Predicting Radiotherapy Patient Outcomes with Real-Time Clinical Data Using Mathematical Modelling

© 2024. The Author(s)..

Longitudinal tumour volume data from head-and-neck cancer patients show that tumours of comparable pre-treatment size and stage may respond very differently to the same radiotherapy fractionation protocol. Mathematical models are often proposed to predict treatment outcome in this context, and have the potential to guide clinical decision-making and inform personalised fractionation protocols. Hindering effective use of models in this context is the sparsity of clinical measurements juxtaposed with the model complexity required to produce the full range of possible patient responses. In this work, we present a compartment model of tumour volume and tumour composition, which, despite relative simplicity, is capable of producing a wide range of patient responses. We then develop novel statistical methodology and leverage a cohort of existing clinical data to produce a predictive model of both tumour volume progression and the associated level of uncertainty that evolves throughout a patient's course of treatment. To capture inter-patient variability, all model parameters are patient specific, with a bootstrap particle filter-like Bayesian approach developed to model a set of training data as prior knowledge. We validate our approach against a subset of unseen data, and demonstrate both the predictive ability of our trained model and its limitations.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: Bull Math Biol. 2024 Feb 28;86(4):35. - PMID 38416252

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:86

Enthalten in:

Bulletin of mathematical biology - 86(2024), 2 vom: 18. Jan., Seite 19

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Browning, Alexander P [VerfasserIn]
Lewin, Thomas D [VerfasserIn]
Baker, Ruth E [VerfasserIn]
Maini, Philip K [VerfasserIn]
Moros, Eduardo G [VerfasserIn]
Caudell, Jimmy [VerfasserIn]
Byrne, Helen M [VerfasserIn]
Enderling, Heiko [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Head-and-neck cancer
Heterogeneity
Journal Article
Patient variability
Predictive model
Radiotherapy
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Uncertainty

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Date Completed 22.01.2024

Date Revised 08.03.2024

published: Electronic

ErratumIn: Bull Math Biol. 2024 Feb 28;86(4):35. - PMID 38416252

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11538-023-01246-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367289296