A radiotherapy treatment consists in a given number of radiation sessions, one for each (working) day, which should start before a given due date. Patients are usually classified into classes of urgency having different deadlines and number of sessions. Waiting time is the main critical issue in the management of a radiotherapy health system. After deriving a general problem statement from the case studies reported in the literature, we present three online optimisation algorithms that try to exploit the particular structure of the solution, and we compare their results with two baseline online algorithms.

Pattern-Based Online Algorithms for a General Patient-Centred Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem

Duma D.;
2020-01-01

Abstract

A radiotherapy treatment consists in a given number of radiation sessions, one for each (working) day, which should start before a given due date. Patients are usually classified into classes of urgency having different deadlines and number of sessions. Waiting time is the main critical issue in the management of a radiotherapy health system. After deriving a general problem statement from the case studies reported in the literature, we present three online optimisation algorithms that try to exploit the particular structure of the solution, and we compare their results with two baseline online algorithms.
2020
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics
Inglese
4th International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering, HCSE 2019
2019
Montréal, Canada
Internazionale
316
251
262
12
978-3-030-39693-0
978-3-030-39694-7
Springer
Online algorithm, Radiotherapy, Scheduling
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-39694-7_20
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none
Aringhieri, R.; Duma, D.; Squillace, G.
273
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
3
4 Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)::4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno
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