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- the present invention relates to a method and system for medical treatment planning and more particularly to a method and system for medical treatment planning involving interactive communication between medical personnel at diverse locations, and real-time viewing and manipulation of the same data by all parties utilizing the system.
- the dosimitrist works with treatment planning computers and other manual data in assisting the radiation oncologist prescribe the proper dose. Additionally, peer reviewers are often utilized so that the treatment plan developed by a collaborative team is independently evaluated to assure that the proposed treatment plan is appropriate, as well as to solicit the opinions of other experts in the field. In the past, the members of the collaborative team were typically located in the same facility.
- a treatment planning system which enables multiple collaborators in different locations to interactively view and manipulate data for use in, for example, preparing a treatment plan while also interacting with each other.
- the present invention is a treatment planning system which enables multiple collaborators in different locations to interactively view and manipulate data for use in, for example, preparing a treatment plan while also interacting with each other.
- a method is disclosed for interactive medical treatment planning involving multiple participants using multiple treatment planning stations, comprising the steps of: (a) establishing one of the treatment planning stations as a session controller and launching treatment planning software thereon; (b) establishing a communication connection between the session controller planning station and all of the treatment planning stations participating in a planning session; and (c) displaying, on all participating treatment planning stations, treatment plan information being displayed on the session controller treatment planning station.
- the method of the present invention further includes the step of designating one of the treatment planning stations as an active controller, with the active controller controlling manipulation of the treatment planning information.
- the active control ' of the treatment planning session is regulated by the session controller treatment planning station.
- Figure 1 illustrates an example of a typical hardware configuration on which the method of the present invention may be practiced
- FIG. 2 illustrates an example of typical architecture of the present invention
- Figure 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of steps performed in connection with the present invention for a typical radiation therapy treatment.
- Figure 1 illustrates an example of a typical hardware configuration on which the method of the present invention may be practiced. It is understood that the present invention is not limited to this configuration and the components described herein; they are provided by way of example to help explain the method of the present invention and an environment in which it could operate.
- treatment planning site refers to a main medical facility, such as The Johns Hopkins Hospital Oncology Center in Baltimore, Maryland
- care delivery site refers to a remote location where the medical treatment defined in the treatment plan would be delivered, such as, for example, The Johns Hopkins Green Spring Clinic in Lutherville, Maryland or the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland. It is understood that it is not necessary that the treatment planning site and the care delivery site be at different locations.
- a treatment planning site 110, a care delivery site 112, and a peer review site 114 are interconnected via a network connection 116 in a well known manner.
- each of the sites 110, 112, and 114 may be in the same city, may be in different cities, different countries, or at different locations within the same building.
- the treatment planning site 110 is located in an urban center, e.g., the city of Baltimore, and the care delivery site 112 is located in a more rural or remote geographic location, e.g., Maryland's Eastern Shore.
- the peer review site 114 can be located at the same facility as treatment planning site 110 or at a location (e.g., a university) separate and apart from treatment planning site 110.
- Each of the sites 110, 112 and 114 include workstations ("treatment planning stations") for participation in any interactive planning sessions that may occur. Although it would be preferable that all of the workstations 120 be identical, they may also be different, both in terms of hardware and the platform that they utilize to operate.
- the workstation 120 located at care delivery site 112 may be a UNIX or Windows platform, while the workstations 120 at the treatment planning site 110 or peer reviewing site 114 may be Macintosh-based systems.
- Each of the workstations 120 must be able to support real-time, multi-point data and video communications, e.g., compliant with the ITU T.120 and H.323 conferencing standards. This can be accomplished using session controller software, discussed below, typically running on a computer at the treatment planning site 110. Further, all of the workstations 120 must be able to display images at an appropriate resolution, color depth, and size to enable persons using the system to be able to discern significant image characteristics that affect treatment planning. These parameters are well known in the field of medical imaging and treatment planning. The workstations 120 must be able to view a treatment planning software program (a "host application") running on one of the treatment planning workstations which has been designated as the "session controller," to enable all collaborators to seamlessly interact with each other.
- a treatment planning software program (a "host application") running on one of the treatment planning workstations which has been designated as the "session controller," to enable all collaborators to seamlessly interact with each other.
- Each workstation 120 must also be configured to perform video conferencing by utilizing, for example, Microsoft Net Meeting (Windows/Intel platforms) or Sun SunForm for Sun platforms, or other commercial T.120 compliant software, and conventional video conferencing hardware including a video camera and microphone.
