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Distributed Evolutionary Design of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment Plans
Distributed Evolution, Island population mode, Farmer-worker model,
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is a modern and still evolving technique
used to treat a variety of solid malignant cells in a well-defined volume
including breast, liver, pancreas, prostate or uterine broids or other general
soft-tissue sarcomas. HIFU treatments allow a noninvasive and non-ionising
approach when compared to more conventional cancer treatments, such as radio and
chemo-therapy or open surgery, which can lead to a multitude of complications
after the treatment. In recent years, a realistic thermal model accounting for
patient-specific materials to design HIFU treatment plans was introduced, along
with an evolutionary strategy to optimize them. However, the execution times of
this model is too prohibitive to allow for a routine use. This paper presents
a comparison of two distinct distributed evolutionary models employing a further
optimized fitness model. The experiments show up to 6 times decrease in the
evolution time. These improvements allowed to investigate a new real-life based
benchmark and use-case.
@inproceedings{BUT175813,
author="Jakub {Chlebík} and Jiří {Jaroš}",
title="Distributed Evolutionary Design of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment Plans",
booktitle="IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics",
year="2021",
pages="2203--2208",
publisher="IEEE Circuits and Systems Society",
address="Melbourne",
doi="10.1109/SMC52423.2021.9658580",
isbn="978-1-6654-4207-7",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12560/"
}