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Increased surgical capacity without additional resources: Generalized operating room planning and scheduling
We study a generalized operating room planning and scheduling (GORPS) problem at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH) in Ontario, Canada. …
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Logic-based benders decomposition and binary decision diagram based approaches for stochastic distributed operating room scheduling
The distributed operating room (OR) scheduling problem aims to find an assignment of surgeries to ORs across collaborating hospitals …
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Branch-and-check methods for multi-level operating room planning and scheduling
We develop the first exact decomposition approaches for a multi-level operating room planning and scheduling problem that integrates …
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Knowledge-based isocenter selection in radiosurgery planning
Purpose: We present a new method for knowledge-based isocenter selection for treatment planning in radiosurgery. Our objective is to …
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Reformulation, linearization, and decomposition techniques for balanced distributed operating room scheduling
We study the balanced distributed operating room (OR) scheduling (BDORS) problem as a location-allocation model, encompassing two …
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Analysis of emergency department length of stay for mental health visits: A case study of a Canadian academic hospital
Objective The objective of this study was to examine temporal trends in mental health visits to the emergency department (ED) and to …
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Planning capacity for mental health and addiction services in the emergency department: A discrete-event simulation approach
Ontario has shown an increasing number of emergency department (ED) visits, particularly for mental health and addiction (MHA) …
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Simultaneous optimization of isocenter locations and sector duration in radiosurgery
Stereotactic radiosurgery is an effective technique to treat brain tumors for which several inverse planning methods may be …
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Guided undersampling classification for automated radiation therapy quality assurance of prostate cancer treatment
Purpose: To test the use of well-studied and widely used classification methods alongside newly developed data-filtering techniques …
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Modeling and comparison of alternative approaches for sector duration optimization in a dedicated radiosurgery system
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is an effective technique to treat brain metastasis for which several inverse planning methods may be …
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