A concept of equivalent‐volume concordance coefficient for comparing target volumes in radiotherapy
Xue Ou, Xianfei Qin, Huaye Wei, Lianrong Zheng, Di Huang, Qiulu Zhong, Kai Hu, Qinghua Du · 2026
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Description
Xue Ou and co-authors put forward a new measure in 2026 for comparing target volumes in radiation therapy. Simple checks of volume alone miss where the parts that do not overlap sit in space. They also miss the dose fall off around the target. The new measure aims to take both the dose need and the spatial link between two volumes into account.
The team built the measure with expansion steps and set operations, then tested it on dose data from twenty treatment plans. They suggest a reference distance of one centimeter and a penalty value of one for use in practice. In their tests, the measure set apart cases that older scores handled less well and gave results the authors call reasonable.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xue Ou, Xianfei Qin, Huaye Wei, Lianrong Zheng, Di Huang, Qiulu Zhong, Kai Hu, Qinghua Du |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |