https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Prostate external beam radiotherapy combined with high-dose-rate brachytherapy: dose-volume parameters from deformably-registered plans correlate with late gastrointestinal complications https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29346 Wed 23 Feb 2022 16:04:41 AEDT ]]> Pathological relationships involving iron and myelin may constitute a shared mechanism linking various rare and common brain diseases https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30189 Hfe−/−xTfr2mut mouse model. This was accompanied by altered expression of a group of myelin-related genes, including a suite of genes causatively linked to the rare disease family ‘neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation’ (NBIA). Expanded data mining and ontological analyses have now identified additional myelin-related transcriptome changes in response to brain iron loading. Concordance between the mouse transcriptome changes and human myelin-related gene expression networks in normal and NBIA basal ganglia testifies to potential clinical relevance. These analyses implicate, among others, genes linked to various rare central hypomyelinating leukodystrophies and peripheral neuropathies including Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease as well as genes linked to other rare neurological diseases such as Niemann-Pick disease. The findings may help understand interrelationships of iron and myelin in more common conditions such as hemochromatosis, multiple sclerosis and various psychiatric disorders.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 16:58:00 AEST ]]> Registering prostate external beam radiotherapy with a boost from high-dose-rate brachytherapy: a comparative evaluation of deformable registration algorithms https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25925 Wed 11 Apr 2018 14:57:01 AEST ]]> Spatial features of dose-surface maps from deformably-registered plans correlate with late gastrointestinal complications https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31828 Wed 09 Mar 2022 16:00:57 AEDT ]]> Accumulation of rectum dose-volume metrics for prostate external beam radiotherapy combined with brachytherapy: evaluating deformably registered dose distribution addition using parameter-based addition https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34511 0.1cc, D1cc, D2cc and D10cc were calculated in two ways. (i) Parameter-adding: the EBRT DVH parameters (or the EBRT prescription dose) were added to the unregistered HDR-BT DVH parameters. (ii) Distribution-adding: the parameters were extracted after the EBRT doses were 3D-summed with the registered HDR-BT doses. Resulting differences between the parameters were investigated. Results: The D0.1cc, D1cc and D2cc from parameter-adding were 21.3% (P < 0.001), 6.3% (P < 0.001) and 3.5% (P < 0.001) smaller than those from distribution-adding. The D10cc was 2.2% (P=0.015) larger for distribution-adding. Conclusion: Distribution-adding was confounded by unsystematic inter/intra-observer rectum-contouring errors and registration accuracy near the anterior rectal wall. Consequently, clinical use of distribution-adding to assess rectal doses requires careful contour and registration evaluation.]]> Thu 28 Oct 2021 13:04:40 AEDT ]]> Modeling urinary dysfunction after external beam radiation therapy of the prostate using bladder dose-surface maps: evidence of spatially variable response of the bladder surface https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34316 Thu 03 Feb 2022 12:21:50 AEDT ]]> Relationship between brain R₂ and liver and serum iron concentrations in elderly men https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:10479 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:09:15 AEDT ]]> Urinary symptoms following external beam radiotherapy of the prostate: Dose-symptom correlates with multiple-event and event-count models https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:22558 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:14:46 AEDT ]]> Statistical-learning strategies generate only modestly performing predictive models for urinary symptoms following external beam radiotherapy of the prostate: a comparison of conventional and machine-learning methods https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24849 0.6 while all haematuria endpoints and longitudinal incontinence models produced AUROC<0.6. Conclusions: Logistic regression and MARS were most likely to be the best-performing strategy for the prediction of urinary symptoms with elastic-net and random forest producing competitive results. The predictive power of the models was modest and endpoint-dependent. New features, including spatial dose maps, may be necessary to achieve better models.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:11:24 AEDT ]]>