Over the past decade, numerous studies have attempted to enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy (external beam radiotherapy and internal radioisotope therapy) for cancer treatment. However, the low radiation absorption coefficient and radiation resistance of tumors remain major critical challenges for radiotherapy in the clinic. With the development of nanomedicine, nanomaterials in combination with radiotherapy offer the possibility to improve the efficiency of radiotherapy in tumors. Nanomaterials act not only as radiosensitizers to enhance radiation energy, but also as nanocarriers to deliver therapeutic units in combating radiation resistance. In this review, we discuss opportunities for a synergistic cancer therapy by combining radiotherapy based on nanomaterials designed for chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy, photothermal therapy, gas therapy, genetic therapy, and immunotherapy. We highlight how nanomaterials can be utilized to amplify antitumor radiation responses and describe cooperative enhancement interactions among these synergistic therapies. Moreover, the potential challenges and future prospects of radio-based nanomedicine to maximize their synergistic efficiency for cancer treatment are identified.
This study addresses the problem of choosing the most suitable probabilistic model selection criterion for unsupervised learning
of visual context of a dynamic scene using mixture models. A rectified Bayesian Information Criterion (BICr) and a Completed
Likelihood Akaike’s Information Criterion (CL-AIC) are formulated to estimate the optimal model order (complexity) for a given
visual scene. Both criteria are designed to overcome poor model selection by existing popular criteria when the data sample
size varies from small to large and the true mixture distribution kernel functions differ from the assumed ones. Extensive
experiments on learning visual context for dynamic scene modelling are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of BICr
and CL-AIC, compared to that of existing popular model selection criteria including BIC, AIC and Integrated Completed Likelihood
(ICL). Our study suggests that for learning visual context using a mixture model, BICr is the most appropriate criterion given
sparse data, while CL-AIC should be chosen given moderate or large data sample sizes. 相似文献