用数字孪生技术优化肝癌放疗,提升疗效并减少损伤。
Towards Digital Twins for Optimal Radioembolization
- 结合高精度仿真与物理引导的AI模型模拟血流和微球运输。
- 相比传统方法,计算速度提升数十倍,支持实时决策。
- 适合介入放射科医生和医学工程团队参考应用。
放射栓塞是通过肝动脉导管将直径30微米的放射性微球注入肝脏肿瘤的局部治疗手段,目标是在最大化肿瘤杀伤效果的同时最小化对健康肝组织的损伤。由于肝动脉解剖复杂、血流变异大及微球传输不确定性,治疗优化极具挑战。构建动态、患者特异的数字孪生系统可提供突破性解决方案。本文提出融合高保真计算流体动力学(CFD)与新兴物理信息机器学习方法的框架。传统CFD基于患者个体数据计算微球在肝动脉树中的传输,虽精确但计算成本高,难以临床应用。为加速仿真,物理信息神经网络(PINNs)及其生成式扩展(如PI-GANs、PI-DMs、Transformer架构)日益重要。它们将纳维-斯托克斯等控制方程嵌入训练过程,实现无网格、低数据依赖的血流与微球传输近似。这些AI代理模型不仅保持物理一致性,还可快速采样多种流场情景,支持时序解析与不确定性分析,助力实时治疗决策。CFD与物理信息AI共同构成动态、个性化的肝放射栓塞数字孪生基础,有望显著改善临床疗效。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Radioembolization is a localized liver cancer treatment that delivers radioactive microspheres (30 micron) to tumors via a catheter inserted in the hepatic arterial tree. The goal is to maximize therapeutic efficacy while minimizing damage to healthy liver tissue. However, optimization is challenging due to complex hepatic artery anatomy, variable blood flow, and uncertainty in microsphere transport. The creation of dynamic, patient-specific digital twins may provide a transformative solution to these challenges. This work outlines a framework for a liver radioembolization digital twin using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and/or recent physics-informed machine learning approaches. The CFD approach involves microsphere transport calculations in the hepatic arterial tree with individual patient data, which enables personalized treatment planning. Although accurate, traditional CFD is computationally expensive and limits clinical applicability. To accelerate simulations, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and their generative extensions play an increasingly important role. PINNs integrate governing equations, such as the Navier-Stokes equations, directly into the neural network training process, enabling mesh-free, data-efficient approximation of blood flow and microsphere transport. Physics-informed generative adversarial networks (PI-GANs), diffusion models (PI-DMs), and transformer-based architectures further enable uncertainty-aware, temporally resolved predictions with reduced computational cost. These AI surrogates not only maintain physical fidelity but also support rapid sampling of diverse flow scenarios, facilitating real-time decision support. Together, CFD and physics-informed AI methods form the foundation of dynamic, patient-specific digital twin to optimize radioembolization planning and ultimately improve clinical outcomes.
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