Informatics in radiation oncology / edited by George Starkschall, R. Alfredo C. Siochi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starkschall, George.

Siochi, R. Alfredo C. (Ramon Alfredo Carvalho)

Series:

Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy Series

Imaging in medical diagnosis and therapy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Radiotherapy.

Cancer.

Oncology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2014.

Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reflecting the increased importance of the collaborations between radiation oncology and informatics professionals, Informatics in Radiation Oncology discusses the benefits of applying informatics principles to the processes within radiotherapy. It explores how treatment and imaging information is represented, stored, and retrieved as well as how this information relates to other patient data. The book deepens your knowledge of current and emerging information technology and informatics principles applied to radiation oncology so that all the data gathered-from laboratory results to medical images-can be fully exploited to make treatments more effective and processes more efficient. After introducing the basics of informatics and its connection to radiation oncology, the book examines the process of healthcare delivery in radiation oncology, the challenges of managing images in radiotherapy, and the burgeoning field of radiogenomics. It then presents teaching, clinical trials, and research tools and describes open access clinical imaging archives in radiotherapy, techniques for maximizing information from multimodality imaging, and the roles of images in treatment planning. It also looks at how informatics can improve treatment planning, the safety and efficiency of delivery systems, image-guided patient positioning, and patient assessment. The book concludes with discussions on how outcomes modeling evaluates the effectiveness of treatments, how quality control informatics improves the reliability of processes, and how to perform quality assurance on the informatics tools. With contributions from a host of top international experts in radiation oncology, medical physics, and informatics, this book leads the way in moving the field forward. It encourages you to find new ways of applying informatics to radiation oncology and help your patients in

their fight against cancer.

Contents:

Front Cover

Contents

Series Preface

Preface

Editors

Contributors

Chapter 1 - What Is Biomedical Informatics?

Chapter 2 - Ontology for Radiation Oncology

Chapter 3 - Web-Based Information Delivery

Chapter 4 - Electronic Medical Record

Chapter 5 - Toward a Terminology for Radiation Oncology

Chapter 6 - Informatics for Accessing Hospital Information Systems

Chapter 7 - Information Flow through the Radiation Oncology Process

Chapter 8 - Integrating Radiology with Radiation Oncology: Challenges and Opportunities

Chapter 9 - Image Management in Radiotherapy

Chapter 10 - Connectivity

Chapter 11 - Information Resources for Radiation Oncology

Chapter 12 - Radiogenomics: The Future of Personalized Radiation Therapy?

Chapter 13 - Teaching Support

Chapter 14 - Communication, Collaboration, IT, and Informatics Infrastructure for Clinical Trials

Chapter 15 - Research Data Management, Integration, and Security

Chapter 16 - Open-Source Informatics Tools for Radiotherapy Research

Chapter 17 - NCI Cancer Imaging Program: Imaging Informatics and Radiotherapy Implications

Chapter 18 - Informatics for Multimodality Imaging

Chapter 19 - Imaging for Radiation Treatment Planning

Chapter 20 - Evaluation of Treatment Plans

Chapter 21 - Human-Computer Interaction in Radiation Therapy

Chapter 22 - Informatics for Image-Guided Radiation Therapy

Chapter 23 - Patient Assessment Tools

Chapter 24 - Outcomes Modeling

Chapter 25 - Quality Assurance in Informatics

Chapter 26 - Quality Assurance and the Informatics Environment

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Starkschall, George Informatics in Radiation Oncology

ISBN:

9781439825839

9780429193507

0429193505

1439825823

9781439825822

OCLC:

856870749