Dysphagia optimized knowledge‐based planning for head and neck cancer
Targeted addition of a small number of cases with individually contoured constrictors to an existing model significantly improved sparing of swallowing structures, without compromising overall plan quality or increasing organs-at-risk (OAR) doses beyond clinical thresholds, highlighting that modest, focused data augmentation can yield clinically meaningful gains.
Authors
- Austin Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2302-6417)
- Shadab Momin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1640-3643)
- Eduard Schreibmann
- Soumon Rudra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1411-4880)
- Kirk Luca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3781-6666)
- Bill Stokes
- B. Hopkins
- Justin Roper
- Tu Thi
- Xiaofeng Yang
- Amit Jethanandani
- James Bates
Institutions
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale (US)
- Emory University (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
- Published
- 2026-02-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.70519
- Primary Topic
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00