…And I previously thought that OR techniques are only useful for business applications. Here’s an example which demonstrates OR’s ubiquity, an OR-based system used to improve cancer therapy. Some quotes from the article:
- system for helping cancer treatment specialists optimize the placement of radioactive seeds used in the brachytherapy process
- from the clinician’s point of view, this will allow physicians to prescribe how they want the radiation to be applied, and the system will produce an optimized plan to do that
- the patented system is based on optimization techniques known as mixed integer programming
