Personalized Radiotherapy Planning for Glioma Using Multimodal Bayesian Model Calibration

07/02/2018
by   Jana Lipkova, et al.
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Existing radiotherapy (RT) plans for brain tumors derive from population studies and scarcely account for patient-specific conditions. We propose a personalized RT design through the combination of patient multimodal medical scans and state-of-the-art computational tumor models. Our method integrates complementary information from high-resolution MRI scans and highly specific FET-PET metabolic maps to infer tumor cell density in glioma patients. The present methodology relies on data from a single time point and thus is applicable to standard clinical settings. The Bayesian framework integrates information across multiple imaging modalities, quantifies imaging and modelling uncertainties, and predicts patient-specific tumor cell density with confidence intervals. The computational cost of Bayesian inference is reduced by advanced sampling algorithms and parallel software. An initial clinical population study shows that the RT plans generated from the inferred tumor cell infiltration maps spare more healthy tissue thereby reducing radiation toxicity while yielding comparable accuracy with standard RT protocols. Moreover, the inferred regions of high tumor cell density coincide with the tumor radio-resistant areas, providing guidance for personalized dose escalation. The proposed integration of data and models provides a robust, non-invasive tool to assist personalized RT planning.

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