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Fuzzy logic-based models and algorithms have been implemented at three steps, and the obtained results are compared with commonly available strategies. Required data are (i) real patients treated with Synchrony Cyberknife system at Georgetown University Hospital for real-time tumor motion prediction, (ii) computed tomography images taken from real patients for geometrical setup, and also (iii) tomography images of an anthropomorphic phantom for tumor delineation process. In real-time tumor tracking, the targeting error averages of the fuzzy correlation model in comparison with the Cyberknife modeler are 4.57 mm and 8.97 mm, respectively, for a given patient that shows remarkable error reduction. In the case of patient geometrical setup, the fuzzy logic-based algorithm has better influence in comparing with the artificial neural network, while the setup error averages is reduced from 1.47 to 0.4432 mm using the fuzzy logic-based method, for a given patient. 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