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ArticleBiomedical engineering online2026

Desargues cloud TPS: a cloud-based automatic radiation treatment planning system for IMRT.

Jian Guo, Songbing Qin, Chenlei Guo, Meng Zhu, Yin Zhou, He Wang, Xiaoting Xu, Wei Zhan, Long Chen, Jie Ni and 10 more

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Jian Guo *Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.
Songbing Qin *Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.
Chenlei Guo *Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Meng ZhuQiusuo Health Technologies Inc., Suzhou, China.
Yin ZhouHomology Medical Technologies Inc., Ningbo, China.
He WangQiusuo Health Technologies Inc., Suzhou, China.
Xiaoting XuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.
Wei ZhanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.
Long ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.
Jie NiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China.
Yu TangQiusuo Health Technologies Inc., Suzhou, China.
Jun ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated People's Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Yi ShenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Soochow Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Suzhou, 215153, China.
Haibo ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Soochow Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Suzhou, 215153, China.
Kuo MenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Hui LiuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Yuning PanDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Jin YeQiusuo Health Technologies Inc., Suzhou, China.
Jian HuanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Affiliated Soochow Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Suzhou, 215153, China. huanjian@163.com.
Juying ZhouDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China. zhoujuyingsy@163.com.

Funding

Clinical Key Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Technology Project of Suzhou City LCZX202351Jiangsu Provincial Medical Key Discipline ZDXK202235Key Research and Development Project of Ningbo 2024Z046Key Research and Development Project of Ningbo 2024Z220National Key Research and Development Program of China 2022YFC2402303Zhejiang Provincial Leading Goose Plan Project 2025C02249(SD2)
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Abstract

purposeTo develop a cloud-based automated treatment planning system for intensity-modulated radiation therapy and evaluate its efficacy and safety for tumors in various anatomical sites under general clinical scenarios.

resultsAll the plans from both groups satisfy the PTV prescription dose coverage requirement of at least 95% of the PTV volume. The mean HI of plan A group and plan B group is 0.084 and 0.081, respectively, with no statistically significant difference from those of plan C group. The mean CI, PQM, OOT and POT are 0.806, 77.55. 410 s and 185 s for plan A group, and 0.841, 76.87, 515.1 s and 271.1 s for plan B group, which were significantly superior than those of plan C group except for the CI of plan A group. There is no statistically significant difference between the dose accuracies of plan B and plan C groups.

conclusionsIt is concluded that the overall efficacy and safety of the Desargues Cloud TPS are not significantly different to those of Varian Eclipse, while some efficacy indicators of plans generated from automatic planning without or with manual adjustments are even significantly superior to those of fully manual plans from Eclipse. The cloud-based automatic treatment planning additionally increase the efficiency of treatment planning process and facilitate the sharing of planning knowledge. MATERIALS AND

methodsThe cloud-based automatic radiation treatment planning system, Desargues Cloud TPS, was designed and developed based on browser/server mode, where all the computing intensive functions were deployed on the server and user interfaces were implemented on the web. The communication between the browser and the server was through the local area network (LAN) of a radiotherapy institution. The automatic treatment planning module adopted a hybrid of both knowledge-based planning (KBP) and protocol-based automatic iterative optimization (PB-AIO), consisting of three steps: beam angle optimization (BAO), beam fluence optimization (BFO) and machine parameter optimization (MPO). 53 patients from two institutions have been enrolled in a multi-center self-controlled clinical validation. For each patient, three IMRT plans were designed. The plan A and B were designed on Desargues Cloud TPS using automatic planning without and with manual adjustments, respectively. The plan C was designed on Varian Eclipse TPS using fully manual planning. The efficacy indicators were heterogeneous index, conformity index, plan quality metric, overall operation time and plan optimization time. The safety indicators were gamma indices of dose verification.

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Cloud ComputingRadiotherapy, Intensity-ModulatedRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedAutomationHumansRadiotherapy DosageAutomatic treatment planningCloud computingIMRTMulti-center clinical validationRadiotherapyRemote collaboration and consultation

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PMID41530840
PMCPMC12888112

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