Patents by Inventor Jens Olof Sjolund
Jens Olof Sjolund has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240408410Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic radiotherapy treatment planning in a continuous space of computation. Example operations for generating treatment plan data for a radiotherapy treatment include: obtaining data for a radiotherapy treatment of a human subject; generating a set of radiation controls from the data for the radiotherapy treatment, with at least one of the radiation controls being based on a mapping from a continuous (e.g., infinite dimensional) computational space; converting the generated set of radiation controls to a set of treatment delivery parameters, the set of treatment delivery parameters corresponding to capabilities of a radiotherapy treatment machine; and producing treatment plan data for the radiotherapy treatment based on the set of treatment delivery parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Jens Olof Sjolund, Carl Axel Håkan Nordström
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Publication number: 20240366962Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for simulating dose deposition. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving a set of training data representing phase space of a radiotherapy treatment device comprising propagation and scattering of particles inside the radiotherapy treatment device; training a generative machine learning model based on the set of training data to generate one or more samples of the phase space of the radiotherapy treatment device; and simulating dose deposition at a particular region of interest based on the one or more samples of the phase space generated by the generative machine learning model.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Jens Olof Sjolund, Carl Axel Hakan Nordström
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Publication number: 20240316362Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for treatment planning.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Jens Olof Sjolund, Carl Axel Håkan Nordström, John Henry Dahlberg
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Patent number: 11996178Abstract: Techniques for generating a radiotherapy treatment plan are provided. The techniques include receiving a radiotherapy optimization problem, the radiotherapy problem comprising a plurality of parameters; processing the radiotherapy optimization problem to instantiate a first set of candidate parameters; converting the first set of candidate parameters into an adapted representation; defining an adapted radiotherapy optimization problem as a function of the adapted representation such that a given solution to the adapted optimization problem estimates a solution to the radiotherapy optimization problem; processing the adapted radiotherapy optimization problem to estimate a function of the solution to the adapted radiotherapy optimization problem; and processing the estimated function of the solution to the adapted optimization problem to generate a deliverable radiotherapy treatment plan.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Elekta AB (publ)Inventor: Jens Olof Sjolund
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Patent number: 11975218Abstract: Techniques for producing segmentation with privacy are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Elekta AB (publ)Inventors: Dominik Fay, Jens Olof Sjolund
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Publication number: 20240001148Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for adaptive radiotherapy. There is provided a method for adaptive radiotherapy treatment of a patient comprising receiving a sequence of measurement data of the treatment, the measurements being captured at different time points, mapping measurement data to a representation of a treatment geometry at the time points, using the representation in a dynamical model describing how variables in the representation evolve over time, based on the dynamical model, estimating positions over time of the treatment geometry or selected parts of the treatment geometry, determining a treatment action for the patient at a defined time point using the estimation from the dynamical model and executing the treatment action at the defined time point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Jens Olof Sjolund, Niklas Gunnarsson
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Publication number: 20230264045Abstract: Dose-volume criteria may be equivalently expressed in terms of quantiles. This re-formulation of a dose-volume criteria allows incorporation of dose-volume criteria into a full optimization problem. Radiotherapy treatment techniques are described that may apply optimization-based formulation of quantiles to express dose-volume criterion as an inequality involving an optimization problem, which may improve DVH modeling, improve computational speed and accuracy of radiation treatment planning, and improve the delivery accuracy and efficacy of radiation doses to a patient undergoing radiotherapy treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Jens Olof Sjolund, Carl Axel Håkan Nordström
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Patent number: 11605452Abstract: Techniques for solving a radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem are provided. The techniques include receiving a radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem; processing the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem with a machine learning model to estimate one or more optimization variables of the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem, wherein the machine learning model is trained to establish a relationship between the one or more optimization variables and parameters of a plurality of training radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problems; and generating a solution to the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem based on the estimated one or more optimization variables of the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Elekta AB (publ)Inventors: Jonas Anders Adler, Jens Olof Sjölund
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Publication number: 20220249868Abstract: Techniques for producing segmentation with privacy are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Dominik Fay, Jens Olof Sjolund
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Patent number: 11367520Abstract: Techniques for solving a radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem are provided. The techniques include receiving a first radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem having a first set of parameters; processing the first set of parameters to estimate a second set of parameters of a second radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem; generating a solution to the second radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem based on the estimated second set of parameters; and generating a radiotherapy treatment plan based on the solution to the second radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Elekta AB (publ)Inventor: Jens Olof Sjölund
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Patent number: 11358003Abstract: Techniques for generating a radiotherapy treatment plan are provided. The techniques include receiving an input parameter related to a patient, the input parameter being of a given type; processing the input parameter with a machine learning technique to estimate a realizable plan parameter of a radiotherapy treatment plan, wherein the machine learning technique is trained to establish a relationship between the given type of input parameter and a set of realizable radiotherapy treatment plan parameters to achieve a target radiotherapy dose distribution; and generating the radiotherapy treatment plan based on the estimated realizable plan parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Elekta ABInventors: Jens Olof Sjölund, Jonas Anders Adler
