%0 Journal Article
%T Dosiomics-based detection of dose distribution variations in helical tomotherapy for prostate cancer patients: influence of treatment plan parameters.
%A Mirzaeiyan M
%A Akhavan A
%A Hemati S
%A Etehadtavakol M
%A Amouheidari A
%A Adibi A
%A Khanahmad H
%A Sharifonnasabi Z
%A Shokrani P
%J Phys Eng Sci Med
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%N 0
%D 2024 Jul 30
%M 39080209
%F 7.099
%R 10.1007/s13246-024-01463-4
%X The stability of dosiomics features (DFs) and dose-volume histogram (DVH) parameters for detecting disparities in helical tomotherapy planned dose distributions was assessed. Treatment plans of 18 prostate patients were recalculated using the followings: field width (WF) (2.5 vs. 5), pitch factor (PF) (0.433 vs. 0.444), and modulation factor (MF) (2.5 vs. 3). From each of the eight plans per patient, ninety-three original and 744 wavelet-based DFs were extracted, using 3D-Slicer software, across six regions including: target volume (PTV), pelvic lymph nodes (PTV-LN), PTV + PTV-LN (PTV-All), one cm rind around PTV-All (PTV-Ring), rectum, and bladder. For the resulting DFs and DVH parameters, the coefficient of variation (CV) was calculated, and using hierarchical clustering, the features were classified into low/high variability. The significance of parameters on instability was analyzed by a three-way analysis of variance. All DF's were stable in PTV, PTV-LN, and PTV-Ring (average CV (   CV ¯ )    ≤ 0.36). Only one feature in the bladder (  CV ¯   = 0.9), rectum (  CV ¯   = 0.4), and PTV-All (  CV ¯   = 0.37) were considered unstable due to change in MF in the bladder and WF in the PTV-All. The value of  CV ¯  for the wavelet features was much higher than that for the original features. Out of 225 unstable wavelet features, 84 features had  CV ¯   ≥ 1. The CVs for all the DVHs remained very small (  CV ¯  < 0.06). This study highlights that the sensitivity of DFs to changes in tomotherapy planning parameters is influenced by the region and the DFs, particularly wavelet features, surpassing the effectiveness of DVHs.