Computational Learning Theory

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Fig. 2.1 Computational modeling vs. statistical analysis (Adapted from [5]) Machine learning is a branch of computational modeling that inherited many of its properties and utilizes statistical modeling techniques as…

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Bioinformatics of Treatment Response

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Fig. 16.1 Radiotherapy treatment involves complex interaction of physical, biological, and clinical factors. The successful informatics approach should be able to resolve this interaction “puzzle” in the observed treatment outcome…

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Knowledge-Based Treatment Planning

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Fig. 10.1 Summary of a typical treatment planning process (The image is courtesy M. Lewis from imPACT) More recently, there has been interest in using prior treatment planning information, referred…

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Informatics in Radiation Oncology

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Fig. 5.1 With each step along the process, more information is created and collected which is associated with the patient The imaging data, accompanied by identifiers, is then transferred to…

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Image-Based Motion Correction

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Fig. 12.1 Cast the gating problem (a) into a binary classification problem (b) (Reprint from Cui et al. [2]) One major issue with learning from images is the large dimensionality…

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Treatment Delivery Validation

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Fig. 15.1 (a) The average chart for the clinical case. Subgroup size of four is used to verify the constancy of the flatness and symmetry. (b) The range chart of…

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What Is Machine Learning?

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Fig. 1.1 Categories of machine learning algorithms according to training data nature From a concept learning perspective, machine learning can be categorized into transductive and inductive learning [27]. Transductive learning…

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Cancer Statistics

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Fig. 1 Lung cancer incidence and mortality rates by sex and age, United States, 2006–2010. Rates are per 100,000 and age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population During 2006–2010, the…

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