The General Hospital Corporation

Elekta, Inc.

Ali Ajdari

Maria Luiza Bondar

Thomas Bortfeld

Matthieu Frédéric Bal

In providing radiation therapy (RT) support, a patient specific toxicity risk is estimated for a RT side effect using a Bayesian network that receives as inputs values of biomarkers of the patient. A patient-specific RT plan is optimized with respect to parameters including the patient-specific toxicity risk. During delivery of RT according to the plan, at least one updated value is received for the biomarkers of the patient, and an updated patient-specific toxicity risk is estimated using the Bayesian network with the updated value(s). The Bayesian network biomarker nodes and a toxicity risk node representing the patient specific toxicity risk, and directed arcs with arc weights representing strengths of interdependencies between the nodes connected by the directed arcs. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided via which a clinician may interact with the Bayesian network. A test recommendation may be initiated or updated for scheduling of a patient test based on the updated patient-specific toxicity risk.

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BOSTON, MA, United States of America

Ali Ajdari