: Improving proton dose calculation accuracy using deep learning
Dose Prediction	Deep learning based 3D dose prediction with a self-evolving training dataset Radiotherapy Dose Prediction with Physician Desired Trade-offs Inverse Planning without Optimization Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy
Dose profiles	Testing the effect of linac drift on QA protocols with a multi-energy MC simulation
Dose quantification	Varian Dose Distribution Distance Metric: an improved gamma-analysis metric for comparing dose distributions
dose rate	Towards FLASH proton therapy: Exploring dose rate distributions for different treatment plan and PBS machine characteristics
dose reconstruction	In silico validation of motion-including dose reconstruction for MR-guided lung SBRT using a patient specific motion model P096: Experimental validation of an MLC tracking treatment simulator with dose reconstruction
Dose verification	P023: From research to treatment: how powerful, complex algorithms become a comprehensive clinical application for proton therapy P049: Implementation of an independent three dimensional dose calculation to streamline Tomotherapy delivery verification using on board exit detector P120: Integration of the M6 Cyberknife in the Moderato Monte Carlo platform and prediction of beam parameters using machine learning P133: Systematic Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans for TrueBeam linac using PRIMO
Dose Volume Histogram	P101: Development of indigenous tool for analysis of large dataset of dose volume histograms P136: Investigating the accuracy of Monte Carlo based treatment planning of lung patients
Dose-average LET	A novel Geant4-DNA application for microdosimetry and dose-average LET calculations of protons in liquid in water.
dose-length parameters	Exploring the Relationship of Radiation Dose Exposed to the Length of Esophagus and Weight Loss in Patients with NSCLC
dose-volume criteria	Integrating DVH criteria into a column generation algorithm for VMAT
Dose-volumetric analysis	P045: Evaluation of the MR image-driven synthetic CT in prostate IMRT plans
Dosimetric analysis	Quantifying parotid compartment importance for post-radiotherapy function
Dosimetric Index	P076: A mathematical optimization framework for spatial adjustments of dose distributions in high dose-rate brachytherapy
Dosimetric indices	P111: Data pipelines in radiation oncology: lessons from software engineering
Dosimetric Variability	P069: Quantifying the Impact of Organ-At-Risk Delineation Variability in the Context of Patient Setup Uncertainty
Dosimetrical parameters	P143: Comparison of dosimetric and radiobiological parameters on the different VMAT techniques for left-sided breast cancer
dosimetry	Investigation of small-cavity chamber response in the presence of magnetic fields Sensitivity of Monte Carlo calculated kQ factors to ionization chamber details Development and association of new metrics of dose and image quality for optimizing protocols in CT imaging Experimental benchmarking of Monte Carlo based detector response simulations in magnetic fields Large-scale dosimetric comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo recalculated doses for lung robotic SBRT plan Machine learning and the glandular dose estimation on homogeneous breasts in mammography MCMA Rising Stars 4: Cherenkov emission-based dosimetry: Detection angle and aperture study Dynamic model-based dosimetry of permanent implant brachytherapy Simulations of a collimated photon beam for minibeam radiotherapy Monte Carlo modelling of orthovoltage irradiators for radiobiology research – the impact of insufficient backscatter material P062: Automated characterisation of continuous portal imaging of radiotherapy FFF beams for SBRT verification P117: Synthesis and modelling the effects of dose deposition of the palladium core and gold shell nanoparticle for brachytherapy P127: Monte Carlo study on the effect of gold compounds in radiotherapy P121: Optimization of target thickness on angular dose distributions of a truncated conical-shaped transmission type X-ray tube: A Monte Carlo simulation P130: Monte Carlo dosimetry for brachytherapy of cervical cancer
Dual energy CT	P044: A Novel Method of Calibration for Improving Accuracy and Sensitivity in Dual Energy Computed Tomography Perfusion
Dual-energy computed tomography	The potential of photon-counting CT for quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging in radiotherapy using a maximum a posteriori estimator P007: Segmentation of bones for radiation therapy from medical dual-energy computed tomography volumes using the 3D U-Net
Dual-energy CT	MCMA Rising Stars 1: Monte Carlo evaluation of proton range uncertainties using photon-counting CT
DVH	P061: An Ideal Planning Assistant Application for Guidance in Radiation Treatment Planning P111: Data pipelines in radiation oncology: lessons from software engineering
DVH analysis	P101: Development of indigenous tool for analysis of large dataset of dose volume histograms
dynalog	P108: A Method for Serving Linac Log File Data On-Demand for Analysis Using a GraphQL Application Programming Interface
dynamic MRI	P072: 4D CT co-synchronized to real-time dynamic MRI acquired in the treatment room
Dynamic trajectory	P011: Evaluation of potential dosimetric benefits for dynamic trajectory radiotherapy compared to VMAT
dysphagia	Voxel dose pattern for dysphagia among head and neck cancer patients receiving definitive radiotherapy
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Eclipse	P015: Collision Detection of the Versa HD for ESAPI using Bullet Physics
EGS5	P125: Comparison of simulations by EGS5 and PENELOPE 2014 P139: Parallel Monte Carlo implementation of EGS5 with MPI (EGS5-MPI) for large-scale radiation transport simulation
egs_brachy	Update of the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) TG-43 parameter database for brachytherapy
EGSnrc	Extending EGSnrc with a Sum Over Paths Algorithm for Simulations of X-ray Grating Interferometry Modules
electromagnetic showers	Ines: a portable and parallel Monte-Carlo simulation code of class II for electromagnetic showers
electron beam	Measurement and simulation of clinical electron beams in magnetic fields: considerations for MR-guided electron beam therapy
electron termination	A Monte Carlo study of the impact of phantom electron termination on EPID image quality and simulation time
electronic brachytherapy	Effect of spherical applicator size on delivered dose during INTRABEAM intraoperative radiotherapy Monte Carlo calculation of the TG-43 dosimetry parameters for the INTRABEAM electronic brachytherapy source
electronic brachytherapy x-ray source	P121: Optimization of target thickness on angular dose distributions of a truncated conical-shaped transmission type X-ray tube: A Monte Carlo simulation
Elekta Versa HD	P015: Collision Detection of the Versa HD for ESAPI using Bullet Physics
emission-guided radiotherapy	P091: Line of Response (LOR)-based real-time tumor tracking for emission-guided radiotherapy
energy	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry
energy deposition	P125: Comparison of simulations by EGS5 and PENELOPE 2014
EPI	QaTest: a fully automatized EPI analysis software for continuous quality assurance
EPID	A new EPID based adaptive radiotherapy method for predicting patient susceptibility to having gases Fast simulation of megavoltage images using multi-layered detector model A Monte Carlo study of the impact of phantom electron termination on EPID image quality and simulation time P090: Optimization of an unsupervised patient classification system from daily EPID images P062: Automated characterisation of continuous portal imaging of radiotherapy FFF beams for SBRT verification P029: Obtaining real-time EPID-image based error detection thresholds via supervised learning. P040: Patient Specific Quality Assurance (QA): Case of Cervical Cancer using Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) and Matrix P051: Quality assurance based on portal imaging using artificial neural network methods for Varian and Elekta linacs P147: A fast method for image simulation of electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs)
EPID based in vivo dosimetry	P021: Validation of forward projected EPID transit dosimetry for In Vivo dosimetry in an automated workflow & evaluation of initial patient data
EPID dosimetry	Attenuation and scatter correction of portal images in the MR-Linac using Deep learning P001: Deep learning for error detection in EPID dosimetry: A proof of concept
epoxy resin	Simulations for the improvement of bone-equivalent materials for proton beam dosimetry
ESAPI	P015: Collision Detection of the Versa HD for ESAPI using Bullet Physics
esophageal cancer	P102: A Prediction Model Incorporating PET Radiomics for Lymph Node Metastases in Esophageal Cancer Patients
ETL	P111: Data pipelines in radiation oncology: lessons from software engineering
Evaluation	P080: Evaluation of Synthesized Computed Tomography (sCT) Generated from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) by Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN)
Evaluation of automatic segmentation	P082: Quantitative versus qualitative evaluation of automatic segmentation
Evidential reasoning	Predicting distant failure after radiotherapy in cervix cancer via automated multi-objective model
Evolutionary algorithms	GPU parallelization of catheter position optimization for HDR prostate brachytherapy
Excitation	Modelling ionization and excitation cross sections of proton interaction with liquid water in Geant4-DNA above 100 MeV
expectation value	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
External radiotherapy	P051: Quality assurance based on portal imaging using artificial neural network methods for Varian and Elekta linacs
Eye lens	P150: Determination of absorbed dose in eye lens and thyroid in thorax computed tomography studies
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FAIR	FAIR-Radiomics Infrastructure
Fan-beam collimator	P152: Monte Carlo Based Determination of Radiation Scattering Effect on Image Quality in Brain Imaging with Fan-beam Collimator
Fano cavity test	MCMA Rising Stars 3: Towards multiscale simulations with EGSnrc: tests on cellular length scales
fano test	Experimental benchmarking of Monte Carlo based detector response simulations in magnetic fields
Fast	P138: The coupled photon/electron Monte Carlo transport code in the RayStation treatment planning system
Fast Dose Calculation	Fast dose Recalculation on GPU (FRoG) at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center
Fast Monte Carlo	Fast simulation of megavoltage images using multi-layered detector model
fast simulation	P147: A fast method for image simulation of electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs)
FDG PET	A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information
Feature extraction	P038: Validation of a Radiomic Feature Extraction Module in DICOMautomaton
Feature stability	ICCR Rising Stars 6: Optimising methodology for 4DCT radiomic feature extraction to predict distant failure in NSCLC patients treated with SBRT
Federated Data Sources	Highlight talk: Using Federated Data Sources and Varian Learning Portal Framework to Train Neural Network for Automatic Organ Segmentation
FHIR	FHIR-ifying Radiotherapy Data: Towards data driven Radiation Oncology P068: A Clinical Data Model in Oncology to Enable Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services within 360 Oncology
fibrosis	Objective CT-based imaging biomarkers to quantify the evolution of radiation-induced lung damage P099: Comparison of automated and pathologist assessment of radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis for Masson’s trichrome P100: Comparing the efficacy of SBRT and IMRT in reducing radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis
FIDAO	A fast inverse direct aperture optimization algorithm for volume-modulated arc therapy
FIDO	A fast inverse direct aperture optimization algorithm for volume-modulated arc therapy
Film Dosimetry	P119: Investigation of energy dependence of different layers of RTQA2 film over EBT2 film using Monte Carlo simulation
First CT scanner	Highlight talk: Restoring a Data General Nova computer used in the first CT scanner
FLASH	Towards FLASH proton therapy: Exploring dose rate distributions for different treatment plan and PBS machine characteristics
Fluence Map Optimization	Inverse Planning without Optimization
fluence spectrum	P125: Comparison of simulations by EGS5 and PENELOPE 2014
FLUKA Monte Carlo Code	P126: Radiation shielding competence of WO3-MoO3-TeO2 glasses through Monte Carlo simulation
FLUKA simulation	P155: FLUKA simulation of target fragmentation in Protontherapy
focal therapy	P067: Detection and characterisation of prostate cancer from multiparametric MRI using machine learning techniques for focal radiotherapy
foci	Modeling of time and spatial evolution of cell nuclear foci induced by mixed radiation (X and alpha)
forced detection technique	Investigation of keel versus knife edge pinhole profiles for a next-generation SPECT system dedicated to clinical brain imaging
forward projection transit dosimetry	P021: Validation of forward projected EPID transit dosimetry for In Vivo dosimetry in an automated workflow & evaluation of initial patient data
Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy	P092: Measuring Registration and Motion Uncertainties in Brain Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Patients Treated on a 3DOF vs a 6DOF Couch: Does a New 6DOF Couch Justify Zero PTV Margins?
Frailty	Transfer Learning for Sarcopenia Segmentation
free and open-source software (FOSS)	P043: Harnessing the potential of data in clinical PACS with an open-source DICOM server
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Gafchromic Film	P119: Investigation of energy dependence of different layers of RTQA2 film over EBT2 film using Monte Carlo simulation
Gamma Absorption	P124: Investigating and measuring the effect of nano diamond on radiation shields
Gamma analysis	P009: Evaluation of the modulation degrees in APBI IMRT plans
gamma camera	P163: A Monte Carlo study on the possibility of using bremsstrahlung and gamma emissions to determine seed positions in diffusing alpha-emitter radiation therapy using a gamma camera
Gamma error	Varian Dose Distribution Distance Metric: an improved gamma-analysis metric for comparing dose distributions
Gamma index	Varian Dose Distribution Distance Metric: an improved gamma-analysis metric for comparing dose distributions
Gamma-ray interactions	P126: Radiation shielding competence of WO3-MoO3-TeO2 glasses through Monte Carlo simulation
GAMOS	P157: Proposal to reduce the effect of the nuclear cross sections in the imprecission of the PET protontherapy range verification
GAN structure	Generation of synthetic CT images for MRI-only proton therapy treatment planning using deep learning
gas	A new EPID based adaptive radiotherapy method for predicting patient susceptibility to having gases
gastrointestinal	P093: Assessment of non-respiratory abdominal displacements using breathing-compensated 4D imaging of the gastrointestinal tract
GATE	P160: Physics-based scatter correction for quantitative PET imaging of hypoxia P149: Monte Carlo Calculations of Absorbed Doses Associated to Helical CT
GATE Monte Carlo	Modeling SPECT auto-contouring acquisition for 177Lu Molecular RadioTherapy (MRT) using new developments in GATE/ GEANT4
GATE simulation study	Investigation of keel versus knife edge pinhole profiles for a next-generation SPECT system dedicated to clinical brain imaging
GBM	Hand-Crafted Radiomic Features Predict GBM Patient-Specific Survival
geant 4	Simulations of a collimated photon beam for minibeam radiotherapy
Geant4	A microdosimetric analysis of the interactions of mono-energetic neutrons with human tissue Relative Biological Effectiveness evaluation at CATANA protontherapy ocular beamline: experiments and Monte Carlo simulation Breast cancer rotational radiotherapy with a kilovoltage x-ray source: validated Monte Carlo phantom studies Dosimetry to guide the preclinical studies in Minibeam Radiation Therapy at a conventional irradiator: tools and an in vivo proof of concept. Comparing measured and simulated prompt gamma cross-section data for carbon target using AFRODITE clover detector system Improvement of ParticleHP with proton-boron fusion reaction in GEANT4 for medical applications Electron track structure simulations in a gold nanoparticle using Geant4-DNA G4_Med: a Geant4 benchmarking and regression testing suite for medical physics applications in the Geant-val environment Validation of Geant4 fragmentation models for therapeutic 4He ion beams P157: Proposal to reduce the effect of the nuclear cross sections in the imprecission of the PET protontherapy range verification P127: Monte Carlo study on the effect of gold compounds in radiotherapy P124: Investigating and measuring the effect of nano diamond on radiation shields P123: Status of the GEANT4 Advanced Examples for medical physics applications P148: Microdosimetric study of nanoparticles-enhancend radiotherapies with Geant4-DNA. P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
Geant4-DNA	A microdosimetric analysis of the interactions of mono-energetic neutrons with human tissue Modelling ionization and excitation cross sections of proton interaction with liquid water in Geant4-DNA above 100 MeV A novel Geant4-DNA application for microdosimetry and dose-average LET calculations of protons in liquid in water. Simulation of micro- nanodosimetry spectra and free radicals with Geant4-DNA, LQD, PHYCHEML, CHEM for ion beams Electron track structure simulations in a gold nanoparticle using Geant4-DNA P148: Microdosimetric study of nanoparticles-enhancend radiotherapies with Geant4-DNA.
Generative Adversarial Nets	GaGa: GAN for GATE
Generative adversarial network	Use of a 3D generative adversarial network to create synthetic-CT for MRI-based radiation therapy
Generative adversarial networks	ICCR Rising Stars 4: The importance of evaluating the complete knowledge-based automated planning pipeline
Genetic Algorithm	P070: Genetic Algorithms for optimal intermittent measurements for tumor tracking
Geometric accuracy	Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy
GNPs	MCMA Rising Stars 3: Towards multiscale simulations with EGSnrc: tests on cellular length scales
Gold foil	P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
gold nanoparticles	Electron track structure simulations in a gold nanoparticle using Geant4-DNA
GOS	Modelling ionization and excitation cross sections of proton interaction with liquid water in Geant4-DNA above 100 MeV
GPGPU	Fast dose Recalculation on GPU (FRoG) at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center
GPU	Validation of a GPU accelerated Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm for clinical use in brachytherapy Monte Carlo x-ray tube simulation for CBCT: A statistical analysis of the photon distribution components Simulated Annealing and quasi-Newton Algorithms on GPU Architecture for Multi-Criteria Optimization for HDR Brachytherapy GPU parallelization of catheter position optimization for HDR prostate brachytherapy P012: IMPT plan generation in under ten seconds P138: The coupled photon/electron Monte Carlo transport code in the RayStation treatment planning system
GPU Monte Carlo code	Validation of a GPU-based Monte Carlo internal dosimetry framework for 177Lu radionuclide therapy
GPU package	gPET: An efficient and accurate simulation tool for PET via GPU-based Monte Carlo
GPU programming	P026: Comparing two web platforms for uncertainty simulation of external beam radiotherapy
graphics processing unit	Development and applications of GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo code FRED for particle therapy
graphql	P108: A Method for Serving Linac Log File Data On-Demand for Analysis Using a GraphQL Application Programming Interface
Grating interferometry	Extending EGSnrc with a Sum Over Paths Algorithm for Simulations of X-ray Grating Interferometry Modules
gynecological cancer	AutoBrachy: an Automated Treatment Planning, Quality Assurance and Documentation System for High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy of Gynecological Cancer
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Hadron therapy	Validation of Geant4 fragmentation models for therapeutic 4He ion beams
Hadrontherapy	The BIANCA model and its application for RBE predictions along hadrontherapy beams Interfacing a nuclear interaction model (BLOB) with Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation of a micrometric dosimetry system based on the ALPIDE chip Simulation of micro- nanodosimetry spectra and free radicals with Geant4-DNA, LQD, PHYCHEML, CHEM for ion beams
HDR brachytherapy	Simulated Annealing and quasi-Newton Algorithms on GPU Architecture for Multi-Criteria Optimization for HDR Brachytherapy GPU parallelization of catheter position optimization for HDR prostate brachytherapy
HDR prostate brachytherapy	P059: Automated catheter reconstruction for TRUS HDR prostate brachytherapy
Head and neck	Deep learning based 3D dose prediction with a self-evolving training dataset CT-based Radiomics Predicting HPV Status in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma P086: Head and Neck Deformable Registration by Physical Modeling of Patient Posture Change
head and neck cancer	Articulated Skeleton Model Meets Iterative Registration Process to Reliably Detect Posture Changes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients Fully automated treatment planning of deliverable VMAT by machine learning dose prediction and mimicking optimization in HNC Automatic parameter tuning of an algorithm for fast automated Pareto-optimal treatment plan generation MCMA Rising Stars 6: Anatomical changes vs. calculation approximations: Which causes larger dose distortions for proton therapy patients?
head and neck cancers	Comparison of machine learning algorithms to predict lymph nodes in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma
Head and neck outcome prediction	ICCR Rising Stars 2: Generalized Feature Analysis for Radiotherapy Application to Head and Neck Outcome Predictions
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma	P041: Radiomics analysis of lymph nodes for prediction of extracapsular nodal extension from CT images in head and neck cancers
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas	P031: Mortality Risk Stratification Model based on Radiomic Features Only: Analysis of Public Open Access Head and Neck Cancer Data
Healthcare	P066: A rapid Learning model for cervical cancer
Heavy ion therapy	Validation of Geant4 fragmentation models for therapeutic 4He ion beams
Helium beam	Validation of Geant4 fragmentation models for therapeutic 4He ion beams
helium CT	P115: Statistical limitations in particle imaging
high dose rate brachytherapy	P002: Virtual Treatment Planner for Radiation Therapy via Deep Reinforcement Learning
High Dose-Rate Brachytherapy	Deep-learning based Automatic Digitization of Interstitial Needles in High Dose-rate Brachytherapy P076: A mathematical optimization framework for spatial adjustments of dose distributions in high dose-rate brachytherapy
histology	P099: Comparison of automated and pathologist assessment of radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis for Masson’s trichrome
Historical computer restoration	Highlight talk: Restoring a Data General Nova computer used in the first CT scanner
Hot Spots	P076: A mathematical optimization framework for spatial adjustments of dose distributions in high dose-rate brachytherapy
HOTAIRM1	P105: Deep-Mining lncRNA transcriptomics of breast cancer by TCGA RNA-Seq data
HPV+ Oropharyngeal Carcinoma	P065: Modeling the design and application of non-inferiority trials in radiotherapy
HU correction	Generating Synthesized Computed Tomography (CT) from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) for Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Human Papilloma Virus	Radiomics analysis for classification of head and neck cancers human papilloma virus status
human papillomavirus	CT-based Radiomics Predicting HPV Status in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Hybrid IMRT	P140: A Hybrid IMRT Technique for Treatment of Breast Cancer: A Dosimetric Study
Hybrid Method	P202: Hybrid Approach to Estimate Patient Multiply Scattered Energy Fluence into an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) P154: A hybrid method calculating linear energy transfer for intensity modulated proton therapy
hyperthermia	A systems oncology simulation framework for modelling 3D tumour spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia treatments
Hypoxia	P160: Physics-based scatter correction for quantitative PET imaging of hypoxia
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IAEA-AAPM TRS483	IAEA-AAPM TRS483 based reference dosimetry for the new biology guided radiotherapy system
IGRT	Monte Carlo-based software for imaging dose calculations in IGRT P145: Development of kV X-ray imaging dose calculation system for image guided radiation therapy
ILS	P016: How VHA’s Radiotherapy Incident Reporting and Analysis System (RIRAS) is making an impact on the quality and safety of radiotherapy?
Image analysis	Respiratory motion model derived from CBCT projection data P032: Bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scales in medical imaging with textural analysis – a biological basis for CT radiomics classifiers? P054: Robust picket fence quantification P094: An automated, quantitative and patient specific quality assurance tool for evaluation of deformable image registration in clinical head and neck cases
image guided radiotherapy	Highlight talk: Clinical application of big data research: Towards a practical implementation of rapid learning for radiotherapy optimization P072: 4D CT co-synchronized to real-time dynamic MRI acquired in the treatment room
Image processing	Multiparametric MRI assessment of gross tumour volume and hippocampal changes over the course of brain cancer radiotherapy
Image quality	Evaluation of antiscatter grid performance in pediatric patients via Monte Carlo Simulation Development and association of new metrics of dose and image quality for optimizing protocols in CT imaging P152: Monte Carlo Based Determination of Radiation Scattering Effect on Image Quality in Brain Imaging with Fan-beam Collimator
Image quality assessment	P045: Evaluation of the MR image-driven synthetic CT in prostate IMRT plans
image reconstruction	Dose calculation on upright cone beam CT
Image Registration	Respiratory motion model derived from CBCT projection data P092: Measuring Registration and Motion Uncertainties in Brain Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Patients Treated on a 3DOF vs a 6DOF Couch: Does a New 6DOF Couch Justify Zero PTV Margins?
Image Segmentation	Transfer Learning for Sarcopenia Segmentation
image-guided adaptive brachytherapy	P144: Development of Volumetric Independent Dose Calculation System for Adaptive Brachytherapy
Imaging	Development and association of new metrics of dose and image quality for optimizing protocols in CT imaging Fast simulation of megavoltage images using multi-layered detector model P035: Learning from scanners: noise reduction and feature correction in Radiomics
Imaging Biomarkers	Transfer Learning for Sarcopenia Segmentation
Imaging Dose	P145: Development of kV X-ray imaging dose calculation system for image guided radiation therapy
imaging informatics	P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories
imaging system design	The TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation: A flexible tool for Monte Carlo particle transport simulations
Imbalanced Data	Adapting classifiers to work with imbalanced data in machine learning
IMBT	Monte Carlo Dosimetry Study of Novel Rotating MRI-Compatible Shielded Tandems for Intensity Modulated Cervix Brachytherapy
implementation	CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models
IMPT	Towards FLASH proton therapy: Exploring dose rate distributions for different treatment plan and PBS machine characteristics
Impulse approximation	Quantifying differences between theoretical models in calculations of Compton mass energy-transfer coefficients
IMRT	Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy Treatment Planning and Delivery Verification for Pulsed Low Dose Rate Radiotherapy Automatic parameter tuning of an algorithm for fast automated Pareto-optimal treatment plan generation Highlight talk: Fast automated IMRT optimization using deep-learned dose from a 2.5D generative adversarial network P002: Virtual Treatment Planner for Radiation Therapy via Deep Reinforcement Learning P100: Comparing the efficacy of SBRT and IMRT in reducing radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis P140: A Hybrid IMRT Technique for Treatment of Breast Cancer: A Dosimetric Study
IMRT ArcTherapy	P050: IMRT quality analysis based on machine learning technique and complexity indices
IMRT QA	Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
in vivo	A new EPID based adaptive radiotherapy method for predicting patient susceptibility to having gases
Incident Learning System	Highlight talk: On the development of an AI based Incident Learning Framework for Clinical Workflow P016: How VHA’s Radiotherapy Incident Reporting and Analysis System (RIRAS) is making an impact on the quality and safety of radiotherapy?
independence dose calculation system	P144: Development of Volumetric Independent Dose Calculation System for Adaptive Brachytherapy
Independent dose calculation	DICOM-RT Ion interface to utilize Monte Carlo simulations in routine clinical workflow for proton pencil beam radiotherapy Cloud based Monte Carlo independent dose calculation tool for Varian Linacs Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
Induced Cancer	P142: Assessment of radiation-induced second cancer risks in radiated organs after (3D-CRT) radiotherapy in breast cancer using (by) BEIR VII radiobiological model
Ines	Implementation of pseudo-deterministic transport in a Monte Carlo code for out of field dose calculation
Influence Diagram	P065: Modeling the design and application of non-inferiority trials in radiotherapy
Informatics	CorTx-RT: Service Oriented Architecture for Radiation Oncology Informatics
information extraction	Rule-based pattern matching and text extraction from radiotherapy clinical notes: is there a match?