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Publication number: 20210339049Abstract: Techniques for generating a radiotherapy treatment plan parameter are provided. The techniques include receiving radiotherapy treatment plan information; processing the radiotherapy treatment plan information to estimate one or more radiotherapy treatment plan parameters based on a process that depends on the output of a subprocess that estimates a derivative of a dose calculation; and generating a radiotherapy treatment plan using the estimated one or more radiotherapy treatment plan parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventor: Jens Olof Sjolund
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Patent number: 11097128Abstract: Techniques for generating a radiotherapy treatment plan parameter are provided. The techniques include receiving radiotherapy treatment plan information; processing the radiotherapy treatment plan information to estimate one or more radiotherapy treatment plan parameters based on a process that depends on the output of a subprocess that estimates a derivative of a dose calculation; and generating a radiotherapy treatment plan using the estimated one or more radiotherapy treatment plan parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Elekta AB (publ)Inventor: Jens Olof Sjölund
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Patent number: 11056243Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for radiotherapy treatment planning. For example, a method may generate a treatment plan for a patient. The method may receive training data reflecting radiotherapy treatment data. The training data may include a feature vector and a target vector. The method may further determine a training model based on the feature vector and the target vector. The method may further receive testing data associated with the patient. The testing data may include a descriptive feature vector. The method may further determine a therapy model based on the descriptive feature vector and the training model. The therapy model may be used to generate the treatment plan.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Elekta AB (Publ)Inventor: Jens Olof Sjölund
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Patent number: 11020615Abstract: Systems and methods for calculating radiotherapy dose distribution are provided. The systems and methods include operations for receiving data representing at least one of particle trajectories or a dose deposition pattern in a simulated delivery of a radiotherapy plan; applying a dose calculation process to the received data to generate a first radiotherapy dose distribution having a first level of detail; and processing the first radiotherapy dose distribution using a trained machine learning technique to generate a second radiotherapy dose distribution having a second level of detail that enhances the first level of detail.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Elekta AB (publ)Inventors: Markus Eriksson, Jens Olof Sjölund, Linn Öström, David Andreas Tilly, Peter Kimstrand, Jonas Anders Adler
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Publication number: 20210158929Abstract: Techniques for generating a radiotherapy treatment plan are provided. The techniques include receiving a radiotherapy optimization problem, the radiotherapy problem comprising a plurality of parameters; processing the radiotherapy optimization problem to instantiate a first set of candidate parameters; converting the first set of candidate parameters into an adapted representation; defining an adapted radiotherapy optimization problem as a function of the adapted representation such that a given solution to the adapted optimization problem estimates a solution to the radiotherapy optimization problem; processing the adapted radiotherapy optimization problem to estimate a function of the solution to the adapted radiotherapy optimization problem; and processing the estimated function of the solution to the adapted optimization problem to generate a deliverable radiotherapy treatment plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventor: Jens Olof Sjolund
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Publication number: 20210020296Abstract: Techniques for solving a radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem are provided. The techniques include receiving a first radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem having a first set of parameters; processing the first set of parameters to estimate a second set of parameters of a second radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem; generating a solution to the second radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem based on the estimated second set of parameters; and generating a radiotherapy treatment plan based on the solution to the second radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventor: Jens Olof Sjölund
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Publication number: 20210016109Abstract: Techniques for generating a radiotherapy treatment plan parameter are provided. The techniques include receiving radiotherapy treatment plan information; processing the radiotherapy treatment plan information to estimate one or more radiotherapy treatment plan parameters based on a process that depends on the output of a subprocess that estimates a derivative of a dose calculation; and generating a radiotherapy treatment plan using the estimated one or more radiotherapy treatment plan parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventor: Jens Olof Sjölund
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Publication number: 20210020297Abstract: Techniques for solving a radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem are provided. The techniques include receiving a radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem; processing the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem with a machine learning model to estimate one or more optimization variables of the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem, wherein the machine learning model is trained to establish a relationship between the one or more optimization variables and parameters of a plurality of training radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problems; and generating a solution to the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem based on the estimated one or more optimization variables of the radiotherapy treatment plan optimization problem.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Jonas Anders Adler, Jens Olof Sjölund
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Publication number: 20200289847Abstract: Techniques for generating a radiotherapy treatment plan are provided. The techniques include receiving an input parameter related to a patient, the input parameter being of a given type; processing the input parameter with a machine learning technique to estimate a realizable plan parameter of a radiotherapy treatment plan, wherein the machine learning technique is trained to establish a relationship between the given type of input parameter and a set of realizable radiotherapy treatment plan parameters to achieve a target radiotherapy dose distribution; and generating the radiotherapy treatment plan based on the estimated realizable plan parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Jens Olof Sjölund, Jonas Anders Adler