Publication detail

Distributed Evolutionary Design of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment Plans

CHLEBÍK, J. JAROŠ, J.

Original Title

Distributed Evolutionary Design of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment Plans

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original 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.

Keywords

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

Authors

CHLEBÍK, J.; JAROŠ, J.

Released

8. 10. 2021

Publisher

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Location

Melbourne

ISBN

978-1-6654-4207-7

Book

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Pages from

2203

Pages to

2208

Pages count

6

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12560/

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/"
}