- each platform may be equipped with image rendering software, preferably DICOM 3.0 compatible software, such as Accusoft ExamiNet, to facilitate sharing of DICOM-compatible images and patient information.
- the conference session controller 200 (as noted above, typically at the treatment planning site 110) includes an application host system 222, a video teleconference host system 224, and a video teleconference video server 226.
- Application host 222 can comprise, for example, a Pinnacle workstation, including sufficient memory storage capability to store large volumes of large-size image data and other data. If the Pinnacle system is employed, a single set of data will be manipulated. However, if not employing the Pinnacle system, more than one set of data can be manipulated. It is understood that a separate file server (not shown) can be provided to provide separate and more robust storage capability.
- a client or remote site workstation 210 or 212 requests to join the conference and share the application running on an application host server 222.
- the video teleconference video server 226 grants or denies access to the conference.
- the host "view" of the host application running on the host application server 222 is sent to the workstations 210 and 212, so that every viewer of the conference is viewing the identical image as that being displayed on the application host server 222. If the image displayed on the application host server 222 changes, so does the image displayed on the remote site workstations 210 or 212. This assures the integrity of the conference since everyone is always assured of viewing the same image at all times.
- Use of the present invention allows multiple workstations to collaborate in a common conference session.
- the conference session controller 200 will coordinate and have ultimate control of the session and will establish and maintain the session.
- Image manipulation e.g., contouring, rotation, pointing to locations, etc.
- coordination is needed among the collaborators at the various sites to avoid conflicts for control of the host application.
- an operator of a workstation must submit a request for control (an "active-control request").
- the operator of the application host server at the video teleconference host 224 which can be, for example, a master workstation, will either grant or deny the request.
- the requesting workstation will be given active control and will remain in active control of the host application until it relinquishes control or is preempted by the operator of the application host server 222.
- the operator of the application host server 222 always has preemptive control of the session.
- the application host will update its display. As the application host updates its display, the content of the display will be sent to each of the workstations. Since it is likely that various workstations will render the images at various processing speeds, preferably the rate at which image manipulation requests are displayed will be that of the image render rate of the slowest workstation in the session. In a preferred embodiment the display on all machines would be essentially instantaneous, however, in practice the rate of display is limited by the slowest workstation.
- the video teleconferencing enables the actions taken by the participants in the conference to be seen and heard and to ⁇ communicate their intent directly; this minimizes any confusion that might occur if the participants were attempting to interact only by computer (and without the sight or voice cues available with video conferencing).
- the video teleconference video server 226, which can be, for example, a Multimedia Multi-point Control Unit (MMCU), and its associated software, allows the video image of multiple participants to be displayed and viewed by the other participants simultaneously, and in a known manner automatically switches the audio to the person actively speaking at any given time.
- MMCU Multimedia Multi-point Control Unit
- the decision to save the "image set" is preferably made by the conference application host.
- the conference application host it will be understood and agreed upon by all participants in the conference that only the operator of the application host server will be allowed to issue the command to save the treatment plan on the data server, thus assuring that the appropriate treatment plan is saved. Approval by authorized individuals will be required to update treatment plans before they can be used for care delivery.
- a user at a workstation may also have ancillary images or text that need to be shared with the participants at other workstations.
- the originator of the ancillary data will send the data to the conference session manager for temporary storage in a shared directory dedicated to the session.
- the other workstations can retrieve the ancillary data at any time during the session.
- Figure 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the steps performed in connection with the present invention for a typical radiation therapy treatment. It is understood that similar steps would be carried out for any type of medical treatment involving a collaborative effort between medical personnel.
- images of the treatment volume e.g., a tumor
- images of the treatment volume are obtained. These can be obtained by any known means, for example, from a CT scan, or an MRI. These images can be obtained at the care delivery site, the treatment planning site, or any other supporting facility.
- the obtained images stored in electronic form (e.g., in DICOM 3.0 format), are transferred to a remote treatment database located at the treatment planning site.
- the remote treatment database is simply a database program with appropriate storage capability, and can reside on, for example, a personal computer or server with memory allocated for remote treatment data storage, or any other data storage device.
- an initial treatment plan is drafted at the treatment planning site.
- the initial treatment plan in the context of radiation therapy for a tumor, would typically include definition of the gross tumor volume, clinical tumor volumes, planning treatment volume, dose clouds, beam angle, and intensity parameters.