Information systems	P106: Implementation of the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System at CHUM - Going Paperless and Smart
Inhomogeneity	P074: Improving treatment plan dose accuracy using a deep learning-based dose conversion scheme
Intensity modulated brachytherapy	Monte Carlo dosimetry of a custom-made 169Yb source for intensity modulated brachytherapy Monte Carlo Dosimetry Study of Novel Rotating MRI-Compatible Shielded Tandems for Intensity Modulated Cervix Brachytherapy
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy	Automated Treatment Planning using Expedited Constrained Hierarchical Optimization: Plan quality and performance enhancements Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization A Quantum Inspired Algorithm for Radiotherapy Planning Optimization P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy
Intensity modulation	P011: Evaluation of potential dosimetric benefits for dynamic trajectory radiotherapy compared to VMAT
Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy	MCMA Rising Stars 6: Anatomical changes vs. calculation approximations: Which causes larger dose distortions for proton therapy patients? P012: IMPT plan generation in under ten seconds
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy	A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization P009: Evaluation of the modulation degrees in APBI IMRT plans
intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)	Intensity Modulated Small Animal Radiotherapy Treatment Planning using a Movable Rectangular Collimator
Interference	Extending EGSnrc with a Sum Over Paths Algorithm for Simulations of X-ray Grating Interferometry Modules
interior point method	Linear optimization can efficiently determine optimal radiation therapy plans
Intermittent Kalman Prediction	P070: Genetic Algorithms for optimal intermittent measurements for tumor tracking
interoperability	Health Information Gateway and Exchange (HINGE): Realizing the potential of Big data in Radiation Oncology P068: A Clinical Data Model in Oncology to Enable Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services within 360 Oncology
Interstitial Needle	Deep-learning based Automatic Digitization of Interstitial Needles in High Dose-rate Brachytherapy
Interventional Cardiology	Development and Validation of Online Personal Dosimetry Application Using Computational Method for Interventional Cardiology
Interventional procedure	P137: Design of Variable collimator systems for patient safety in Interventional procedure
intrafraction motion	In silico validation of motion-including dose reconstruction for MR-guided lung SBRT using a patient specific motion model
intraoperative radiotherapy	Effect of spherical applicator size on delivered dose during INTRABEAM intraoperative radiotherapy
intrinsic energy response	MCMA Rising Stars 2: Intrinsic energy response of microDiamond detectors at kilovoltage energy photon beams
Inverse IMRT planning	P077: Multi-criterial MLC segmentation to minimize plan quality loss
inverse planning	Linear optimization can efficiently determine optimal radiation therapy plans Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
Inverse treatment planning	A full Monte Carlo inverse planning algorithm for trajectory-based VMAT with simultaneous couch and gantry rotation
Iodine	The potential of photon-counting CT for quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging in radiotherapy using a maximum a posteriori estimator P044: A Novel Method of Calibration for Improving Accuracy and Sensitivity in Dual Energy Computed Tomography Perfusion
IOERT	P118: In-Field Photon and Neutron Contamination during Intraoperative Electron Radiotherapy: A Monte Carlo Study
Ion beam therapy	MCMA Rising Stars 7: Benchmarking a GATE/Geant4 Monte Carlo model to support treatment planning towards MRI guided ion beam therapy
Ion-therapy	Preliminary results in using Deep Learning to emulate BLOB, a nuclear interaction model Interfacing a nuclear interaction model (BLOB) with Geant4
Ionization	Modelling ionization and excitation cross sections of proton interaction with liquid water in Geant4-DNA above 100 MeV
ionization chamber	Sensitivity of Monte Carlo calculated kQ factors to ionization chamber details Radial response function of a parallel plate ionization chamber studied using EGSnrc software
ionization cluster size distribution	First experimental demonstration of ion-therapy planning that combines a clinical biological model with ionization detail
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Jacobian	Quantification of Local Metabolic Tumor Volume Changes by Registering Blended 18F-FDG PET-CT Images
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keel and knife edge pinhole collimation	Investigation of keel versus knife edge pinhole profiles for a next-generation SPECT system dedicated to clinical brain imaging
Kilovoltage dosimetry	Monte Carlo determination of chamber correction factors for medium energy X-ray beams between 50 and 300 kV
Knowledge-based automated planning	ICCR Rising Stars 4: The importance of evaluating the complete knowledge-based automated planning pipeline
knowledge-based planning	ICCR Rising Stars 4: The importance of evaluating the complete knowledge-based automated planning pipeline The impact of widespread clinical adoption of knowledge-based planning on treatment plan quality and variability
knowledge-based predictive tool	QaTest: a fully automatized EPI analysis software for continuous quality assurance
kQ	Sensitivity of Monte Carlo calculated kQ factors to ionization chamber details
kV dosimetry	Effect of spherical applicator size on delivered dose during INTRABEAM intraoperative radiotherapy Monte Carlo calculation of the TG-43 dosimetry parameters for the INTRABEAM electronic brachytherapy source
kV imaging	Monte Carlo-based software for imaging dose calculations in IGRT
kV-EBRT	Breast cancer rotational radiotherapy with a kilovoltage x-ray source: validated Monte Carlo phantom studies
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LDR	P117: Synthesis and modelling the effects of dose deposition of the palladium core and gold shell nanoparticle for brachytherapy
learning health system	Highlight talk: Clinical application of big data research: Towards a practical implementation of rapid learning for radiotherapy optimization
Left sided breast cancer	P143: Comparison of dosimetric and radiobiological parameters on the different VMAT techniques for left-sided breast cancer
Legacy	P024: Dealing with large scale legacy code in a critical clinical infrastructure
LET	First experimental demonstration of ion-therapy planning that combines a clinical biological model with ionization detail
LIAC12	P118: In-Field Photon and Neutron Contamination during Intraoperative Electron Radiotherapy: A Monte Carlo Study
Linac	Cloud based Monte Carlo independent dose calculation tool for Varian Linacs GaGa: GAN for GATE
line of response (LOR)	P091: Line of Response (LOR)-based real-time tumor tracking for emission-guided radiotherapy
lineal	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry
Linear Energy Transfer	Relative Biological Effectiveness evaluation at CATANA protontherapy ocular beamline: experiments and Monte Carlo simulation P154: A hybrid method calculating linear energy transfer for intensity modulated proton therapy
linear optimization	Linear optimization can efficiently determine optimal radiation therapy plans
Linear Quadratic model	Fractionation considerations in jointly optimized photon–carbon ion treatment plans
lncRNA transcriptomics	P105: Deep-Mining lncRNA transcriptomics of breast cancer by TCGA RNA-Seq data
Log files	A Novel Automated Clinical Proton Therapy Patient Quality Assurance via Monte Carlo Simulations and Treatment Log Files Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
logistic regression	Modeling of acute rectal toxicity to compare two patient positioning methods for prostate cancer radiotherapy. Can toxicity modeling be used for quality assurance?
Low dose CT reconstruction	P003: Deep learning-based reconstruction-aware sinogram denoising for low dose CT
Low energy	Monte Carlo track structure simulation study of the effect of radiation on neurons and their glial cells
lung	Objective CT-based imaging biomarkers to quantify the evolution of radiation-induced lung damage P099: Comparison of automated and pathologist assessment of radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis for Masson’s trichrome P100: Comparing the efficacy of SBRT and IMRT in reducing radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis
lung cancer	Radial radiomics: do higher pixel values outside the GTV predict for worse survival in early stage lung cancer Prognostication of vascular calcification identified in 4DCT of lung cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions Large-scale dosimetric comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo recalculated doses for lung robotic SBRT plan ICCR Rising Stars 6: Optimising methodology for 4DCT radiomic feature extraction to predict distant failure in NSCLC patients treated with SBRT Quantification of Pulmonary Nodule Spiculation Using Angle-Preserving Spherical Conformal Parameterization P036: Radiomics model of overall survival from non-small lung cancer using a distributed learning platform P098: High doses to the heart affect overall survival in stage III lung cancer patients treated with conventionally fractionated radiation therapy.
lung IMRT	Three-Dimensional Dose Prediction for Lung IMRT Patients with Variable Beam Configuration using Deep Neural Networks
lung tumour	P008: Automated lung tumour detection in colour fluoroscopic images based on a deep learning for real-time tumour tracking radiotherapy
lymph node metastasis	P102: A Prediction Model Incorporating PET Radiomics for Lymph Node Metastases in Esophageal Cancer Patients
Lymphocytes	ICCR Rising Stars 3: Modeling Radiation Dose to Circulating Lymphocytes for different radiotherapy modalities
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machine learning	Minimizing lymphocyte loss following radiation therapy treatments: machine learning approach A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information ICCR Rising Stars 4: The importance of evaluating the complete knowledge-based automated planning pipeline Comparison of machine learning algorithms to predict lymph nodes in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma Fully automated treatment planning of deliverable VMAT by machine learning dose prediction and mimicking optimization in HNC Transfer Learning for Sarcopenia Segmentation Voxel dose pattern for dysphagia among head and neck cancer patients receiving definitive radiotherapy Machine learning and the glandular dose estimation on homogeneous breasts in mammography Quantifying parotid compartment importance for post-radiotherapy function Highlight talk: Clinical application of big data research: Towards a practical implementation of rapid learning for radiotherapy optimization Machine learning helps identifying relations and potential biases in radiomics-based prediction models Understanding the influence of spatial radiation dose patterns on xerostomia: what they might be telling us. Radiomics-based decision-support system in renal cell carcinomas Adapting classifiers to work with imbalanced data in machine learning P050: IMRT quality analysis based on machine learning technique and complexity indices P103: Machine learning techniques in microdosimetry: application to energy deposition within cell populations P019: Implementation of machine learning models in clinical practice P067: Detection and characterisation of prostate cancer from multiparametric MRI using machine learning techniques for focal radiotherapy P120: Integration of the M6 Cyberknife in the Moderato Monte Carlo platform and prediction of beam parameters using machine learning
magnetic field	Experimental benchmarking of Monte Carlo based detector response simulations in magnetic fields Measurement and simulation of clinical electron beams in magnetic fields: considerations for MR-guided electron beam therapy Monte Carlo demonstration of the air-gap effect for alanine dosimeters in B-field Practical considerations for Monte Carlo simulations in a magnetic field for treatment planning software
Magnetic fields	Investigation of small-cavity chamber response in the presence of magnetic fields MCMA Rising Stars 7: Benchmarking a GATE/Geant4 Monte Carlo model to support treatment planning towards MRI guided ion beam therapy
magnetic resonance imaging	Highlight talk: Radiomics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of cervix cancer patients: the need of harmonization and standardization
mammography	Machine learning and the glandular dose estimation on homogeneous breasts in mammography Geant4 Monte Carlo calculation of normalized glandular dose coefficients in mammography
mapping	Modern mapping of local data for international distributed learning
Markov chain	ICCR Rising Stars 3: Modeling Radiation Dose to Circulating Lymphocytes for different radiotherapy modalities
Markov model	P065: Modeling the design and application of non-inferiority trials in radiotherapy
Material decomposition	The potential of photon-counting CT for quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging in radiotherapy using a maximum a posteriori estimator P044: A Novel Method of Calibration for Improving Accuracy and Sensitivity in Dual Energy Computed Tomography Perfusion
Mathematical Optimization	P076: A mathematical optimization framework for spatial adjustments of dose distributions in high dose-rate brachytherapy
Matrix	P040: Patient Specific Quality Assurance (QA): Case of Cervical Cancer using Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) and Matrix
MBDCA	Validation of a GPU accelerated Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm for clinical use in brachytherapy
MC	Development and association of new metrics of dose and image quality for optimizing protocols in CT imaging Monte Carlo-based software for imaging dose calculations in IGRT Update of the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) TG-43 parameter database for brachytherapy
MCNP	P130: Monte Carlo dosimetry for brachytherapy of cervical cancer
MCNP6.1	P201: Determination of Dosimetric Parameters for Vacuum-sealed Miniature X-ray Brachytherapy Tube
mean glandular dose	Geant4 Monte Carlo calculation of normalized glandular dose coefficients in mammography
medical imaging	Enhanced mesh surface modeling with virtual continuous envelope
Medical Linac Operation	Testing the effect of linac drift on QA protocols with a multi-energy MC simulation
Medical Physics	G4_Med: a Geant4 benchmarking and regression testing suite for medical physics applications in the Geant-val environment P123: Status of the GEANT4 Advanced Examples for medical physics applications
Medium energy xrays	Monte Carlo determination of chamber correction factors for medium energy X-ray beams between 50 and 300 kV
Metabolic tumor volume	Quantification of Local Metabolic Tumor Volume Changes by Registering Blended 18F-FDG PET-CT Images
microbiota	Introducing information on gut microbiota into toxicity modelling: preliminary results from a clinical trial
Microdosimetry	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry A microdosimetric analysis of the interactions of mono-energetic neutrons with human tissue A novel Geant4-DNA application for microdosimetry and dose-average LET calculations of protons in liquid in water. Simulation of micro- nanodosimetry spectra and free radicals with Geant4-DNA, LQD, PHYCHEML, CHEM for ion beams Relative Biological Effectiveness evaluation at CATANA protontherapy ocular beamline: experiments and Monte Carlo simulation P103: Machine learning techniques in microdosimetry: application to energy deposition within cell populations P148: Microdosimetric study of nanoparticles-enhancend radiotherapies with Geant4-DNA.
Micronucleus formation	MCMA Rising Stars 5: Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio
microvasculature	Mechanistic modelling of radiation-therapy damage to microvasculature and of its effect on tissues surrounding tumour
miniature X-ray tube	P201: Determination of Dosimetric Parameters for Vacuum-sealed Miniature X-ray Brachytherapy Tube
minibeam	Simulations of a collimated photon beam for minibeam radiotherapy
Minibeam radiation therapy	Dosimetry to guide the preclinical studies in Minibeam Radiation Therapy at a conventional irradiator: tools and an in vivo proof of concept.
mixed beams	Modeling of chromosome aberrations after combined exposure to X-rays and alpha particles
MLEM	A novel MLEM stopping criterion for unfolding neutron fluence spectra in radiotherapy
Mobile Tumors	P070: Genetic Algorithms for optimal intermittent measurements for tumor tracking
mobility	Modeling of time and spatial evolution of cell nuclear foci induced by mixed radiation (X and alpha)
model based registration	Articulated Skeleton Model Meets Iterative Registration Process to Reliably Detect Posture Changes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Model development methodology	Monte Carlo simulation of a modified model development method to deal with the high collinearity problem in NTCP modelling
Model interpretation and visualization	Deep Prostate MRI Image Understanding and Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks
Model-based	Dynamic model-based dosimetry of permanent implant brachytherapy
modelling	Machine learning helps identifying relations and potential biases in radiomics-based prediction models P132: An automated computer assisted beam modelling tool for scanned proton beam therapy
Models	Interfacing a nuclear interaction model (BLOB) with Geant4
Modular design	P129: Modular design of sealed source applicator using Monte Carlo simulation for brachytherapy
Modulation index	P009: Evaluation of the modulation degrees in APBI IMRT plans
Molecular Compton profile	Quantifying differences between theoretical models in calculations of Compton mass energy-transfer coefficients
monaco	P141: Effects of varying statistical uncertainty using a Monte Carlo based treatment planning system
Monte Carlo	Validation of a GPU accelerated Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm for clinical use in brachytherapy IAEA-AAPM TRS483 based reference dosimetry for the new biology guided radiotherapy system Monte Carlo based Treatment Planning for GammaPod(tm) A parameter study of chemistry simulation for DNA damage after proton irradiation with TOPAS-nBio Sensitivity of Monte Carlo calculated kQ factors to ionization chamber details A microdosimetric analysis of the interactions of mono-energetic neutrons with human tissue Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer Experimental benchmarking of Monte Carlo based detector response simulations in magnetic fields Monte Carlo dosimetry of a custom-made 169Yb source for intensity modulated brachytherapy A dedicated Gate versatile module for Compton camera imaging Large-scale dosimetric comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo recalculated doses for lung robotic SBRT plan Development report for the open source dose calculation and optimization toolkit matRad Machine learning and the glandular dose estimation on homogeneous breasts in mammography Dosimetry to guide the preclinical studies in Minibeam Radiation Therapy at a conventional irradiator: tools and an in vivo proof of concept. MCMA Rising Stars 4: Cherenkov emission-based dosimetry: Detection angle and aperture study Verification of clinical radiotherapy treatment plans with Monte Carlo calculations: Vancouver Island Centre experience First experimental demonstration of ion-therapy planning that combines a clinical biological model with ionization detail Treatment Planning and Delivery Verification for Pulsed Low Dose Rate Radiotherapy Dynamic model-based dosimetry of permanent implant brachytherapy MCMA Rising Stars 3: Towards multiscale simulations with EGSnrc: tests on cellular length scales Treatment plan evaluation in proton minibeam radiation therapy Monte Carlo calculation of the TG-43 dosimetry parameters for the INTRABEAM electronic brachytherapy source Recent improvements in TOPAS-nBio for the efficient simulation of water radiolysis MCMA Rising Stars 5: Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio P200: Understanding image artifacts for a prototype proton computed tomography scanner via Monte Carlo simulations Geant4 Monte Carlo calculation of normalized glandular dose coefficients in mammography A Monte Carlo study of the impact of phantom electron termination on EPID image quality and simulation time Cloud based Monte Carlo independent dose calculation tool for Varian Linacs Monte Carlo modelling of orthovoltage irradiators for radiobiology research – the impact of insufficient backscatter material G4_Med: a Geant4 benchmarking and regression testing suite for medical physics applications in the Geant-val environment Practical considerations for Monte Carlo simulations in a magnetic field for treatment planning software Validation of 4D Monte Carlo dose calculations using a programmable deformable lung phantom P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy P011: Evaluation of potential dosimetric benefits for dynamic trajectory radiotherapy compared to VMAT P103: Machine learning techniques in microdosimetry: application to energy deposition within cell populations P158: Dose perturbation effect of titanium cranial implants in proton beam therapy. P154: A hybrid method calculating linear energy transfer for intensity modulated proton therapy P116: Radiotherapy Dose calculation in Oesophageal Cancer: Comparison of Analytical and Monte Carlo Methods P127: Monte Carlo study on the effect of gold compounds in radiotherapy P120: Integration of the M6 Cyberknife in the Moderato Monte Carlo platform and prediction of beam parameters using machine learning P139: Parallel Monte Carlo implementation of EGS5 with MPI (EGS5-MPI) for large-scale radiation transport simulation P132: An automated computer assisted beam modelling tool for scanned proton beam therapy P133: Systematic Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans for TrueBeam linac using PRIMO P150: Determination of absorbed dose in eye lens and thyroid in thorax computed tomography studies P145: Development of kV X-ray imaging dose calculation system for image guided radiation therapy P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
Monte Carlo (MC)	P163: A Monte Carlo study on the possibility of using bremsstrahlung and gamma emissions to determine seed positions in diffusing alpha-emitter radiation therapy using a gamma camera
Monte Carlo base optimization	A full Monte Carlo inverse planning algorithm for trajectory-based VMAT with simultaneous couch and gantry rotation
Monte Carlo beam model	MCMA Rising Stars 7: Benchmarking a GATE/Geant4 Monte Carlo model to support treatment planning towards MRI guided ion beam therapy
Monte Carlo code TOPAS MC	P128: Monto Carlo simulation of radioactive cement for bone brachytherapy
Monte Carlo dose calculation	MCMA Rising Stars 1: Monte Carlo evaluation of proton range uncertainties using photon-counting CT A Novel Automated Clinical Proton Therapy Patient Quality Assurance via Monte Carlo Simulations and Treatment Log Files
Monte Carlo modeling	Modeling of chromosome aberrations after combined exposure to X-rays and alpha particles MCMA Rising Stars 2: Intrinsic energy response of microDiamond detectors at kilovoltage energy photon beams
Monte Carlo particle transport	The TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation: A flexible tool for Monte Carlo particle transport simulations
Monte Carlo physics model	Extending EGSnrc with a Sum Over Paths Algorithm for Simulations of X-ray Grating Interferometry Modules
Monte Carlo simulation	gPET: An efficient and accurate simulation tool for PET via GPU-based Monte Carlo Evaluation of antiscatter grid performance in pediatric patients via Monte Carlo Simulation Minimizing lymphocyte loss following radiation therapy treatments: machine learning approach P202: Hybrid Approach to Estimate Patient Multiply Scattered Energy Fluence into an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) A Monte Carlo study for diagnosis of the stomach cancer based on the reactions of the thermal neutron capture γ-ray emission P160: Physics-based scatter correction for quantitative PET imaging of hypoxia P156: Monte Carlo evaluation of analytical dose calculations for proton therapy. P119: Investigation of energy dependence of different layers of RTQA2 film over EBT2 film using Monte Carlo simulation P121: Optimization of target thickness on angular dose distributions of a truncated conical-shaped transmission type X-ray tube: A Monte Carlo simulation P115: Statistical limitations in particle imaging P147: A fast method for image simulation of electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) P152: Monte Carlo Based Determination of Radiation Scattering Effect on Image Quality in Brain Imaging with Fan-beam Collimator
Monte Carlo simulations	Investigation of small-cavity chamber response in the presence of magnetic fields Monte Carlo x-ray tube simulation for CBCT: A statistical analysis of the photon distribution components Development and applications of GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo code FRED for particle therapy Simulations for the improvement of bone-equivalent materials for proton beam dosimetry GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations for virtual clinical trials in X-ray breast imaging P131: Estimating Dose from Radiotherapy Treatments in the Vicinity of a Cardiac Pacemaker using Monte Carlo simulations P149: Monte Carlo Calculations of Absorbed Doses Associated to Helical CT
Monte Carlo Treatment Planning	P136: Investigating the accuracy of Monte Carlo based treatment planning of lung patients
Monte-Carlo based reconstruction	Investigation of keel versus knife edge pinhole profiles for a next-generation SPECT system dedicated to clinical brain imaging
Monte-Carlo methods	Ines: a portable and parallel Monte-Carlo simulation code of class II for electromagnetic showers Development and Validation of Online Personal Dosimetry Application Using Computational Method for Interventional Cardiology
Monte-Carlo Planning	A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization
Monte-Carlo simulation	GaGa: GAN for GATE
Montecarlo	P117: Synthesis and modelling the effects of dose deposition of the palladium core and gold shell nanoparticle for brachytherapy
motion	P093: Assessment of non-respiratory abdominal displacements using breathing-compensated 4D imaging of the gastrointestinal tract
Motion compensation	U-net based deformation vector field estimation for motion-compensated 4D-CBCT reconstruction Respiratory motion models built using MR-derived signals and different amounts of MR image data from multi-slice acquisitions Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy
motion correction	P093: Assessment of non-respiratory abdominal displacements using breathing-compensated 4D imaging of the gastrointestinal tract
Motion management	P096: Experimental validation of an MLC tracking treatment simulator with dose reconstruction
motion modelling	In silico validation of motion-including dose reconstruction for MR-guided lung SBRT using a patient specific motion model Hybrid 2D/4D MRI for motion management in liver radiotherapy
MPI	P139: Parallel Monte Carlo implementation of EGS5 with MPI (EGS5-MPI) for large-scale radiation transport simulation
MR guided radiotherapy	Monte Carlo demonstration of the air-gap effect for alanine dosimeters in B-field
MR linac	In silico validation of motion-including dose reconstruction for MR-guided lung SBRT using a patient specific motion model
MR-based synthetic CT	P045: Evaluation of the MR image-driven synthetic CT in prostate IMRT plans
MR-CT registration	P092: Measuring Registration and Motion Uncertainties in Brain Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Patients Treated on a 3DOF vs a 6DOF Couch: Does a New 6DOF Couch Justify Zero PTV Margins?
MR-derived surrogate signals	Respiratory motion models built using MR-derived signals and different amounts of MR image data from multi-slice acquisitions
MR-guided brachytherapy	Monte Carlo Dosimetry Study of Novel Rotating MRI-Compatible Shielded Tandems for Intensity Modulated Cervix Brachytherapy
MR-guided radiotherapy	Transfer learning from CT to MRI: auto-segmentation of the parotid glands using a deep convolutional neural network approach Respiratory motion models built using MR-derived signals and different amounts of MR image data from multi-slice acquisitions Exploration of methods for online plan adaptation on the 1.5T MR-linac
MR-IGRT system	P045: Evaluation of the MR image-driven synthetic CT in prostate IMRT plans
MR-linac	Respiratory motion models built using MR-derived signals and different amounts of MR image data from multi-slice acquisitions Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy Measurement and simulation of clinical electron beams in magnetic fields: considerations for MR-guided electron beam therapy Attenuation and scatter correction of portal images in the MR-Linac using Deep learning Hybrid 2D/4D MRI for motion management in liver radiotherapy Exploration of methods for online plan adaptation on the 1.5T MR-linac
MRI	Hand-Crafted Radiomic Features Predict GBM Patient-Specific Survival Normalized MR-based radiomics to predict xerostomia in head and neck cancer Multiparametric MRI assessment of gross tumour volume and hippocampal changes over the course of brain cancer radiotherapy P093: Assessment of non-respiratory abdominal displacements using breathing-compensated 4D imaging of the gastrointestinal tract P017: Automated Checking Of Adaptive Treatments for Elekta Unity MR-Linac P083: Evaluation of MRI atlas-based automatic segmentations for organs at risk in the brain
MRI-based treatment planning	Use of a 3D generative adversarial network to create synthetic-CT for MRI-based radiation therapy
MRI-guidance	Hybrid 2D/4D MRI for motion management in liver radiotherapy
MRI-guided brachytherapy	Monte Carlo Dosimetry Study of Novel Rotating MRI-Compatible Shielded Tandems for Intensity Modulated Cervix Brachytherapy
Mri-Linac	Practical considerations for Monte Carlo simulations in a magnetic field for treatment planning software
MRT	Modeling SPECT auto-contouring acquisition for 177Lu Molecular RadioTherapy (MRT) using new developments in GATE/ GEANT4
MU density	Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
multi atlas	CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models
multi-citerial beam angle selection and IMRT profile optimization	P013: Fully automated multi-criterial beam angle selection to drastically reduce the number of non-coplanar beams in prostate SBRT
Multi-class classification	P033: Correlation coefficient: a poor metric for multi-class classification
multi-criteria	A novel system for fast and fully automated multi-criterial treatment planning for cervical cancer HDR brachytherapy
multi-criteria optimization	Simulated Annealing and quasi-Newton Algorithms on GPU Architecture for Multi-Criteria Optimization for HDR Brachytherapy
Multi-criterial MLC segmentation	P077: Multi-criterial MLC segmentation to minimize plan quality loss
Multi-objective optimization	Predicting distant failure after radiotherapy in cervix cancer via automated multi-objective model GPU parallelization of catheter position optimization for HDR prostate brachytherapy
Multileaf collimator quality assurance	P054: Robust picket fence quantification
multimodality	A systems oncology simulation framework for modelling 3D tumour spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia treatments
multiple Coulomb scattering	An analytical method to sample proton trajectories under the influence of multiple Coulomb scattering
multiscale	MCMA Rising Stars 3: Towards multiscale simulations with EGSnrc: tests on cellular length scales
Mutual Information	Generation of synthetic CT images for MRI-only proton therapy treatment planning using deep learning
Myocardial perfusion imaging	P153: Monte Carlo simulation of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography for texture analysis
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Nano Diamond	P124: Investigating and measuring the effect of nano diamond on radiation shields
Nano Particles	P124: Investigating and measuring the effect of nano diamond on radiation shields
Nanoparticle	P117: Synthesis and modelling the effects of dose deposition of the palladium core and gold shell nanoparticle for brachytherapy
Nanoparticles	P151: Feasibility study of the use of nanoparticles as theranostic agent in Radiotherapy.
Nanoparticules	P148: Microdosimetric study of nanoparticles-enhancend radiotherapies with Geant4-DNA.
natural language processing	Rule-based pattern matching and text extraction from radiotherapy clinical notes: is there a match? Highlight talk: On the development of an AI based Incident Learning Framework for Clinical Workflow Using Deep Learning Algorithm to Extract Tumour Information from Pathology and Surgical Notes of Chondrosarcoma Patients P025: Filoblu: Sentiment Analysis Application to Doctor-Patient Interactions P063: Feasibility of using Natural Language Processing to extract cancer pain score from clinical notes
Nested Neutron Spectrometer	A novel MLEM stopping criterion for unfolding neutron fluence spectra in radiotherapy
neural network	Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy P047: A neural network based approach to structure QA P004: Evaluating different generator networks of a conditional generative adversarial network for MR-CT synthesis
Neural networks	GaGa: GAN for GATE
Neuron	Monte Carlo track structure simulation study of the effect of radiation on neurons and their glial cells
Neutron	A novel MLEM stopping criterion for unfolding neutron fluence spectra in radiotherapy P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
Neutron Dose	P118: In-Field Photon and Neutron Contamination during Intraoperative Electron Radiotherapy: A Monte Carlo Study
Neutron Moderation	P124: Investigating and measuring the effect of nano diamond on radiation shields
Neutrons	A microdosimetric analysis of the interactions of mono-energetic neutrons with human tissue
NLP	P063: Feasibility of using Natural Language Processing to extract cancer pain score from clinical notes
NNS	P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
Noise detection	P037: Radiomics-based random forest classifier for detecting dental artifacts in CT
non small cell lung cancer	MCMA Rising Stars 6: Anatomical changes vs. calculation approximations: Which causes larger dose distortions for proton therapy patients?
non-coplanar beams	P013: Fully automated multi-criterial beam angle selection to drastically reduce the number of non-coplanar beams in prostate SBRT
non-coplanar vmat	Optimizing Beam Selection for Non-Coplanar VMAT Treatment Planning with Simulated Annealing
non-linear constrained optimization	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
normally distributed range error	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
NSCLC	P098: High doses to the heart affect overall survival in stage III lung cancer patients treated with conventionally fractionated radiation therapy.
