(Monday, 4/9/2018) 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Marquis Ballroom 5-8
Major vendors of treatment planning systems are providing application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow not only reading information from the treatment planning system (TPS) to support reporting but also writing data back to support automated creation and optimization of treatment plans. This opens the door for end users to make tremendous gains in efficiency, consistency and quality. In this session we will explore examples of how two institutions are using these API capabilities to improve planning and QA processes for their own and other clinics. Development of automated head and neck planning approaches supporting clinical practice in the US and extension to support developing countries will be presented. Recently development of new plan evaluation tools using statistical dose volume histogram dashboard visualizations and metrics have been reported. Use of these in conjunction with automated planning approaches to use historical context to improve plan evaluation and teaching will be discussed. These will show that the future is now for combining standardizations, statistics and code to bring automation into our planning processes.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand a practical implementation of automation for radiotherapy treatment planning
2. Understand a practical implementation of automation for treatment plan evaluation and QA
3. Be able to discuss the likely future of automation in radiotherapy
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: NCI and Varian Medical Systems.
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