Study of Learning Entropy for Novelty Detection in lung tumor motion prediction for target tracking radiation therapy

Abstract

This paper presents recently introduced concept of Learning Entropy (LE) for time series and recalls the practical form of its evaluation in real time. Then, a technique that estimates the increased risk of prediction inaccuracy of adaptive predictors in real time using LE is introduced. On simulation examples using artificial signal and real respiratory time series, it is shown that LE can be used to evaluate the actual validity of the adaptive predicting model of time series in real time. The introduced technique is discussed as a potential approach to the improvement of accuracy of lung tumor tracking radiation therapy.