The grant will seek to integrate automated planning into the treatment planning system and will include evaluation of automated plans by physicians from multiple institutions.

Drs. Mayadev and Meyers presented in Varian's Spotlighting Women in Radiation Oncology seminar series to over 350 attendees world-wide. Dr. Meyers spoke about knowledge-based automation in cervical brachytherapy, while Dr. Mayadev discussed novel treatment paradigms for cervical cancer, such as adaptive radiotherapy and immunotherapy.

Dr. Meyers presented on knowledge-based planning and UCSD’s standardized motion management workflow for lung and gastrointestinal tumors at the AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting in Orlando. Click the link below to find these presentations in the meeting program.

Peter, a Masters of Computer Science and Engineering student at UCSD, will be focused on deep learning dose prediction. Fritz, a recent physics graduate from UC Berkeley, will work to uncover the underlying sources of data variability that could impact brachytherapy dose predictions.

Assistant Professor Sandra Meyers PhD received a five-year K08 Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Her research proposal is focused on developing an automated treatment planning pipeline for brachytherapy of cervical cancer using deep learning, and prospectively implementing this tool in the clinic.

Assistant Professor Sandra Meyers PhD was a visiting professor at Yale New Haven Medical Center. She spoke on knowledge-based modeling for brachytherapy to students, fellows and faculty in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology.