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ArticleEJNMMI physics2023

A machine learning-based model for a dose point kernel calculation.

Ignacio Scarinci, Mauro Valente, Pedro Pérez

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Ignacio ScarinciInstituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (IFEG), CONICET, Av. Medina Allende s/n, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina.
Mauro Valente *Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (IFEG), CONICET, Av. Medina Allende s/n, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina. mauro.valente@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8099-0125
Pedro Pérez *Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (IFEG), CONICET, Av. Medina Allende s/n, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina.

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Imaging and Dosimetry of Yttrium-90 for Personalized Cancer TreatmentR01EB022075 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI DEWARAJA, YUNI K · 2016 to 2023
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NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022075
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Abstract

purposeAbsorbed dose calculation by kernel convolution requires the prior determination of dose point kernels (DPK). This study reports on the design, implementation, and test of a multi-target regressor approach to generate the DPKs for monoenergetic sources and a model to obtain DPKs for beta emitters.

methodsDPK for monoenergetic electron sources were calculated using the FLUKA Monte Carlo (MC) code for many materials of clinical interest and initial energies ranging from 10 to 3000 keV. Regressor Chains (RC) with three different coefficients regularization/shrinkage models were used as base regressors. Electron monoenergetic scaled DPKs (sDPKs) were used to assess the corresponding sDPKs for beta emitters typically used in nuclear medicine, which were compared against reference published data. Finally, the beta emitters sDPK were applied to a patient-specific case calculating the Voxel Dose Kernel (VDK) for a hepatic radioembolization treatment with [Formula: see text]Y.

resultsThe three trained machine learning models demonstrated a promising capacity to predict the sDPK for both monoenergetic emissions and beta emitters of clinical interest attaining differences lower than [Formula: see text] in the mean average percentage error (MAPE) as compared with previous studies. Furthermore, differences lower than [Formula: see text] were obtained for the absorbed dose in patient-specific dosimetry comparing against full stochastic MC calculations.

conclusionAn ML model was developed to assess dosimetry calculations in nuclear medicine. The implemented approach has shown the capacity to accurately predict the sDPK for monoenergetic beta sources in a wide range of energy in different materials. The ML model to calculate the sDPK for beta-emitting radionuclides allowed to obtain VDK useful to achieve reliable patient-specific absorbed dose distributions required short computation times.

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Beta emittersDose point kernelInternal dosimetryMachine learning

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PMID37358735
PMCPMC10293553

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