Dong Joo Rhee, PHD
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics - Pt Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2021 | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, US, Medical Physics, PhD |
| 2013 | Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US, Medical Physics, MSc |
| 2011 | Imperial College London, London, England, GB, Physics, BSc |
Postgraduate Training
| 2021-2023 | Resident, Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
Experience & Service
Other Appointments/Responsibilities
Graduate Research Assistant, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2017 - 2021
Researcher, Dongnam Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Busan, Busan, 2013 - 2016
Honors & Awards
| Merit-based Scholarships, Duke University | |
| Summer Research Scholarship, Duke University | |
| Young Investigator Award, Korean Society of Medical Physics | |
| Ellen Taylor Goldin Legacy Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center | |
| Science Council Abstract Winner, American Association of Physicists in Medicine | |
| OpenKBP Challenge 2nd place (Dose Stream), American Association of Physicists in Medicine | |
| Michael D. Mills Editor in Chief Award of Excellence for an Outstanding General Medical Physics Article, American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Sjogreen C, Netherton TJ, Lee A, Soliman M, Gay SS, Nguyen C, Mumme R, Vazquez I, Rhee DJ, Cardenas CE, Martel MK, Beadle BM, Court LE. Landmark-based auto-contouring of clinical target volumes for radiotherapy of nasopharyngeal cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 25(9):e14474, 2024. PMID: 39074490.
- Wang, H, Yang, J, Lee, A, Phan, J, Lim, TY, Fuller, C, Han, EY, Rhee, DJ, Salzillo, TC, Zhao, Y, Chopra, N, Pham, M, Castillo, P, Sobremonte, A, Moreno, AC, Reddy, JP, Rosenthal, D, Garden, AS, Wang, X. MR-guided stereotactic radiation therapy for head and neck cancers. Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology 46, 2024. PMID: 38510980.
- He Y, Cazoulat G, Wu C, Svensson S, Almodovar-Abreu L, Rigaud B, McCollum E, Peterson C, Wooten Z, Rhee DJ, Balter P, Pollard-Larkin J, Cardenas C, Court L, Liao Z, Mohan R, Brock K. Quantifying the Effect of 4-Dimensional Computed Tomography-Based Deformable Dose Accumulation on Representing Radiation Damage for Patients with Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Standard-Fractionated Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 118(1):231-241, 2024. PMID: 37552151.
- Gay, SS, Kisling, K, Anderson, BM, Zhang, L, Rhee, DJ, Nguyen, C, Netherton, T, Yang, J, Brock, K, Jhingran, A, Simonds, H, Klopp, AH, Beadle, BM, Court, LE, Cardenas, CE. Identifying the optimal deep learning architecture and parameters for automatic beam aperture definition in 3D radiotherapy. Journal of applied clinical medical physics 24(12), 2023. PMID: 37670488.
- Hernandez S, Burger H, Nguyen C, Paulino AC, Lucas JT, Faught AM, Duryea J, Netherton T, Rhee DJ, Cardenas C, Howell R, Fuentes D, Pollard-Larkin J, Court L, Parkes J. Validation of an automated contouring and treatment planning tool for pediatric craniospinal radiation therapy. Front Oncol 13(None):1221792, 2023. PMID: 37810961.
- Muya, S, Ndumbalo, J, Kutika Nyagabona, S, Yusuf, S, Rhee, DJ, Mushi, BP, