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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2020
Siemens Healthineers International Ag, Steinhausen, CH;
Janne I. Nord, Espoo, FI;
Hannu Laaksonen, Espoo, FI;
Jan Schreier, Helsinki, FI;
Jarkko Y. Peltola, Tuusula, FI;
Christopher Boylan, Helsinki, FI;
Siemens Healthineers International AG, Steinhausen, CH;
Abstract
A control circuit accesses historical information regarding previously optimized radiation treatment plans for different patients and processes that information to determine the relative importance of different clinical goals. The circuit then facilitates development of a particular plan for a particular patient as a function of the relative importance of the clinical goals. By one approach the control circuit can be configured as a radiation treatment plan recommendation resource that accesses a database of radiation treatment plan formulation content items including at least one of a radiation treatment plan template, an auto-planning algorithm, and an auto-segmentation algorithm. By one approach the control circuit can be configured to, when presenting automatically-generated radiation treatment plans to a user, also co-present an opportunity for the user to signal to a remote entity that none of the plans are acceptable and that the user will instead employ a user-generated plan for the particular patient.