Spatial Brain Tumor Concentration Estimation for Individualized Radiotherapy Planning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13811v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:58:38 GMT
• Title: Spatial Brain Tumor Concentration Estimation for Individualized Radiotherapy Planning
• Authors: Jonas Weidner, Michal Balcerak, Ivan Ezhov, André Datchev, Laurin Lux, Lucas Zimmerand Daniel Rueckert, Björn Menze, Benedikt Wiestler,
• Abstract summary: Biophysical modeling of brain tumors has emerged as a promising strategy for personalizing radiotherapy planning. We propose an efficient and direct method that utilizes soft physical constraints to estimate the tumor cell concentration from preoperative MRI of brain tumor patients.
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• Abstract: Biophysical modeling of brain tumors has emerged as a promising strategy for personalizing radiotherapy planning by estimating the otherwise hidden distribution of tumor cells within the brain. However, many existing state-of-the-art methods are computationally intensive, limiting their widespread translation into clinical practice. In this work, we propose an efficient and direct method that utilizes soft physical constraints to estimate the tumor cell concentration from preoperative MRI of brain tumor patients. Our approach optimizes a 3D tumor concentration field by simultaneously minimizing the difference between the observed MRI and a physically informed loss function. Compared to existing state-of-the-art techniques, our method significantly improves predicting tumor recurrence on two public datasets with a total of 192 patients while maintaining a clinically viable runtime of under one minute - a substantial reduction from the 30 minutes required by the current best approach. Furthermore, we showcase the generalizability of our framework by incorporating additional imaging information and physical constraints, highlighting its potential to translate to various medical diffusion phenomena with imperfect data.

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