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Oncol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Purpose<\/jats:title><jats:p>Discrepancies between planned and delivered dose to GI structures during radiation therapy (RT) of liver cancer may hamper the prediction of treatment outcomes. The purpose of this study is to develop a streamlined workflow for dose accumulation in a treatment planning system (TPS) during liver image-guided RT and to assess its accuracy when using different deformable image registration (DIR) algorithms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Fifty-six patients with primary and metastatic liver cancer treated with external beam radiotherapy guided by daily CT-on-rails (CTOR) were retrospectively analyzed. The liver, stomach and duodenum contours were auto-segmented on all planning CTs and daily CTORs using deep-learning methods. Dose accumulation was performed for each patient using scripting functionalities of the TPS and considering three available DIR algorithms based on: (i) image intensities only; (ii) intensities + contours; (iii) a biomechanical model (contours only). Planned and accumulated doses were converted to equivalent dose in 2Gy (EQD2) and normal tissue complication probabilities (NTCP) were calculated for the stomach and duodenum. Dosimetric indexes for the normal liver, GTV, stomach and duodenum and the NTCP values were exported from the TPS for analysis of the discrepancies between planned and the different accumulated doses.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Deep learning segmentation of the stomach and duodenum enabled considerable acceleration of the dose accumulation process for the 56 patients. Differences between accumulated and planned doses were analyzed considering the 3 DIR methods. For the normal liver, stomach and duodenum, the distribution of the 56 differences in maximum doses (D2%) presented a significantly higher variance when a contour-driven DIR method was used instead of the intensity only-based method. Comparing the two contour-driven DIR methods, differences in accumulated minimum doses (D98%) in the GTV were &amp;gt;2Gy for 15 (27%) of the patients. Considering accumulated dose instead of planned dose in standard NTCP models of the duodenum demonstrated a high sensitivity of the duodenum toxicity risk to these dose discrepancies, whereas smaller variations were observed for the stomach.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study demonstrated a successful implementation of an automatic workflow for dose accumulation during liver cancer RT in a commercial TPS. 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