- a treatment review session is established between the staff at the treatment planning site (e.g., the dosimitrists) and the staff at the care delivery site (e.g., the oncologist at the remote treatment facility).
- this initial treatment review session can also include peer review participants providing their input regarding the proposed treatment plan.
- the treatment review session involves collaborative interaction between all of the parties to the session. As described above, participants at each location simultaneously view the same image(s).
- Video conferencing capability is also provided, with the video display appearing on the screen but in a position so as not to impede the view of the image(s), e.g., in one corner of the screen.
- the process of the present invention includes the capability for any of the participants to "take control" of the treatment review session as desired. For example, if an oncologist at the care delivery site wishes to point to a particular element of an image being viewed and discuss it with the other parties and/or suggest areas on which to focus treatment, or otherwise manipulate an image, the oncologist can request "control" of the session via a keyboard input or a voice request, which is then processed by a session controller.
- the session controller in a preferred embodiment, is located at the treatment planning site and can comprise a computer configured to control the session and authorize, deny, and cancel control of sessions among the participating workstations.
- Conventional software exists to configure the session controller computer to perform it's control functions.
- the session controller can be located at any location as long as it is connectable to participate in the session.
- the oncologist can move a mouse pointer or other designator to a particular area of the image being viewed by all parties to point, with precision, at the area he or she wishes to discuss; all other participants in the session will view the oncologist's mouse pointer movement and see precisely the location in the image that he or she is discussing over the video conference.
- a typical treatment review session would include a 3 -dimensional treatment- area review (step 318) of the gross tumor volume and the proposed clinical and planning treatment volumes set forth in the initial treatment plan. Because of the ability to interact with each other in real-time as though all in the same room, the participants in the session can express their points of view and quickly reach agreement as to the appropriate area to treat. If agreement is not reached at step 320, the process reverts back and additional 3D treatment-area reviews are conducted until agreement can be reached.
- a dose review is conducted.
- the purpose of the dose review is to come to an agreement as to the appropriateness of the treatment parameters outlined in the initial treatment plan to be used in treating the tumor, e.g., beam angles, intensities, etc.
- the dose and its application of the treatment volume are reviewed and input is solicited from all session participants. If the dose needs to be modified as a result of the review, multiple options may be available.
- new beam angles and intensities can be calculated using well known treatment planning calculation software which can be provided as part of the treatment planning system software being used by the participants; alternatively, a "Monte Carlo" simulation can be performed to refine the dose parameters by launching a stand-alone program which runs the Monte Carlo simulator and then providing the results to all participants.
- step 322 there may be modifications suggested to the area of definition defined during the 3D treatment-area review. If so (see step 327), the process returns to conduct an additional 3D treatment-area review at step 318; once agreement is reached on both treatment area and treatment dose, at step 328 quality control procedures can be utilized to assure that the final plan is optimal.
- This quality review step may include input from peer reviewers (peer review may be conducted at any stage of the process).
- peer review may be conducted at any stage of the process.
- the specific hardware required for operation of the present invention can comprise conventional hardware.
- Remote treatment planning requires the transfer of large, high-resolution image sets needed to define three- dimensional treatment volumes and surrounding organs. Manipulation of these images must be able to be performed in real-time among the sites supporting the generation of the plan and the delivery of the treatment.
- the telecommunications infrastructure must be able to support the transfer and manipulation of large image files in a secure, collaborative video teleconferencing environment. Such technology currently exists; however, bandwidth limitations limit the speed with which the present invention will operate.
- NGI Next Generation Internet
- the features of the plan may include gross tumor, clinical target, and the planned treatment volume(s); critical structures where radiation doses need to be limited; treatment fields, digitally-reconstructed radiographs, dose volume histograms, and dose distributions on a variety of imaging modalities; comparison of alternate plans to determine the best plan for optimal patient treatment; validation and verification of individual treatment fields on a treatment simulator at the remote site; revision of individual treatment fields in terms of weighting, field size, blocking, compensation, use of beam modifiers, and the submission of revisions for new dose calculations; and assembly of information relevant to the treatment for peer review by physicians at any site, such review to include the treatment plan, dose-volume histograms, digitally-reconstructed radiographs, and port films.
- distances between facilities do not pose significant problems to practitioners attempting to develop a cooperative plan, and recipients of treatments developed during the cooperative planning sessions may minimize long distance travel to obtain required treatments.
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