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IMRT Beam Angle Optimization Project

Publications

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2015) “Does Beam Angle Optimization Really Matter for Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy?” Computational Science and Its Applications, O. Gervasi et al. (Eds.):, Part II, LNCS 9156, Part II, pp. 522-533 (pdf) 

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2015) "Noncoplanar beam angle optimization in IMRT treatment planning using pattern search methods" Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol 616, 012014 (pdf)

Dias, Joana, H. Rocha, B. C. Ferreira and M. C. Lopes (2014) “Simulated Annealing applied to IMRT Beam Angle Optimization: a computational study”, Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics (accepted for publication) (pdf)

Dias, Joana, Humberto Rocha, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2014) “IMRT Beam Angle Optimization using Differential Evolution”, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics, pp 22-29

 Soares, Inês, Joana Dias, Humberto Rocha, Maria do Carmo Lopes, Brígida Ferreira (2014) “Predicting Xerostomia induced by IMRT treatments: a logistic regression approach”, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics, pp 72-77

Ferreira, Brígida, Leila Khouri, Maria Do Carmo Lopes, Hervê Ferreira (2014) "RESPONSE, an Electronic Health Patient Information Software for Radiation
Therapy"
I. Lackovic and D. Vasic (eds.): 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, IFMBE Proceedings 45, pp. 691-694, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (pdf).

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2014) “A Two-Stage programming approach to fluence map optimization for intensity-modulated radiation treatment planning” I. Lackovic and D. Vasic (eds.): 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, IFMBE Proceedings 45, pp. 687-690, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (pdf).

Dias, Joana, Humberto Rocha, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2014) “IMRT Inverse Planning using Simulated Annealing” I. Lackovic and D. Vasic (eds.): 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, IFMBE Proceedings 45, pp. 699-702, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (pdf).

Dias, Joana, H. Rocha, B. C. Ferreira and M. C. Lopes (2014) “A genetic algorithm with neural network fitness function evaluation for IMRT beam angle optimization”, Central European Journal of Operations Research, 22 (3), pp 431-455 (pdf)

Dias, Joana, Humberto Rocha, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2014) “IMRT Beam Angle Optimization Using DDS with a Cross-Validation Approach for Configuration Selection” Computational Science and Its Applications, B. Murgante et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2014, Part II, LNCS 8580, pp. 1-16

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2014) “IMRT Beam Angle Optimization Using Non-descent Pattern Search Methods” Computational Science and Its Applications, B. Murgante et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2014, Part II, LNCS 8580, pp. 17–31

Rocha, Humberto, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2014) “IMRT Beam Angle Optimization Using Electromagnetism-Like Algorithm” Computational Science and Its Applications, B. Murgante et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2014, Part II, LNCS 8580, pp. 278–289

Dias, Joana, Humberto Rocha, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2013) “IMRT Beam Angle Optimization Using Dynamically Dimensioned Search”, I. Lacković et al. (eds.), The International Conference on Health Informatics, IFMBE Proceedings 42, pp 1-4 (pdf)

Dias, Joana, Rupa Jaganathan, Sanja Petrovic (2013) “Determining the number of beams in 3D conformal radiotherapy: a classification approach”, HCIST 2013 - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, Procedia Technology, 9, pp 958-967 (pdf)

H. Rocha, J. Dias, B. C. Ferreira and M. C. Lopes (2013) “Selection of intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment beam directions using radial basis functions within a pattern search methods framework”, Journal of Global Optimization,  vol. 57, pp 1065‑1089 (pdf)

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2013) “On the Global Optimization of the Beam Angle Optimization Problem in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy” L.M. Roa Romero (ed.), XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013, IFMBE Proceedings 41, 1374-1377 (pdf)

Rocha, Humberto, J. Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2013) “On the Use of A Priori Knowledge in Pattern Search Methods: Application to Beam Angle Optimization for Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy” Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2013), Murgante, B., Misra, S., Carlini, M., Torre, C., Nguyen, H.-Q., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O., Gervasi, O. (Eds.), LNCS, vol. 7971, pp 279-292 (pdf)

H. Rocha, J. Dias, B. C. Ferreira and M. C. Lopes (2013) “Pattern search methods framework for beam angle optimization in radiotherapy design”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 219 (23), pp 10853-10865 (pdf)

H. Rocha, J. Dias, B. C. Ferreira and M. C. Lopes (2013) “Beam angle optimization for intensity-modulated radiation therapy using a guided pattern search method”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 58, pp 2939-2953 (pdf)

H. Rocha, J. Dias, B. C. Ferreira and M. C. Lopes (2013) “Otimização do planeamento inverso de tratamentos em radioterapia”, Investigação Operacional em Ação: Casos de Aplicação  (in Portuguese, accepted for publication)

H. Rocha, J. Dias, B. C. Ferreira, and M. C. Lopes (2012) “Incorporating Radial Basis Functions in Pattern Search Methods: Application to Beam Angle Optimization in Radiotherapy Treatment Planning”, B. Murgante et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2012, Part III, LNCS 7335, pp. 1–16

H. Rocha,  Joana Dias, B. C. Ferreira, and M. C. Lopes (2012) “Discretization of optimal beamlet intensities in IMRT: a binary integer programming approach”, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 55, pp 1969-1980 (pdf)

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2012) “Beam Angle Optimization in IMRT using Pattern Search Methods: Initial Mesh-Size Considerations”, ICORES proceedings, 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, pp 355-360 (pdf).

H. Rocha, Joana Dias, B. C. Ferreira,  M. C. Lopes (2012) “Combinatorial optimization for an improved transition from fluence optimization to fluence delivery in IMRT treatment planning”, Optimization, vol 61, n. 8, pp 969-987 (pdf).

H. Rocha,Joana Dias, B. C. Ferreira, and M. C. Lopes (2011), “Influence of Sampling in Radiation Therapy Treatment Design”. B. Murgante et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2011, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6784, pp. 215–230, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (pdf)

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2011) “On the transition from fluence map optimization to fluence map delivery in intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment planning” Proceedings of the VII ALIO–EURO, Workshop on Applied Combinatorial Optimization, Porto, Portugal, May 4–6, 2011, pp 173-176