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Record W1970773818 · doi:10.1088/0031-9155/47/17/304

On the de-noising of Monte Carlo calculated dose distributions

2002· article· en· W1970773818 on OpenAlexfundno aff
I. Kawrakow

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysics in Medicine and Biology · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Research Council Canada
KeywordsMonte Carlo methodSmoothingAlgorithmComputer scienceMathematicsMathematical optimizationStatistics

Abstract

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This paper presents an algorithm for de-noising Monte Carlo calculated dose distributions for use in radiation treatment planning. The algorithm is a three-dimensional generalization of a Savitzky-Golay digital filter and uses an adaptive smoothing window size to reduce the probability for systematic bias. The paper also introduces five accuracy criteria that are relevant for the expected clinical use of Monte Carlo techniques, which can be used to evaluate the performance of smoothing algorithms. Using these accuracy criteria it is demonstrated that the smoothing algorithm presented here decreases the uncertainty of Monte Carlo calculated dose distributions. The corresponding decrease in necessary particle tracks ranges from a factor of 2 to a factor of 20, depending on the accuracy criterion used. It is shown that very short Monte Carlo simulations combined with smoothing deliver satisfactory dose distributions and may therefore be extremely valuable for the initial trial and error phase of the radiation treatment planning process.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.117
GPT teacher head0.378
Teacher spread0.261 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations63
Published2002
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