Using collected patient’s data to configure treatment plans for new patients in radiotherapy

Nowadays around 50% of all patients diagnosed with cancer are treated with radiotherapy. Radiotherapy uses ionizing beams to irradiate the tumour. This radiation damages and destroys cells, such that it is impossible for this cell to grow and divide. When the tumour is irradiated, the surrounding healthy tissues gets damaged as well. The goal is...

Multicriteria Optimization for Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy is one of the main treatments for cancer, and a multi-disciplinary field of research, mostly involving medicine, physics and mathematics. The focus of this thesis lies in improvements for the treatment planning, which is a multi-criteria process. We have been constructing a new method to form the Pareto front for certain objectives....