A novel TOPSIS–CBR goal programming approach to sustainable healthcare treatment

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Malekpoor, Hanif, Mishra, Nishikant and Kumar, Sameer (2022) A novel TOPSIS–CBR goal programming approach to sustainable healthcare treatment. Annals of Operations Research, 312 (2). pp. 1403-1425. ISSN 0254-5330

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Abstract

Cancer is one of the most common diseases worldwide and its treatment is a complex and time-consuming process. Specifically, prostate cancer as the most common cancer among male population has received the attentions of many researchers. Oncologists and medical physicists usually rely on their past experience and expertise to prescribe the dose plan for cancer treatment. The main objective of dose planning process is to deliver high dose to the cancerous cells and simultaneously minimize the side effects of the treatment. In this article, a novel TOPSIS case based reasoning goal-programming approach has been proposed to optimize the dose plan for prostate cancer treatment. Firstly, a hybrid retrieval process TOPSIS–CBR [technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and case based reasoning (CBR)] is used to capture the expertise and experience of oncologists. Thereafter, the dose plans of retrieved cases are adjusted using goal-programming mathematical model. This approach will not only help oncologists to make a better trade-off between different conflicting decision making criteria but will also deliver a high dose to the cancerous cells with minimal and necessary effect on surrounding organs at risk. The efficacy of proposed method is tested on a real data set collected from Nottingham City Hospital using leave-one-out strategy. In most of the cases treatment plans generated by the proposed method is coherent with the dose plan prescribed by an experienced oncologist or even better. Developed decision support system can assist both new and experienced oncologists in the treatment planning process.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	case based reasoning,goal-programming,prostate cancer,radiotherapy,topsis,decision sciences(all),management science and operations research,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1800
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10479-...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2018 16:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 04:07
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68212
DOI:	10.1007/s10479-018-2992-y

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