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Alan Nichol

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Rasa: Open source language understanding and dialogue management

…, J Faulkner, N Pawlowski, A Nichol - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We introduce a pair of tools, Rasa NLU and Rasa Core, which are open source python libraries
for building conversational software. Their purpose is to make machine-learning based …

[PDF][PDF] Interim cosmetic and toxicity results from RAPID: a randomized trial of accelerated partial breast irradiation using three-dimensional conformal external beam …

…, PT Truong, I Kong, B Cochrane, A Nichol… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - researchgate.net
… Truong, Alan Nichol, Melanie Reed, and Wayne Beckham, British Columbia Cancer
Agency; Ivo A. Olivotto, Tanya Berrang, and Pauline T. Truong, University of British …

External beam accelerated partial breast irradiation versus whole breast irradiation after breast conserving surgery in women with ductal carcinoma in situ and node …

…, JA Julian, TS Berrang, DH Kim, I Germain, AM Nichol… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Whole breast irradiation delivered once per day over 3–5 weeks after breast
conserving surgery reduces local recurrence with good cosmetic results. Accelerated partial …

Diet: Lightweight language understanding for dialogue systems

T Bunk, D Varshneya, V Vlasov, A Nichol - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09936, 2020 - arxiv.org
Large-scale pre-trained language models have shown impressive results on language
understanding benchmarks like GLUE and SuperGLUE, improving considerably over other pre-…

A magnetic resonance imaging study of prostate deformation relative to implanted gold fiducial markers

AM Nichol, KK Brock, GA Lockwood, DJ Moseley… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Purpose: To describe prostate deformation during radiotherapy and determine the margins
required to account for prostate deformation after setup to intraprostatic fiducial markers (FM). …

A comparison of volumetric modulated arc therapy and conventional intensity-modulated radiotherapy for frontal and temporal high-grade gliomas

R Shaffer, AM Nichol, E Vollans, M Fong… - International Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), the predecessor to Varian's RapidArc,
is a novel extension of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) wherein the dose is …

Assessment of a model-based deformable image registration approach for radiation therapy planning

…, KK Brock, V Pekar, LA Dawson, AM Nichol… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop a surface-based deformable image registration
strategy and to assess the accuracy of the system for the integration of multimodality imaging…

Whole brain radiotherapy with hippocampal avoidance and simultaneous integrated boost for 1–3 brain metastases: a feasibility study using volumetric modulated arc …

F Hsu, H Carolan, A Nichol, F Cao, N Nuraney… - International Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility of using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) to
deliver whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) with hippocampal avoidance and a simultaneous …

EGFR mutation status on brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer

F Hsu, A De Caluwe, D Anderson, A Nichol, T Toriumi… - Lung Cancer, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of EGFR mutations on the
incidence of brain metastases in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …

[PDF][PDF] Intervals longer than 20 weeks from breast-conserving surgery to radiation therapy are associated with inferior outcome for women with early-stage breast …

IA Olivotto, ML Lesperance, PT Truong, A Nichol… - J Clin …, 2009 - researchgate.net
… Truong, Alan Nichol, Tanya Berrang, Scott Tyldesley, François Germain, Caroline Speers,
Elaine Wai, Caroline Holloway, Winkle Kwan, and Hagen Kennecke … Truong, Alan Nichol …