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Distributed Evolutionary Design of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment Plans

CHLEBÍK, J.; JAROŠ, J. Distributed Evolutionary Design of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment Plans. In IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Melbourne: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2021. p. 2203-2208. ISBN: 978-1-6654-4207-7.
Czech title
Distribuovaný evoluční návrh Ultrazvukových operačních plánů
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Keywords

Distributed Evolution, Island population mode, Farmer-worker model, High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound

Abstract

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.

Published
2021
Pages
2203–2208
Proceedings
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISBN
978-1-6654-4207-7
Publisher
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Place
Melbourne
DOI
UT WoS
000800532002030
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@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/"
}
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