Session

Overview: The radiation therapy world moves towards modern approaches of big data analysis, automation, artificial intelligence, model-based treatment planning and multi-criteria optimisation. This symposium is meant to share current developments in these fields in brachytherapy with a strong link to clinical practice. A first focus is on large databases used for automated procedures in interventional radiotherapy with a glimpse on national and international regulations and quality assurance in data storage and usage. This is followed by how artificial intelligence can play a role in the general workflow of brachytherapy when it comes to pre-planning, delineation, reconstruction and planning (protocol- or example-based). We will discuss with examples of implemented multicriteria optimization for HDR prostate and cervix cancer brachytherapy. Detailed experience with the introduction of automated treatment planning will be shared with the main focus on its challenges and how to overcome them.