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One-for-All Adaptive Radiotherapy Planning Agent: A Foundation Framework for Daily CBCT-guided Radiotherapy.

Shaoyan Pan, Kirk Jon Luca, Yuan Gao, Shansong Wang, Mingzhe Hu, Ryan Sanford, Mojtaba Safari, Justin Roper, Zhen Tian, Tonghe Wang and 1 more

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11 authors.

Shaoyan PanDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Kirk Jon LucaDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Yuan GaoDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Shansong WangDepartment of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Mingzhe HuDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Ryan SanfordDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Mojtaba SafariDepartment of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Justin RoperDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Zhen TianDepartment of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Tonghe WangDepartment of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Xiaofeng YangDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
eXtended Modular ANthropomorphic (XMAN) phantom for Imaging and Treatment Optimization in Radiotherapy.R01EB032680 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI REN, LEI, YANG, XIAOFENG · 2022 to 2025
$2.4M
Real-time Volumetric Imaging for Motion Management and Dose Delivery VerificationR01CA272991 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Zhen Tian, Xiaofeng Yang · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
Intelligent and Personalized Online Adaptive Proton TherapyR01DE033512 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Zhen Tian, Xiaofeng Yang · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
Artificial Intelligence Driven Platform for PET/MR ImagingR56EB033332 · NIBIB · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI MAO, HUI, YANG, XIAOFENG · 2022 to 2022
$764k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NCI NIH HHS R01 CA272991NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB032680NIBIB NIH HHS R56 EB033332NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE033512
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive radiotherapy treatment planning seeks to enable accurate and individualized cancer care by ensuring that radiation dose conforms to the target while minimizing exposure to surrounding healthy tissues. Its success depends on accurate characterization of patient-specific anatomy at the time of treatment, whereas standard radiotherapy planning generally uses one pretreatment CT dataset for the entire treatment course, despite ongoing changes in disease extent and internal organ position. While daily adaptive radiotherapy (ART) can mitigate these discrepancies, it remains clinically impractical as each patient and fraction requires a bespoke, labor-intensive workflow. This process necessitates complex clinical decision-making-ranging from simple registration to a complete plan redesign involving CT collection, re-segmentation, and dose optimization-creating an unsustainable burden on hospital resources. In this work, we introduce the One-for-All Adaptive Radiotherapy Planning Agent, a unified foundation-model-based system that performs complete, treatment-specific online adaptive planning directly from daily cone-beam CT in under two minutes. The agent first autonomously predicts all essential planning components, including synthetic CT generation, multimodal alignment, and tumor/organ segmentation. It then intelligently leverages these outputs to execute the final clinical plan design, providing a comprehensive, automated solution for daily treatment. We also demonstrate that the agent enables clinicians to define planning with intent and intervene at critical decision points, ensuring a "human-in-the-loop" framework that generates acceptable plans before final approval. Evaluated on multiple datasets spanning head-and-neck, lung, abdominal, and prostate cancers with both photon and proton therapy, the proposed framework achieves clinically acceptable accuracy and plan quality comparable to clinically generated treatment plans, with target dose errors (

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Dose Distribution PredictionRadiotherapy Agentic AIRadiotherapy Foundation ModelRegistrationSegmentationUnsupervised CT Synthesis

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PMID42523498
PMCPMC13405419

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