Patent ID: 11865366
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 18:
19. The system of claim 18,
wherein the set of directives includes information regarding planned radiation dose, planned clinical goals, planned clinical goal values, reference patient model, reference treatment plan, list of influencer structures, and one or more reference images; and
the applying of the series of automated steps includes:
generating a treatment session image of a portion of the patient, the treatment session image containing an anatomy of interest;
generating one or more influencer structures from the list of influencer structures on the treatment session image;
evaluating the generated influencer structures based on one or more directives of the set of directives;
propagating target structures of a reference image to the treatment session image upon acceptance of the generated influencer structures;
evaluating the propagated target structures based on one or more directives of the set of directives; and
upon acceptance of the propagated target structures, accepting the treatment session image including the influencer structures and the propagated target structures as the session patient model,

the target structures including:
a first set of target structures representing contours of a primary tumor; and
a second set of target structures representing contours of one or more primarily affected organs (OARs), and

the influencer structures including:
a first set of influencer structures representing contours of one or more organs that affect one or more of a shape, size or location of one or more of the target structures; and
a second set of influencer structures representing contours of non-volumetric structures.