NTCP	Fully automated NTCP triggered radiation therapy adaptation in non small cell lung cancer
NTCP calculator	P101: Development of indigenous tool for analysis of large dataset of dose volume histograms
NTCP modeling	Introducing information on gut microbiota into toxicity modelling: preliminary results from a clinical trial
NTCP Modelling	Monte Carlo simulation of a modified model development method to deal with the high collinearity problem in NTCP modelling
Nuclear Medicine	Validation of a GPU-based Monte Carlo internal dosimetry framework for 177Lu radionuclide therapy
Nuclear model	Preliminary results in using Deep Learning to emulate BLOB, a nuclear interaction model
Nuclear reactions	Interfacing a nuclear interaction model (BLOB) with Geant4
Nuclear Shielding	P124: Investigating and measuring the effect of nano diamond on radiation shields
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OAR	P140: A Hybrid IMRT Technique for Treatment of Breast Cancer: A Dosimetric Study
OAR auto-segmentation	P083: Evaluation of MRI atlas-based automatic segmentations for organs at risk in the brain
Ocular Melanoma	Relative Biological Effectiveness evaluation at CATANA protontherapy ocular beamline: experiments and Monte Carlo simulation
oncology	P068: A Clinical Data Model in Oncology to Enable Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services within 360 Oncology
Oncology Information System	P060: A dashboard to monitor Quality Check List items in MOSAIQ
Online adaptive planning	P012: IMPT plan generation in under ten seconds
Online Dosimetry tool	Development and Validation of Online Personal Dosimetry Application Using Computational Method for Interventional Cardiology
Online plan adaptation	Exploration of methods for online plan adaptation on the 1.5T MR-linac
Online tracking	ICCR Rising Stars 5: Liver-ultrasound based motion model for lung tumour tracking in PBS proton therapy
Ontologies	FHIR-ifying Radiotherapy Data: Towards data driven Radiation Oncology
Ontology	The use of ontology in automated extraction of clinical data for machine learning: A Bayesian network example
Open source	gPET: An efficient and accurate simulation tool for PET via GPU-based Monte Carlo P038: Validation of a Radiomic Feature Extraction Module in DICOMautomaton
open source software	Development report for the open source dose calculation and optimization toolkit matRad
Optical photon simulation	Understanding the challenges of deformable scintillation detectors through Monte Carlo simulations
Optimization	Evaluation of antiscatter grid performance in pediatric patients via Monte Carlo Simulation Intensity Modulated Small Animal Radiotherapy Treatment Planning using a Movable Rectangular Collimator The feasibility of outcome-based treatment planning strategy to improve xerostomia symptom in head and neck cancer patients ICCR Rising Stars 4: The importance of evaluating the complete knowledge-based automated planning pipeline Articulated Skeleton Model Meets Iterative Registration Process to Reliably Detect Posture Changes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization
Optimization algorithms	Automated Treatment Planning using Expedited Constrained Hierarchical Optimization: Plan quality and performance enhancements
optimization structure	P085: Automated Generation of Optimization Structures for Treatment Planning in Eclipse using Python
organ at risk	Mechanistic modelling of radiation-therapy damage to microvasculature and of its effect on tissues surrounding tumour
organ deformation	Modelling the effect of time varying organ deformations in head and neck cancer using a PCA model
organ segmentation	Improving accuracy and robustness of deep convolutional neural network based thoracic OAR segmentation by training with data from local institution
Organs absorbed doses	P149: Monte Carlo Calculations of Absorbed Doses Associated to Helical CT
Organs at risk	P006: Automatic Labeling of OARs in Head-and-Neck Region using Non-local 3DResNet
Oropharyngeal Cancers	Radiomics analysis for classification of head and neck cancers human papilloma virus status
Orthanc	P111: Data pipelines in radiation oncology: lessons from software engineering
orthovoltage	Monte Carlo modelling of orthovoltage irradiators for radiobiology research – the impact of insufficient backscatter material
Out-of-field dose	Implementation of pseudo-deterministic transport in a Monte Carlo code for out of field dose calculation
out-of-field dosimetry	P131: Estimating Dose from Radiotherapy Treatments in the Vicinity of a Cardiac Pacemaker using Monte Carlo simulations
outcome prediction	Comparison of machine learning algorithms to predict lymph nodes in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma Deep learning in head & neck cancer prediction
outcome-based treatment planning	The feasibility of outcome-based treatment planning strategy to improve xerostomia symptom in head and neck cancer patients
outcomes analysis	PROPEL, a multi-centre data collection system for radiotherapy analysis
overall survival	P031: Mortality Risk Stratification Model based on Radiomic Features Only: Analysis of Public Open Access Head and Neck Cancer Data P098: High doses to the heart affect overall survival in stage III lung cancer patients treated with conventionally fractionated radiation therapy.
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Pacemaker	P131: Estimating Dose from Radiotherapy Treatments in the Vicinity of a Cardiac Pacemaker using Monte Carlo simulations
PACS	P043: Harnessing the potential of data in clinical PACS with an open-source DICOM server P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories
Paperless	P110: Performing QA with hybrid devices: automation and centralization of results
parallel computing	Ines: a portable and parallel Monte-Carlo simulation code of class II for electromagnetic showers
Parallel geometry	P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
Parallel Monte Carlo	P114: Feasibility study to implement a platform independent Monte Carlo photon dose calculation engine
parameter tuning	Intelligent Parameter Tuning for Iterative CT Reconstruction Via Quality-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pareto Surface	Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy
Pareto-optimal	P013: Fully automated multi-criterial beam angle selection to drastically reduce the number of non-coplanar beams in prostate SBRT
Pareto-optimal treatment planning	Automatic parameter tuning of an algorithm for fast automated Pareto-optimal treatment plan generation
particle navigation	Enhanced mesh surface modeling with virtual continuous envelope
particle therapy	Development and applications of GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo code FRED for particle therapy Fast dose Recalculation on GPU (FRoG) at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center P075: Dosimetric calibration and validation of spectral CT-based stopping power prediction for particle therapy planning
ParticleHP	Improvement of ParticleHP with proton-boron fusion reaction in GEANT4 for medical applications
PARTRAC	A novel Geant4-DNA application for microdosimetry and dose-average LET calculations of protons in liquid in water. DNA damage in cancer cells exposed to beta radiation measured experimentally and modeled in Monte Carlo simulations Modeling of chromosome aberrations after combined exposure to X-rays and alpha particles
pathology	P032: Bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scales in medical imaging with textural analysis – a biological basis for CT radiomics classifiers?
patient	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry
Patient modelling	Quantifying parotid compartment importance for post-radiotherapy function
Patient monitoring	P090: Optimization of an unsupervised patient classification system from daily EPID images
Patient outcomes	Quantifying parotid compartment importance for post-radiotherapy function
patient positioning	Modeling of acute rectal toxicity to compare two patient positioning methods for prostate cancer radiotherapy. Can toxicity modeling be used for quality assurance?
Patient QA	A Novel Automated Clinical Proton Therapy Patient Quality Assurance via Monte Carlo Simulations and Treatment Log Files P049: Implementation of an independent three dimensional dose calculation to streamline Tomotherapy delivery verification using on board exit detector
patient safety	P137: Design of Variable collimator systems for patient safety in Interventional procedure
Patient specific QA	Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
patient-specific	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry
patient-specific DCNN	P089: Automatic thoracic OAR segmentation from CT scans using patient-specific deep convolutional neural networks
PBCT	Improvement of ParticleHP with proton-boron fusion reaction in GEANT4 for medical applications
PBS proton therapy	ICCR Rising Stars 5: Liver-ultrasound based motion model for lung tumour tracking in PBS proton therapy
PCA model	Modelling the effect of time varying organ deformations in head and neck cancer using a PCA model
PCA motion modeling	Real-time tumour localization with single x-ray projection at arbitrary gantry angle using deep learning
Pediatric Radiology	Evaluation of antiscatter grid performance in pediatric patients via Monte Carlo Simulation
pencil beam scanning	DICOM-RT Ion interface to utilize Monte Carlo simulations in routine clinical workflow for proton pencil beam radiotherapy P156: Monte Carlo evaluation of analytical dose calculations for proton therapy. P135: Development of a TOPAS-based independent dose assessment system for pencil beam scanning in proton therapy
Pencil Beam Splitting	Fast dose Recalculation on GPU (FRoG) at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center
pencil-beam algorithm	P156: Monte Carlo evaluation of analytical dose calculations for proton therapy.
PENELOPE	P125: Comparison of simulations by EGS5 and PENELOPE 2014
Per-fraction organ-at-risk dose estimation	Tracking bladder surface dose during radiotherapy for prostate cancers
Percent Depth Dose	Testing the effect of linac drift on QA protocols with a multi-energy MC simulation
performance	P081: Deep Learning, Medical Physics and Cargo Cult Science.
Perfusion	P044: A Novel Method of Calibration for Improving Accuracy and Sensitivity in Dual Energy Computed Tomography Perfusion
Peripheral dose	Implementation of pseudo-deterministic transport in a Monte Carlo code for out of field dose calculation
Permanent Implant	Dynamic model-based dosimetry of permanent implant brachytherapy
Personal Dosimetry Application	Development and Validation of Online Personal Dosimetry Application Using Computational Method for Interventional Cardiology
Personalized treatment	A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information
PET	gPET: An efficient and accurate simulation tool for PET via GPU-based Monte Carlo
PET imaging	P160: Physics-based scatter correction for quantitative PET imaging of hypoxia
PET radiomics	P102: A Prediction Model Incorporating PET Radiomics for Lymph Node Metastases in Esophageal Cancer Patients
PET range verification	P157: Proposal to reduce the effect of the nuclear cross sections in the imprecission of the PET protontherapy range verification
phantom	P035: Learning from scanners: noise reduction and feature correction in Radiomics P130: Monte Carlo dosimetry for brachytherapy of cervical cancer
phantom transport	A Monte Carlo study of the impact of phantom electron termination on EPID image quality and simulation time
Phase-Space	GaGa: GAN for GATE
Photon counting CT	MCMA Rising Stars 1: Monte Carlo evaluation of proton range uncertainties using photon-counting CT
Photon Dose	P118: In-Field Photon and Neutron Contamination during Intraoperative Electron Radiotherapy: A Monte Carlo Study
photon dose calculation algorithm	P055: Evaluation of Dose Calculation Algorithms accuracy for Eclipse, PCRT and Monaco Treatment Planning Systems Using IAEA TPS commissioning in Heterogeneous Phantom
Photon Monte Carlo	P138: The coupled photon/electron Monte Carlo transport code in the RayStation treatment planning system
Photon-counting computed tomography	The potential of photon-counting CT for quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging in radiotherapy using a maximum a posteriori estimator
Physical Model	P086: Head and Neck Deformable Registration by Physical Modeling of Patient Posture Change
physician desired trade-offs	Radiotherapy Dose Prediction with Physician Desired Trade-offs
Picket fence	P054: Robust picket fence quantification
pinnacle	P057: Genesis Care planning room of the future
Pipeline	P111: Data pipelines in radiation oncology: lessons from software engineering
Plan evaluation	P101: Development of indigenous tool for analysis of large dataset of dose volume histograms
plan machine performances	P022: Study of machine learning application for Tomotherapy Delivery Quality Assurance: evaluation of plan machine performances
Plan optimization	Exploration of methods for online plan adaptation on the 1.5T MR-linac
plan quality	The impact of widespread clinical adoption of knowledge-based planning on treatment plan quality and variability
planning	P057: Genesis Care planning room of the future P061: An Ideal Planning Assistant Application for Guidance in Radiation Treatment Planning P020: Clinical implementation of plan quality control for automated prostate planning P141: Effects of varying statistical uncertainty using a Monte Carlo based treatment planning system
pMBRT	Treatment plan evaluation in proton minibeam radiation therapy
pneumonitis	Objective CT-based imaging biomarkers to quantify the evolution of radiation-induced lung damage
Polygonal mesh	P146: Calculation of cellular S-values for Polygonal Mesh models: The impact of a realistic cell representation
prediction	A new EPID based adaptive radiotherapy method for predicting patient susceptibility to having gases
prediction model	P102: A Prediction Model Incorporating PET Radiomics for Lymph Node Metastases in Esophageal Cancer Patients
Prediction of Extracapsular Nodal Extension	P041: Radiomics analysis of lymph nodes for prediction of extracapsular nodal extension from CT images in head and neck cancers
Predictive Model	Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions
Predictive models	P079: Bayesian network structure for predicting two-year survival in patients diagnosed with lung cancer
PRIMO	P133: Systematic Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans for TrueBeam linac using PRIMO
probabilistic modeling	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
probabilistic optimization	Probabilistic optimization of the percentile dosage for cervix patients Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning ICCR Rising Stars 1: Closed-form modeling of biological uncertainties in carbon ion therapy Impact of Gaussian uncertainty assumptions for probabilistic optimization considering range errors
probabilistic planning	Modelling the effect of time varying organ deformations in head and neck cancer using a PCA model Contour Generation with Realistic Inter-observer Variation
probability	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
probability density function	Impact of Gaussian uncertainty assumptions for probabilistic optimization considering range errors
Process Improvement	P106: Implementation of the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System at CHUM - Going Paperless and Smart
Processes	P106: Implementation of the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System at CHUM - Going Paperless and Smart
Prognostic modelling	ICCR Rising Stars 6: Optimising methodology for 4DCT radiomic feature extraction to predict distant failure in NSCLC patients treated with SBRT
Programmable deformable lung phantom	Validation of 4D Monte Carlo dose calculations using a programmable deformable lung phantom
Prompt gamma	A New Prompt Gamma-Ray Detection System for 3D Range Verification in Proton Beam Therapy Comparing measured and simulated prompt gamma cross-section data for carbon target using AFRODITE clover detector system
Pronton	MCMA Rising Stars 5: Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio
Prostate	Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer A new EPID based adaptive radiotherapy method for predicting patient susceptibility to having gases Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization Modeling of acute rectal toxicity to compare two patient positioning methods for prostate cancer radiotherapy. Can toxicity modeling be used for quality assurance? P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy
prostate cancer	Introducing information on gut microbiota into toxicity modelling: preliminary results from a clinical trial Automatic parameter tuning of an algorithm for fast automated Pareto-optimal treatment plan generation P067: Detection and characterisation of prostate cancer from multiparametric MRI using machine learning techniques for focal radiotherapy
prostate gland	On the impact of the training dataset on a deep fully convolutional neural network (DFCNN) for automatic segmentation of the prostate gland on CT images
Prostate lesion classification	Deep Prostate MRI Image Understanding and Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks
Prostate neoplasms	GPU parallelization of catheter position optimization for HDR prostate brachytherapy
Prostate radiotherapy	P064: Evaluation of analysis methods for dose monitoring in patients undergoing prostate radiotherapy
prostate SBRT	P013: Fully automated multi-criterial beam angle selection to drastically reduce the number of non-coplanar beams in prostate SBRT
proton	A parameter study of chemistry simulation for DNA damage after proton irradiation with TOPAS-nBio Monte Carlo track structure simulation study of the effect of radiation on neurons and their glial cells
proton beam therapy	A New Prompt Gamma-Ray Detection System for 3D Range Verification in Proton Beam Therapy P132: An automated computer assisted beam modelling tool for scanned proton beam therapy
proton CT	P200: Understanding image artifacts for a prototype proton computed tomography scanner via Monte Carlo simulations P115: Statistical limitations in particle imaging
Proton dose calculation	P046: Improving proton dose calculation accuracy using deep learning
proton imaging	An analytical method to sample proton trajectories under the influence of multiple Coulomb scattering
proton therapy	MCMA Rising Stars 1: Monte Carlo evaluation of proton range uncertainties using photon-counting CT An analytical method to sample proton trajectories under the influence of multiple Coulomb scattering DICOM-RT Ion interface to utilize Monte Carlo simulations in routine clinical workflow for proton pencil beam radiotherapy Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning Simulations for the improvement of bone-equivalent materials for proton beam dosimetry P200: Understanding image artifacts for a prototype proton computed tomography scanner via Monte Carlo simulations Impact of Gaussian uncertainty assumptions for probabilistic optimization considering range errors Towards FLASH proton therapy: Exploring dose rate distributions for different treatment plan and PBS machine characteristics P023: From research to treatment: how powerful, complex algorithms become a comprehensive clinical application for proton therapy P158: Dose perturbation effect of titanium cranial implants in proton beam therapy. P154: A hybrid method calculating linear energy transfer for intensity modulated proton therapy P156: Monte Carlo evaluation of analytical dose calculations for proton therapy.
