Akihiko Takeuchi

Mr. Akihiko Takeuchi

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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16 June 2023 in Physica Medica
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SKShinya Komori
Shinya Komori
KHKatsumi Hirose
Katsumi Hirose
ATAkihiko Takeuchi
Akihiko Takeuchi
RKRyohei Kato
Ryohei Kato
TMTomoaki Motoyanagi
Tomoaki Motoyanagi
YTYoshihiro Takai
Yoshihiro Takai

2 October 2024 in Physica Medica
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SKShinya Komori
Shinya Komori
KHKatsumi Hirose
Katsumi Hirose
MSMariko Sato
Mariko Sato
YYYuhei Yamazaki
Yuhei Yamazaki
ATAkihiko Takeuchi
Akihiko Takeuchi
YTYoshihiro Takai
Yoshihiro Takai

18 September 2024 in Medical Physics
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SKShinya Komori
Shinya Komori
ATAkihiko Takeuchi
Akihiko Takeuchi
RKRyohei Kato
Ryohei Kato
YYYuhei Yamazaki
Yuhei Yamazaki
TMTomoaki Motoyanagi
Tomoaki Motoyanagi
YTYoshihiro Takai
Yoshihiro Takai

14 August 2024 in Radiological Physics and Technology
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ATAkihiko Takeuchi
Akihiko Takeuchi
KHKatsumi Hirose
Katsumi Hirose
RKRyohei Kato
Ryohei Kato
SKShinya Komori
Shinya Komori
MSMariko Sato
Mariko Sato
TKTakahiro Kato
Takahiro Kato

26 May 2026 in Medical Physics
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RKRyohei Kato
Ryohei Kato
NKNoriyuki Kadoya
Noriyuki Kadoya
TKTakahiro Kato
Takahiro Kato
ATAkihiko Takeuchi
Akihiko Takeuchi
SKShinya Komori
Shinya Komori
YTYoshihiro Takai
Yoshihiro Takai
Background: In boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculations are commonly employed because of the complicated neutron reactions. However, MC dose calculations are generally time‐consuming. Recently, deep learning (DL)‐based dose prediction/calculation has attracted increasing attention; however, the applications of DL models in BNCT are limited and have not been investigated extensively. In addition, there are no practical DL models that can be employed in BNCT clinical practice. Purpose: We propose a practical DL model for head and neck cancers using a commercial treatment planning system (TPS) for BNCT. To increase the speed of the MC dose calculations, the proposed DL model converts the BNCT dose components calculated by the coarse dose calculation grid size and low statistical uncertainty in the MC calculation into the dose components calculated under the fine setting. Methods: In this study, we considered 114 head and neck cancer patients who underwent accelerator‐based BNCT at our center. Here, we randomly divided 102 patients for training/validation and 12 patients for testing. The BNCT dose components (i.e., boron, nitrogen, hydrogen, and gamma doses) were calculated for all patients using a commercial TPS for BNCT. We employed the hierarchically dense U‐net and converted the BNCT dose components calculated by the coarse setting (grid size/uncertainty = 5 mm/10%) into doses calculated by the fine setting (2 mm/5%). In addition, a physical density map was added to the DL input to improve the conversion accuracy. Taking the fine dose as the ground truth, we evaluated the γ‐passing rates with various criteria for each dose component of the coarse and DL doses. The calculation time was also measured in the fine, coarse, and DL doses. Results: In the boron dose, the DL dose exhibited significantly higher γ‐passing rates of ≥ 95% with a criterion of 1%/2 mm (dose difference/distance to agreement) than the coarse dose. In the nitrogen and hydrogen doses, the DL dose also demonstrated high γ‐passing rates of 95.3% and 94.7% with a criterion of 5%/2 mm. The density map was effective for the hydrogen and nitrogen doses. In addition, the average γ‐passing rate with the criterion of 3%/2 mm in the gamma dose achieved 96.2% for the DL dose. The average calculation times for the fine and coarse settings were 984.2 ± 470.2 min and 11.0 ± 2.9 min, respectively, and the average conversion time in the DL model was 0.091 ± 0.020 min. Conclusions: In this study, the proposed DL model was developed to convert each dose component calculated in the coarse setting to the fine dose to increase the speed of commercial MC dose calculations in BNCT for head and neck cancers. The conversion speed from the coarse dose to the fine dose was considerably rapid, and its performance was highly accurate. The proposed DL model can provide accurate BNCT dose distributions at high speed, thereby contributing to improving the quality of BNCT treatment planning.

12 August 2025 in Strahlentherapie und Onkologie
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SKShinya Komori
Shinya Komori
YTYoshiaki Takagawa
Yoshiaki Takagawa
ATAkihiko Takeuchi
Akihiko Takeuchi
HSHiroki Sato
Hiroki Sato
TKTakahiro Kato
Takahiro Kato