Extending SliceRT EBP Module - RTPlan recalculation capabilities and import-export infrastructure

[LiBu981]

Draft Status

Ready

Category

Infrastructure

Key Investigators

• Lina Bucher (KIT & DKFZ, Germany)
• Maria Francesca Spadea (KIT, Germany)
• Niklas Wahl (DKFZ, Germany)
• Csaba Pintér (EBATINCA, Spain)

Project Description

Recent work on SlicerRT's EBP module has focused on its inverse planning infrastructure for dose calculation and plan optimization, integrating the multi-modality treatment planning toolkit pyRadPlan (see https://github.com/e0404/pyRadPlan).

Now we want to further extend the module's forward planning capabilities as well as its export and import features.

Our overall goal is to establish a well-integrated treatment planning tool in Slicer, that remains customizable and user-friendly.

Objective

1. RTPlan recalculation: Advance the pyRadPlan dose engine for forward calculations on loaded plans.
2. Import/Export Features: Build infrastructure for saving and loading dose influence matrices and objectives.

Approach and Plan

1. RTPlan recalculation: Implement handling of loaded MLC shapes (photon plan), spot positions (ion plan) and machine specifications in the pyRadPlan dose engine.
2. Import/Export Features: Revise storing of the dose influence matrices (currently beam-wise) and develop method for exporting and reloading into plan. Include saving/exporting of the user-specified objectives table in the optimization workflow.

Progress and Next Steps

1. Describe specific steps you have actually done.

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Background and References

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[ferdymercury]

Great idea! Maybe it would be nice to take as benchmark patients from the TROTS open-source dataset, that are available in DICOM format (both the CT, RTstruct and the RTplan) https://github.com/SebastiaanBreedveld/TROTS/tree/master/Scripts%20DICOM
That way it would be an end-to-end test

A bit related for forward planning: SlicerRt/SlicerRT#293

[sjh26]

@LiBu981 Let me know if this page is ready to go

[LiBu981]

@sjh26 Yes, thank you, it is ready 👍

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