proton-boron fusion	Improvement of ParticleHP with proton-boron fusion reaction in GEANT4 for medical applications
protontherapy	Relative Biological Effectiveness evaluation at CATANA protontherapy ocular beamline: experiments and Monte Carlo simulation Improvement of ParticleHP with proton-boron fusion reaction in GEANT4 for medical applications P155: FLUKA simulation of target fragmentation in Protontherapy P157: Proposal to reduce the effect of the nuclear cross sections in the imprecission of the PET protontherapy range verification
ProtonTransport	Modelling ionization and excitation cross sections of proton interaction with liquid water in Geant4-DNA above 100 MeV
Pseudo-deterministic transport	Implementation of pseudo-deterministic transport in a Monte Carlo code for out of field dose calculation
PTV margins	P092: Measuring Registration and Motion Uncertainties in Brain Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Patients Treated on a 3DOF vs a 6DOF Couch: Does a New 6DOF Couch Justify Zero PTV Margins?
Pulmonary fibrosis	Automated segmentation of pulmonary fibrosis on CT images for radiation therapy applications
Pulmonary Nodule	Quantification of Pulmonary Nodule Spiculation Using Angle-Preserving Spherical Conformal Parameterization
Pulsed low dose rate (PLDR)	Treatment Planning and Delivery Verification for Pulsed Low Dose Rate Radiotherapy
pydicom	Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
PyMedPhys	Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction
python	Open source tools for converting 40 ms resolution trf Elekta log files into DICOM RT Plan format for log file-derived dose reconstruction P057: Genesis Care planning room of the future P027: Complete Integration of Quality Control Test Analysis with QATrack+ P085: Automated Generation of Optimization Structures for Treatment Planning in Eclipse using Python
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QA	Attenuation and scatter correction of portal images in the MR-Linac using Deep learning P050: IMRT quality analysis based on machine learning technique and complexity indices
QA centralization	P110: Performing QA with hybrid devices: automation and centralization of results
QATrack+	P027: Complete Integration of Quality Control Test Analysis with QATrack+
qualitative scoring system	P082: Quantitative versus qualitative evaluation of automatic segmentation
quality	P020: Clinical implementation of plan quality control for automated prostate planning
quality assessment	Infrastructure for a Radiation Oncology Quality Surveillance Program
Quality Assurance	Highlight talk: On the development of an AI based Incident Learning Framework for Clinical Workflow P071: Current status of the clinical use, commissioning and QA of Deformable Image Registration in UK radiotherapy centres P040: Patient Specific Quality Assurance (QA): Case of Cervical Cancer using Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) and Matrix P051: Quality assurance based on portal imaging using artificial neural network methods for Varian and Elekta linacs P094: An automated, quantitative and patient specific quality assurance tool for evaluation of deformable image registration in clinical head and neck cases P108: A Method for Serving Linac Log File Data On-Demand for Analysis Using a GraphQL Application Programming Interface
Quality Assurance Guidelines	Testing the effect of linac drift on QA protocols with a multi-energy MC simulation
Quality control	P106: Implementation of the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System at CHUM - Going Paperless and Smart P027: Complete Integration of Quality Control Test Analysis with QATrack+ P052: Pitfalls and lessons of in-house software development learned from developing PlanChecker: a tool for automated quality control of radiotherapy plan transfer from the planning system to the R&V system
Quality Improvement	P016: How VHA’s Radiotherapy Incident Reporting and Analysis System (RIRAS) is making an impact on the quality and safety of radiotherapy?
Quantification	P054: Robust picket fence quantification
Quantified RT plans	ICCR Rising Stars 2: Generalized Feature Analysis for Radiotherapy Application to Head and Neck Outcome Predictions
quantile function	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
quantitative	P099: Comparison of automated and pathologist assessment of radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis for Masson’s trichrome
quantitative versus qualitative	P082: Quantitative versus qualitative evaluation of automatic segmentation
Quantum Tunneling	A Quantum Inspired Algorithm for Radiotherapy Planning Optimization
Quantum-Inspired Optimization	A Quantum Inspired Algorithm for Radiotherapy Planning Optimization
quenching	P200: Understanding image artifacts for a prototype proton computed tomography scanner via Monte Carlo simulations
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radial response	Radial response function of a parallel plate ionization chamber studied using EGSnrc software
radiation biology	The TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation: A flexible tool for Monte Carlo particle transport simulations
Radiation Contamination	P118: In-Field Photon and Neutron Contamination during Intraoperative Electron Radiotherapy: A Monte Carlo Study
Radiation dose distribution	P030: JAWS3D – A 3D dose visualization software for dental application
Radiation dosimetry	Monte Carlo determination of chamber correction factors for medium energy X-ray beams between 50 and 300 kV
radiation physics	P151: Feasibility study of the use of nanoparticles as theranostic agent in Radiotherapy.
Radiation pneumonitis	A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information
radiation response	P103: Machine learning techniques in microdosimetry: application to energy deposition within cell populations
Radiation scattering	P152: Monte Carlo Based Determination of Radiation Scattering Effect on Image Quality in Brain Imaging with Fan-beam Collimator
Radiation Shielding	P126: Radiation shielding competence of WO3-MoO3-TeO2 glasses through Monte Carlo simulation
Radiation therapy	Minimizing lymphocyte loss following radiation therapy treatments: machine learning approach Use of a 3D generative adversarial network to create synthetic-CT for MRI-based radiation therapy Ines: a portable and parallel Monte-Carlo simulation code of class II for electromagnetic showers Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy P004: Evaluating different generator networks of a conditional generative adversarial network for MR-CT synthesis P078: Streamlining the radiotherapy working environment with an in-house developed web application
Radiation therapy planning	P056: Computing IMRT dose distributions using artificial intelligence
radiation transport	Ines: a portable and parallel Monte-Carlo simulation code of class II for electromagnetic showers
Radiation Transport codes	The BIANCA model and its application for RBE predictions along hadrontherapy beams
radiation-induced damage	Mechanistic modelling of radiation-therapy damage to microvasculature and of its effect on tissues surrounding tumour
radiation-induced DNA damage	Modeling of chromosome aberrations after combined exposure to X-rays and alpha particles
radiation-induced lung damage (RILD)	Objective CT-based imaging biomarkers to quantify the evolution of radiation-induced lung damage
Radiobiological parameters	P143: Comparison of dosimetric and radiobiological parameters on the different VMAT techniques for left-sided breast cancer
Radiobiology	The BIANCA model and its application for RBE predictions along hadrontherapy beams Relative Biological Effectiveness evaluation at CATANA protontherapy ocular beamline: experiments and Monte Carlo simulation Development and applications of GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo code FRED for particle therapy First experimental demonstration of ion-therapy planning that combines a clinical biological model with ionization detail P142: Assessment of radiation-induced second cancer risks in radiated organs after (3D-CRT) radiotherapy in breast cancer using (by) BEIR VII radiobiological model
Radiodensity	P100: Comparing the efficacy of SBRT and IMRT in reducing radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis
radioembolization	DNA damage in cancer cells exposed to beta radiation measured experimentally and modeled in Monte Carlo simulations
radioenhancement	P151: Feasibility study of the use of nanoparticles as theranostic agent in Radiotherapy.
Radiology Workflow	Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions
Radiolysis	Recent improvements in TOPAS-nBio for the efficient simulation of water radiolysis
radiomics	Radial radiomics: do higher pixel values outside the GTV predict for worse survival in early stage lung cancer Hand-Crafted Radiomic Features Predict GBM Patient-Specific Survival Comparison of machine learning algorithms to predict lymph nodes in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions Normalized MR-based radiomics to predict xerostomia in head and neck cancer ICCR Rising Stars 6: Optimising methodology for 4DCT radiomic feature extraction to predict distant failure in NSCLC patients treated with SBRT Monte Carlo quantification of statistical risk when using a surrogate radiomic marker Machine learning helps identifying relations and potential biases in radiomics-based prediction models Highlight talk: Radiomics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of cervix cancer patients: the need of harmonization and standardization ICCR Rising Stars 2: Generalized Feature Analysis for Radiotherapy Application to Head and Neck Outcome Predictions Radiomics-based decision-support system in renal cell carcinomas Quantification of Pulmonary Nodule Spiculation Using Angle-Preserving Spherical Conformal Parameterization Quantification of Local Metabolic Tumor Volume Changes by Registering Blended 18F-FDG PET-CT Images Deep learning in head & neck cancer prediction CT-based Radiomics Predicting HPV Status in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma P036: Radiomics model of overall survival from non-small lung cancer using a distributed learning platform P087: Feature based quality assurance of image segmentation for clinical trials P032: Bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scales in medical imaging with textural analysis – a biological basis for CT radiomics classifiers? P037: Radiomics-based random forest classifier for detecting dental artifacts in CT P038: Validation of a Radiomic Feature Extraction Module in DICOMautomaton P034: “Distributed Radiomics” - a signature validation study using a Personal Health Train infrastructure P031: Mortality Risk Stratification Model based on Radiomic Features Only: Analysis of Public Open Access Head and Neck Cancer Data P035: Learning from scanners: noise reduction and feature correction in Radiomics P067: Detection and characterisation of prostate cancer from multiparametric MRI using machine learning techniques for focal radiotherapy
Radiomics Analysis	FAIR-Radiomics Infrastructure P041: Radiomics analysis of lymph nodes for prediction of extracapsular nodal extension from CT images in head and neck cancers
Radiomics Feature	Radiomics analysis for classification of head and neck cancers human papilloma virus status
radiomics models	CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models
radionuclide therapy	Validation of a GPU-based Monte Carlo internal dosimetry framework for 177Lu radionuclide therapy
radiosurgery	P084: Clinical evaluation of deep learning methods for brain tumor contouring
Radiotherapy	Mechanistic modelling of radiation-therapy damage to microvasculature and of its effect on tissues surrounding tumour FHIR-ifying Radiotherapy Data: Towards data driven Radiation Oncology Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning Verification of clinical radiotherapy treatment plans with Monte Carlo calculations: Vancouver Island Centre experience Treatment Planning and Delivery Verification for Pulsed Low Dose Rate Radiotherapy Optimizing Beam Selection for Non-Coplanar VMAT Treatment Planning with Simulated Annealing P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy P090: Optimization of an unsupervised patient classification system from daily EPID images P079: Bayesian network structure for predicting two-year survival in patients diagnosed with lung cancer P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories P099: Comparison of automated and pathologist assessment of radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis for Masson’s trichrome P070: Genetic Algorithms for optimal intermittent measurements for tumor tracking P100: Comparing the efficacy of SBRT and IMRT in reducing radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis P127: Monte Carlo study on the effect of gold compounds in radiotherapy P151: Feasibility study of the use of nanoparticles as theranostic agent in Radiotherapy.
Radiotherapy plan transfer	P052: Pitfalls and lessons of in-house software development learned from developing PlanChecker: a tool for automated quality control of radiotherapy plan transfer from the planning system to the R&V system
Radiotherapy quality assurance	P054: Robust picket fence quantification
Radiotherapy treatment planning	Exploration of methods for online plan adaptation on the 1.5T MR-linac P053: Introduction of a cloud based treatment planning system for a large multi-site radiotherapy centre
Random Forest	A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information P037: Radiomics-based random forest classifier for detecting dental artifacts in CT
range error	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
range uncertainties	MCMA Rising Stars 1: Monte Carlo evaluation of proton range uncertainties using photon-counting CT ICCR Rising Stars 1: Closed-form modeling of biological uncertainties in carbon ion therapy Impact of Gaussian uncertainty assumptions for probabilistic optimization considering range errors
range uncertainty	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning P158: Dose perturbation effect of titanium cranial implants in proton beam therapy. P115: Statistical limitations in particle imaging
range verification	A New Prompt Gamma-Ray Detection System for 3D Range Verification in Proton Beam Therapy
rapid learning	Highlight talk: Clinical application of big data research: Towards a practical implementation of rapid learning for radiotherapy optimization
Rapid-learning	P066: A rapid Learning model for cervical cancer
Ray marching	Tracking bladder surface dose during radiotherapy for prostate cancers
ray-casting algorithm	P156: Monte Carlo evaluation of analytical dose calculations for proton therapy.
Ray-Tracing	Large-scale dosimetric comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo recalculated doses for lung robotic SBRT plan
RBE	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry First experimental demonstration of ion-therapy planning that combines a clinical biological model with ionization detail
Real-time image analysis	Highlight talk: Deep Learning Model for Markerless Tracking in Spinal SBRT
Real-time QA	P029: Obtaining real-time EPID-image based error detection thresholds via supervised learning.
real-time tracking	Hybrid 2D/4D MRI for motion management in liver radiotherapy
real-time tumor tracking	P091: Line of Response (LOR)-based real-time tumor tracking for emission-guided radiotherapy
Real-time tumour-tracking	P008: Automated lung tumour detection in colour fluoroscopic images based on a deep learning for real-time tumour tracking radiotherapy
Realistic breathing motion pattern	Validation of 4D Monte Carlo dose calculations using a programmable deformable lung phantom
rectal toxicity	Modeling of acute rectal toxicity to compare two patient positioning methods for prostate cancer radiotherapy. Can toxicity modeling be used for quality assurance?
Reference dosimetry	IAEA-AAPM TRS483 based reference dosimetry for the new biology guided radiotherapy system
Relative Biological Effectiveness	The BIANCA model and its application for RBE predictions along hadrontherapy beams Simulation of micro- nanodosimetry spectra and free radicals with Geant4-DNA, LQD, PHYCHEML, CHEM for ion beams Relative Biological Effectiveness evaluation at CATANA protontherapy ocular beamline: experiments and Monte Carlo simulation
relative range error	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
renal cell carcinoma	Radiomics-based decision-support system in renal cell carcinomas
Reports	P106: Implementation of the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System at CHUM - Going Paperless and Smart
Reproducibility	CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models P035: Learning from scanners: noise reduction and feature correction in Radiomics
ResNet 152	P042: Dermatology Level Dermoscopy Skin Cancer Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) Algorithm
ResNeXt	Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer
Respiratory motion	Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy
Respiratory motion model	Respiratory motion model derived from CBCT projection data
respiratory motion models	Respiratory motion models built using MR-derived signals and different amounts of MR image data from multi-slice acquisitions
respiratory surrogate signals	Respiratory motion model derived from CBCT projection data
Response matrix	P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
RIRAS	P016: How VHA’s Radiotherapy Incident Reporting and Analysis System (RIRAS) is making an impact on the quality and safety of radiotherapy?
RNA-Seq	P105: Deep-Mining lncRNA transcriptomics of breast cancer by TCGA RNA-Seq data
robust optimization	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning P023: From research to treatment: how powerful, complex algorithms become a comprehensive clinical application for proton therapy
Robust treatment planning	Predicting inter-fractional anatomical change in head and neck cancer patients using diffeomorphic image registration
Robustness Analysis	P069: Quantifying the Impact of Organ-At-Risk Delineation Variability in the Context of Patient Setup Uncertainty
Rollout-based Tree Search	A Monte-Carlo Tree Game for Beam Orientation Optimization
routine data	Highlight talk: Clinical application of big data research: Towards a practical implementation of rapid learning for radiotherapy optimization
RPWBA	Modelling ionization and excitation cross sections of proton interaction with liquid water in Geant4-DNA above 100 MeV
RT	Exploring the Relationship of Radiation Dose Exposed to the Length of Esophagus and Weight Loss in Patients with NSCLC
rule-based pattern matching	Rule-based pattern matching and text extraction from radiotherapy clinical notes: is there a match?
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S-value	P146: Calculation of cellular S-values for Polygonal Mesh models: The impact of a realistic cell representation
Sarcopenia	Transfer Learning for Sarcopenia Segmentation
SBRT	In silico validation of motion-including dose reconstruction for MR-guided lung SBRT using a patient specific motion model P062: Automated characterisation of continuous portal imaging of radiotherapy FFF beams for SBRT verification P100: Comparing the efficacy of SBRT and IMRT in reducing radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis
scatter correction	CBCT image correction with a Unet trained on 2D slices and 3D patches
Scatter removal	Generating Synthesized Computed Tomography (CT) from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) for Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Scintillation detectors	Understanding the challenges of deformable scintillation detectors through Monte Carlo simulations
scripting	Automated Script Testing For RayStation P085: Automated Generation of Optimization Structures for Treatment Planning in Eclipse using Python
sealed source applicator	P129: Modular design of sealed source applicator using Monte Carlo simulation for brachytherapy
Secondary cancer	Implementation of pseudo-deterministic transport in a Monte Carlo code for out of field dose calculation
segmentation	CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer On the impact of the training dataset on a deep fully convolutional neural network (DFCNN) for automatic segmentation of the prostate gland on CT images Sigmoid Segmentation via a Human-Like Deep Learning Approach P007: Segmentation of bones for radiation therapy from medical dual-energy computed tomography volumes using the 3D U-Net
Semantic Ontology	Using Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to support cancer care decisions
Semi-supervised learning	BI-RADS Features Oriented Semi-supervised Deep Learning for Breast Ultrasound Computer-Aided Diagnosis
sentiment analysis	P025: Filoblu: Sentiment Analysis Application to Doctor-Patient Interactions
Shiny	P066: A rapid Learning model for cervical cancer
side effects	Mechanistic modelling of radiation-therapy damage to microvasculature and of its effect on tissues surrounding tumour
sigmoid	Sigmoid Segmentation via a Human-Like Deep Learning Approach
Simulation	Monte Carlo simulation of a modified model development method to deal with the high collinearity problem in NTCP modelling P032: Bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scales in medical imaging with textural analysis – a biological basis for CT radiomics classifiers?
simulation time	A Monte Carlo study of the impact of phantom electron termination on EPID image quality and simulation time
Simulations	A dedicated Gate versatile module for Compton camera imaging
Simultaneous US and MRI	ICCR Rising Stars 5: Liver-ultrasound based motion model for lung tumour tracking in PBS proton therapy
Single x-ray projection	Real-time tumour localization with single x-ray projection at arbitrary gantry angle using deep learning
sinogram denoising	P003: Deep learning-based reconstruction-aware sinogram denoising for low dose CT
skin cancer	P042: Dermatology Level Dermoscopy Skin Cancer Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) Algorithm P129: Modular design of sealed source applicator using Monte Carlo simulation for brachytherapy
small animal	Monte Carlo modelling of orthovoltage irradiators for radiobiology research – the impact of insufficient backscatter material
Small animal radiotherapy	Intensity Modulated Small Animal Radiotherapy Treatment Planning using a Movable Rectangular Collimator
Small cavity ion chamber response	Investigation of small-cavity chamber response in the presence of magnetic fields
small data	P081: Deep Learning, Medical Physics and Cargo Cult Science.
small field dosimetry	IAEA-AAPM TRS483 based reference dosimetry for the new biology guided radiotherapy system
Software	P078: Streamlining the radiotherapy working environment with an in-house developed web application
Software development	Adapting the adaptive workflow using APIs, Events & Agents Automated Script Testing For RayStation QaTest: a fully automatized EPI analysis software for continuous quality assurance Development report for the open source dose calculation and optimization toolkit matRad Fast dose Recalculation on GPU (FRoG) at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center P058: Using Eclipse Scripting To Improve Radiotherapy Treatment Plan Quality and Planning Workflow Efficiency P107: Improving development practice for creating and maintaining clinical, in-house developed software tools. P024: Dealing with large scale legacy code in a critical clinical infrastructure
software library	CERR’s Model Implementation Library for sharing radiomics and image segmentation models
Software Maintenance	Automated Script Testing For RayStation
Spatial Dose Distribution	P076: A mathematical optimization framework for spatial adjustments of dose distributions in high dose-rate brachytherapy
Spatial Dose Patterns	Understanding the influence of spatial radiation dose patterns on xerostomia: what they might be telling us.
Spatiotemporal optimization	Fractionation considerations in jointly optimized photon–carbon ion treatment plans
specific	Towards Patient Specific Microdosimetry
SPECT	GaGa: GAN for GATE
SPECT imaging	Modeling SPECT auto-contouring acquisition for 177Lu Molecular RadioTherapy (MRT) using new developments in GATE/ GEANT4
Spectral analysis	P044: A Novel Method of Calibration for Improving Accuracy and Sensitivity in Dual Energy Computed Tomography Perfusion
spectral CT	P075: Dosimetric calibration and validation of spectral CT-based stopping power prediction for particle therapy planning
spectrum	A novel MLEM stopping criterion for unfolding neutron fluence spectra in radiotherapy
spheroid	A systems oncology simulation framework for modelling 3D tumour spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia treatments
Spiculation	Quantification of Pulmonary Nodule Spiculation Using Angle-Preserving Spherical Conformal Parameterization
spot scanning	A New Prompt Gamma-Ray Detection System for 3D Range Verification in Proton Beam Therapy
SQL	The use of ontology in automated extraction of clinical data for machine learning: A Bayesian network example
standard deviation	Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning
standardization	Highlight talk: Radiomics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of cervix cancer patients: the need of harmonization and standardization P068: A Clinical Data Model in Oncology to Enable Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services within 360 Oncology P038: Validation of a Radiomic Feature Extraction Module in DICOMautomaton
Standards	P125: Comparison of simulations by EGS5 and PENELOPE 2014
Statistical Analysis	Monte Carlo x-ray tube simulation for CBCT: A statistical analysis of the photon distribution components
statistical model	P115: Statistical limitations in particle imaging
Statistical modeling	Monte Carlo quantification of statistical risk when using a surrogate radiomic marker Adapting classifiers to work with imbalanced data in machine learning P033: Correlation coefficient: a poor metric for multi-class classification
Statistical motion model	ICCR Rising Stars 5: Liver-ultrasound based motion model for lung tumour tracking in PBS proton therapy
Step-and-shoot IMRT	P077: Multi-criterial MLC segmentation to minimize plan quality loss
Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy	Highlight talk: Deep Learning Model for Markerless Tracking in Spinal SBRT
Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy	Highlight talk: Deep Learning Model for Markerless Tracking in Spinal SBRT
Stereotactic Radiosurgery	Highlight talk: Deep Learning Model for Markerless Tracking in Spinal SBRT
Stereotactic radiotherapy	P120: Integration of the M6 Cyberknife in the Moderato Monte Carlo platform and prediction of beam parameters using machine learning
stochastic optimization	Impact of Gaussian uncertainty assumptions for probabilistic optimization considering range errors
Stochastic process	ICCR Rising Stars 3: Modeling Radiation Dose to Circulating Lymphocytes for different radiotherapy modalities
stopping criterion	A novel MLEM stopping criterion for unfolding neutron fluence spectra in radiotherapy
stopping power	P200: Understanding image artifacts for a prototype proton computed tomography scanner via Monte Carlo simulations P075: Dosimetric calibration and validation of spectral CT-based stopping power prediction for particle therapy planning
Sub-segmentation	Quantifying parotid compartment importance for post-radiotherapy function
Super-resolution reconstruction	Respiratory motion models built using MR-derived signals and different amounts of MR image data from multi-slice acquisitions Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy
Supervised Learning	Deep Learning Neural Network for Beam Orientation Optimization
surface modeling	Enhanced mesh surface modeling with virtual continuous envelope
Surrogate-driven motion model	Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy
surrogate-driven motion models	Respiratory motion models built using MR-derived signals and different amounts of MR image data from multi-slice acquisitions
Survey	P071: Current status of the clinical use, commissioning and QA of Deformable Image Registration in UK radiotherapy centres
Survival	Hand-Crafted Radiomic Features Predict GBM Patient-Specific Survival
survival analysis	Radial radiomics: do higher pixel values outside the GTV predict for worse survival in early stage lung cancer
SVM	Quantification of Pulmonary Nodule Spiculation Using Angle-Preserving Spherical Conformal Parameterization
Synthesized CT	Generating Synthesized Computed Tomography (CT) from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) for Adaptive Radiation Therapy P080: Evaluation of Synthesized Computed Tomography (sCT) Generated from Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) by Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN)
Synthetic CT	Use of a 3D generative adversarial network to create synthetic-CT for MRI-based radiation therapy Generation of synthetic CT images for MRI-only proton therapy treatment planning using deep learning P004: Evaluating different generator networks of a conditional generative adversarial network for MR-CT synthesis
synthetic diamond detector	MCMA Rising Stars 2: Intrinsic energy response of microDiamond detectors at kilovoltage energy photon beams
system	P141: Effects of varying statistical uncertainty using a Monte Carlo based treatment planning system
systems oncology	A systems oncology simulation framework for modelling 3D tumour spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia treatments
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target fragmentation	P155: FLUKA simulation of target fragmentation in Protontherapy
Targeted radionuclide therapy	P146: Calculation of cellular S-values for Polygonal Mesh models: The impact of a realistic cell representation
TCP calculator	P101: Development of indigenous tool for analysis of large dataset of dose volume histograms
TEC-DOC 1583 (TPS commissioning)	P055: Evaluation of Dose Calculation Algorithms accuracy for Eclipse, PCRT and Monaco Treatment Planning Systems Using IAEA TPS commissioning in Heterogeneous Phantom
tessellation	Modeling SPECT auto-contouring acquisition for 177Lu Molecular RadioTherapy (MRT) using new developments in GATE/ GEANT4
textural analysis	P032: Bridging the gap between micro- and macro-scales in medical imaging with textural analysis – a biological basis for CT radiomics classifiers?
Texture analysis	P153: Monte Carlo simulation of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography for texture analysis
TG-43	Monte Carlo dosimetry of a custom-made 169Yb source for intensity modulated brachytherapy Monte Carlo calculation of the TG-43 dosimetry parameters for the INTRABEAM electronic brachytherapy source P144: Development of Volumetric Independent Dose Calculation System for Adaptive Brachytherapy
TG-61	Monte Carlo modelling of orthovoltage irradiators for radiobiology research – the impact of insufficient backscatter material
TG43	P201: Determination of Dosimetric Parameters for Vacuum-sealed Miniature X-ray Brachytherapy Tube
theranostics	P151: Feasibility study of the use of nanoparticles as theranostic agent in Radiotherapy.
thermal neutron capture γ-ray emission	A Monte Carlo study for diagnosis of the stomach cancer based on the reactions of the thermal neutron capture γ-ray emission
Thoracic	Improving accuracy and robustness of deep convolutional neural network based thoracic OAR segmentation by training with data from local institution
thoracic OAR segmentation	P089: Automatic thoracic OAR segmentation from CT scans using patient-specific deep convolutional neural networks
thoracic radiotherapy	Prognostication of vascular calcification identified in 4DCT of lung cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy
thyroid	P150: Determination of absorbed dose in eye lens and thyroid in thorax computed tomography studies
Tissue Phantom Ratio	Testing the effect of linac drift on QA protocols with a multi-energy MC simulation
tissue-equivalent materials	Simulations for the improvement of bone-equivalent materials for proton beam dosimetry
Titanium implants	P158: Dose perturbation effect of titanium cranial implants in proton beam therapy.
TomoTherapy	P022: Study of machine learning application for Tomotherapy Delivery Quality Assurance: evaluation of plan machine performances
TOPAS	Monte Carlo simulation of a micrometric dosimetry system based on the ALPIDE chip DICOM-RT Ion interface to utilize Monte Carlo simulations in routine clinical workflow for proton pencil beam radiotherapy P135: Development of a TOPAS-based independent dose assessment system for pencil beam scanning in proton therapy
TOPAS-nBio	A parameter study of chemistry simulation for DNA damage after proton irradiation with TOPAS-nBio Recent improvements in TOPAS-nBio for the efficient simulation of water radiolysis MCMA Rising Stars 5: Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio
Toxicity	A novel machine learning-Bayesian network model for prediction of radiation pneumonitis: Importance of mid-treatment information
toxicity modeling	Modeling of acute rectal toxicity to compare two patient positioning methods for prostate cancer radiotherapy. Can toxicity modeling be used for quality assurance?
trace element	A Monte Carlo study for diagnosis of the stomach cancer based on the reactions of the thermal neutron capture γ-ray emission
Track Structure	A microdosimetric analysis of the interactions of mono-energetic neutrons with human tissue
Track structure simulations	Monte Carlo track structure simulation study of the effect of radiation on neurons and their glial cells
Track-structure	Recent improvements in TOPAS-nBio for the efficient simulation of water radiolysis
TrackIt	P110: Performing QA with hybrid devices: automation and centralization of results
trajectory log	P108: A Method for Serving Linac Log File Data On-Demand for Analysis Using a GraphQL Application Programming Interface
Trajectory optimization	P011: Evaluation of potential dosimetric benefits for dynamic trajectory radiotherapy compared to VMAT
Trajectory-based volumetric modulated arc therapy	A full Monte Carlo inverse planning algorithm for trajectory-based VMAT with simultaneous couch and gantry rotation
transfer learning	Transfer learning from CT to MRI: auto-segmentation of the parotid glands using a deep convolutional neural network approach Transfer Learning for Sarcopenia Segmentation P089: Automatic thoracic OAR segmentation from CT scans using patient-specific deep convolutional neural networks
transmission X-ray tube	P121: Optimization of target thickness on angular dose distributions of a truncated conical-shaped transmission type X-ray tube: A Monte Carlo simulation
treatment	P141: Effects of varying statistical uncertainty using a Monte Carlo based treatment planning system
treatment optimization	Highlight talk: Clinical application of big data research: Towards a practical implementation of rapid learning for radiotherapy optimization
Treatment Plan Checking	P017: Automated Checking Of Adaptive Treatments for Elekta Unity MR-Linac
Treatment plan optimization	Highlight talk: Fast automated IMRT optimization using deep-learned dose from a 2.5D generative adversarial network P077: Multi-criterial MLC segmentation to minimize plan quality loss
Treatment plan validation	P011: Evaluation of potential dosimetric benefits for dynamic trajectory radiotherapy compared to VMAT
treatment plan verification	Verification of clinical radiotherapy treatment plans with Monte Carlo calculations: Vancouver Island Centre experience
treatment planning	Monte Carlo based Treatment Planning for GammaPod(tm) Development report for the open source dose calculation and optimization toolkit matRad Highlight talk: Confidence constraints for probabilistic radiotherapy treatment planning Simulated Annealing and quasi-Newton Algorithms on GPU Architecture for Multi-Criteria Optimization for HDR Brachytherapy Treatment plan evaluation in proton minibeam radiation therapy Optimizing Beam Selection for Non-Coplanar VMAT Treatment Planning with Simulated Annealing The impact of widespread clinical adoption of knowledge-based planning on treatment plan quality and variability GPU parallelization of catheter position optimization for HDR prostate brachytherapy P113: The Functional Paradigm in RT Computing: Features & Realization P002: Virtual Treatment Planner for Radiation Therapy via Deep Reinforcement Learning P058: Using Eclipse Scripting To Improve Radiotherapy Treatment Plan Quality and Planning Workflow Efficiency P085: Automated Generation of Optimization Structures for Treatment Planning in Eclipse using Python P115: Statistical limitations in particle imaging P138: The coupled photon/electron Monte Carlo transport code in the RayStation treatment planning system
Treatment planning algorithm	P116: Radiotherapy Dose calculation in Oesophageal Cancer: Comparison of Analytical and Monte Carlo Methods
treatment planning system	Development and applications of GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo code FRED for particle therapy P055: Evaluation of Dose Calculation Algorithms accuracy for Eclipse, PCRT and Monaco Treatment Planning Systems Using IAEA TPS commissioning in Heterogeneous Phantom P012: IMPT plan generation in under ten seconds P135: Development of a TOPAS-based independent dose assessment system for pencil beam scanning in proton therapy
Treatment Planning Systems	Automated Script Testing For RayStation
Treatment Planning Workflow	P060: A dashboard to monitor Quality Check List items in MOSAIQ
Treatment response	Multiparametric MRI assessment of gross tumour volume and hippocampal changes over the course of brain cancer radiotherapy
Treatment simulation	P096: Experimental validation of an MLC tracking treatment simulator with dose reconstruction
treatment system design	The TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation: A flexible tool for Monte Carlo particle transport simulations
Treatment verification	P001: Deep learning for error detection in EPID dosimetry: A proof of concept
Tree search	P010: A reinforcement learning application of Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm for beam orientation selection in radiation therapy
triangles mesh	Enhanced mesh surface modeling with virtual continuous envelope
Triggered adaptation	Fully automated NTCP triggered radiation therapy adaptation in non small cell lung cancer
TrueBeam	Cloud based Monte Carlo independent dose calculation tool for Varian Linacs P133: Systematic Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans for TrueBeam linac using PRIMO
Tumor localization	Real-time tumour localization with single x-ray projection at arbitrary gantry angle using deep learning
tumor microenvironment	Mechanistic modelling of radiation-therapy damage to microvasculature and of its effect on tissues surrounding tumour
Tumor response	Quantification of Local Metabolic Tumor Volume Changes by Registering Blended 18F-FDG PET-CT Images
Tumor Tracking	P070: Genetic Algorithms for optimal intermittent measurements for tumor tracking
tumour detection	P067: Detection and characterisation of prostate cancer from multiparametric MRI using machine learning techniques for focal radiotherapy
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U-net	U-net based deformation vector field estimation for motion-compensated 4D-CBCT reconstruction Highlight talk: Using a Bayesian neural network approximation to quantify the uncertainty in segmentation prediction on prostate cancer Attenuation and scatter correction of portal images in the MR-Linac using Deep learning Highlight talk: Real-time generation of Pareto 3D dose distributions for radiotherapy P003: Deep learning-based reconstruction-aware sinogram denoising for low dose CT
ultrasound	BI-RADS Features Oriented Semi-supervised Deep Learning for Breast Ultrasound Computer-Aided Diagnosis Modeling of acute rectal toxicity to compare two patient positioning methods for prostate cancer radiotherapy. Can toxicity modeling be used for quality assurance?
Ultrasound segmentation	P059: Automated catheter reconstruction for TRUS HDR prostate brachytherapy
uncertainty	P141: Effects of varying statistical uncertainty using a Monte Carlo based treatment planning system
Uncertainty Analysis	P101: Development of indigenous tool for analysis of large dataset of dose volume histograms P065: Modeling the design and application of non-inferiority trials in radiotherapy
Uncertainty simulation	P026: Comparing two web platforms for uncertainty simulation of external beam radiotherapy
unet	CBCT image correction with a Unet trained on 2D slices and 3D patches
unfolding	A novel MLEM stopping criterion for unfolding neutron fluence spectra in radiotherapy
Unsupervised consensus clustering	P105: Deep-Mining lncRNA transcriptomics of breast cancer by TCGA RNA-Seq data
Unsupervised learning	P090: Optimization of an unsupervised patient classification system from daily EPID images
upright radiotherapy	Dose calculation on upright cone beam CT
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Validation	Geometric accuracy of surrogate-driven respiratory motion models for MR-guided lung radiotherapy MCMA Rising Stars 3: Towards multiscale simulations with EGSnrc: tests on cellular length scales G4_Med: a Geant4 benchmarking and regression testing suite for medical physics applications in the Geant-val environment Validation of Geant4 fragmentation models for therapeutic 4He ion beams P038: Validation of a Radiomic Feature Extraction Module in DICOMautomaton
Variable collimator	P137: Design of Variable collimator systems for patient safety in Interventional procedure
Variable RBE model	Fractionation considerations in jointly optimized photon–carbon ion treatment plans
Varian	Cloud based Monte Carlo independent dose calculation tool for Varian Linacs
Varian Learning Portal	Highlight talk: Using Federated Data Sources and Varian Learning Portal Framework to Train Neural Network for Automatic Organ Segmentation
Varian Phase Space Files	P133: Systematic Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans for TrueBeam linac using PRIMO
variance	P141: Effects of varying statistical uncertainty using a Monte Carlo based treatment planning system
Variance reduction	Implementation of pseudo-deterministic transport in a Monte Carlo code for out of field dose calculation P162: Generation of the response matrix of a passive nested neutron spectrometer system for use in radiotherapy environments
Variational Auto-Encoder	Preliminary results in using Deep Learning to emulate BLOB, a nuclear interaction model
vascular calcification	Prognostication of vascular calcification identified in 4DCT of lung cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy
verification	MCMA Rising Stars 3: Towards multiscale simulations with EGSnrc: tests on cellular length scales
vertebral bone cancer	P128: Monto Carlo simulation of radioactive cement for bone brachytherapy
Virtual clinical trial	GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations for virtual clinical trials in X-ray breast imaging
virtual DQA	P022: Study of machine learning application for Tomotherapy Delivery Quality Assurance: evaluation of plan machine performances
Virtual non-contrast	The potential of photon-counting CT for quantitative contrast-enhanced imaging in radiotherapy using a maximum a posteriori estimator
VMAT	Deep learning based 3D dose prediction with a self-evolving training dataset Treatment Planning and Delivery Verification for Pulsed Low Dose Rate Radiotherapy A fast inverse direct aperture optimization algorithm for volume-modulated arc therapy P029: Obtaining real-time EPID-image based error detection thresholds via supervised learning. P133: Systematic Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans for TrueBeam linac using PRIMO
Volumetric modulated arc therapy	P143: Comparison of dosimetric and radiobiological parameters on the different VMAT techniques for left-sided breast cancer
volumetric-modulated arc therapy	Integrating DVH criteria into a column generation algorithm for VMAT
voxel-based analysis	Voxel dose pattern for dysphagia among head and neck cancer patients receiving definitive radiotherapy
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Web based software	P026: Comparing two web platforms for uncertainty simulation of external beam radiotherapy
Web development	P078: Streamlining the radiotherapy working environment with an in-house developed web application
Webbased	P114: Feasibility study to implement a platform independent Monte Carlo photon dose calculation engine
WebGL	P114: Feasibility study to implement a platform independent Monte Carlo photon dose calculation engine
weight loss	Exploring the Relationship of Radiation Dose Exposed to the Length of Esophagus and Weight Loss in Patients with NSCLC
Workflow	CorTx-RT: Service Oriented Architecture for Radiation Oncology Informatics P078: Streamlining the radiotherapy working environment with an in-house developed web application
Workflow automation	Fully automated NTCP triggered radiation therapy adaptation in non small cell lung cancer
Workflow Management	P058: Using Eclipse Scripting To Improve Radiotherapy Treatment Plan Quality and Planning Workflow Efficiency
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X-ray breast imaging	GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations for virtual clinical trials in X-ray breast imaging
X-ray Imaging	P202: Hybrid Approach to Estimate Patient Multiply Scattered Energy Fluence into an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID)
X-ray phase contrast imaging	Extending EGSnrc with a Sum Over Paths Algorithm for Simulations of X-ray Grating Interferometry Modules
X-ray Scatter	P202: Hybrid Approach to Estimate Patient Multiply Scattered Energy Fluence into an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) Monte Carlo x-ray tube simulation for CBCT: A statistical analysis of the photon distribution components
X-ray Tubes	Monte Carlo x-ray tube simulation for CBCT: A statistical analysis of the photon distribution components
xerostomia	The feasibility of outcome-based treatment planning strategy to improve xerostomia symptom in head and neck cancer patients Normalized MR-based radiomics to predict xerostomia in head and neck cancer Understanding the influence of spatial radiation dose patterns on xerostomia: what they might be telling us.
XNAT	P112: Secure-DICOM-Uploader: A platform for anonymising and transferring imaging data from hospital sites to remote repositories
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Yb-169	Monte Carlo dosimetry of a custom-made 169Yb source for intensity modulated brachytherapy