{"id":288234,"date":"2026-07-11T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/hathal-haddad-artificial-intelligence-in-interventional-radiotherapy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:55:06","slug":"hathal-haddad-artificial-intelligence-in-interventional-radiotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/hathal-haddad-artificial-intelligence-in-interventional-radiotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hathal Haddad: Artificial Intelligence in Interventional Radiotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/voices\/hathal-haddad-539631\">Hathal Haddad: Artificial Intelligence in Interventional Radiotherapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/voices\/hathal-haddad-539631\">https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/voices\/hathal-haddad-539631<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-11 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"oncodaily.com\">oncodaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hathal Haddad<\/strong>,\u00a0Head of Interventional Radiotherapy Unit at University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, shared a post on\u00a0LinkedIn:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c7 Days Until Brachytherapy Awareness Day 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artificial Intelligence in Interventional Radiotherapy (Brachytherapy)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artificial Intelligence<\/strong> is transforming the future of <strong>cancer care \u2013 <\/strong>not by replacing clinicians, but by empowering them to deliver <strong>safer, faster, and more personalized treatments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Interventional Radiotherapy (Brachytherapy)<\/strong>, <strong>AI<\/strong> is already improving multiple steps of the <strong>clinical workflow<\/strong>, particularly in <strong>prostate cancer<\/strong>, from <strong>MRI target delineation<\/strong> to <strong>CT applicator reconstruction<\/strong> and <strong>real-time ultrasound-guided needle placement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AI is helping us to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Automatically contour the prostate and surrounding organs at risk on MRI<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Improve target definition for focal and whole-gland treatments<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Detect and reconstruct needles and sources more accurately on CT<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Support real-time TRUS-guided implantation during procedures<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduce treatment planning time<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Improve consistency and reproducibility<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhance treatment quality and patient safety<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By combining <strong>human expertise<\/strong> with <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong>, we can create <strong>treatment plans<\/strong> that are more <strong>precise<\/strong>, more <strong>efficient<\/strong>, and <strong>tailored to each individual patient<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, one principle remains unchanged:<\/p>\n<p><strong>AI supports clinicians \u2013 it does not replace them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The future of <strong>brachytherapy<\/strong> lies in the collaboration between <strong>radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiologists, engineers, and intelligent technologies<\/strong>, always with one goal:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delivering better care for every patient.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artificial Intelligence empowers clinicians. Brachytherapy saves lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>17 July 2026 \u2013 Brachytherapy Awareness Day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Other articles about\u00a0Radiotherapy\u00a0on OncoDaily.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/voices\/hathal-haddad-539631\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hathal Haddad: Artificial Intelligence in Interventional Radiotherapy https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/voices\/hathal-haddad-539631 Publish Date: 2026-07-11 06:30:00 Source Domain: oncodaily.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/pub\/uploads\/2026\/06\/74410161289.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288236,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288234\/revisions\/288236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}