Optimization

Robotic path-finding in inverse treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery with continuous dose delivery
Purpose: Continuous dose delivery in radiation therapy treatments has been shown to decrease total treatment time while improving the …
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Robotic path-finding in inverse treatment planning with continuous dose delivery for stereotactic radiosurgery
Optimization approaches for treatment planning in two novel high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy techniques, direction-modulation …
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A fast beam orientation optimization method that enforces geometric constraints in IMRT for total marrow irradiation
The beam orientation optimization (BOO) problem for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is the selection of beams for …
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An examination of Benders' decomposition approaches in large-scale healthcare optimization problems
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) offers localized and minimally invasive thermal ablation of small-to-medium sized inoperable superficial …
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Deriving pandemic disease mitigation strategies by mining social contact networks
In this chapter we propose a robust approach to deriving disease mitigation strategies from contact networks that are generated from …
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Efficiently identifying critical nodes in large complex networks
The critical node detection problem (CNDP) aims to fragment a graph G=(V,E) by removing a set of vertices R with cardinality |R|≤k, …
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Interactive visual guidance for automated stereotactic radiosurgery treatment planning
The growing technology industry has led to the steady enhancement of expert systems, often at the cost of increased complexity for the …
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Network robustness versus multi-strategy sequential attack
We examine the robustness of networks under attack when the attacker sequentially selects from a number of different attack strategies, …
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Skeletonization for isocentre selection in Gamma Knife® Perfexion™
Gamma Knife® Perfexion™ (PFX) is used for delivering radiosurgery plans to treat lesions and tumours in the brain by means of …
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The Operations Research Revolution
The TutORials track at INFORMS is designed to give experts in the operations research and management science fields an expanded forum …
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