LEARN: Learning Environment for Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy New Technology

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LEARN: Learning Environment for Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy New Technology

Study Purpose

This study will develop a whole-of-body markerless tracking method for measuring the motion of the tumour and surrounding organs during radiation therapy to enable real-time image guidance. Routinely acquired patient data will be used to improve the training, testing and accuracy of a whole-of-body markerless tracking method. When the markerless tracking method is sufficiently advanced, according to the PI of each of the data collection sites, the markerless tracking method will be run in parallel to, but not intervening with, patient treatments during data acquisition.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	No
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Observational
Eligible Ages	18 Years and Over
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Will receive radiation therapy for brain, breast, head and neck, kidney, liver, pancreas, prostate, spine cancer treatment or cardiac arrhythmia treatment at a participating centre.

- Will receive CT planning, and a cone beam CT scan for at least one fraction of radiation therapy.

- Will receive intrafraction x-ray imaging for the liver, pancreas, prostate, spine cancer treatment or cardiac arrhythmia treatment.

As intrafraction imaging is not common standard of care for brain, breast, head and neck and kidney cancer treatments there is no requirement to have intrafraction x-ray imaging data for these anatomical sites.

- Provides written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Less than 18 years of age

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT05184790
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	University of Sydney
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Paul Keall
Principal Investigator Affiliation	Professor
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Not yet recruiting
Countries	Australia
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Breast Cancer, Prostatic Cancer, Brain Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer, Liver Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Spinal Neoplasm

Additional Details

This observational study will access routinely acquired radiation therapy treatment data from 300 patients including brain, breast, head and neck, kidney, liver, pancreas, prostate, spine and cardiac anatomic sites. At least 30 patients will be recruited from each anatomic site to enable sufficient data for the markerless tracking method training, testing and validation. The clinical data will be used to develop, train, test and validate a markerless target tracking method. After the treatment, the ground truth and the variability in the ground truth will be computed. The patient images, the markerless tracking results, the ground truth and the variability will be uploaded to an in-house developed clinical trial learning system. Uploading additional data to the learning system automatically triggers the model building of the deep learning system. In this manner, the learning system gets both more accurate and more robust with each patient accrued. As the patient data accrues, the primary hypothesis of targeting accuracy can be tested. The developed markerless tracking software will be applied by study personnel to the treatment imaging data for each anatomic site using five-fold cross-validation where 80% of the data is used for training and the remaining unseen 20% of the data is used for testing. Target positions produced by the markerless tracking will be compared with a 'ground truth'.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

: Brain cancer

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of brain cancer.

: Breast cancer

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of breast cancer.

: Head and neck cancer

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of head and neck cancer.

: Kidney cancer

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of kidney cancer.

: Liver cancer

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of liver cancer.

: Pancreatic cancer

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of pancreatic cancer.

: Prostatic cancer

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of prostate cancer.

: Spinal neoplasm

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of spinal cancer.

: Cardiac arrhythmia

Patients having radiation therapy for treatment of cardiac arrhythmia

Interventions

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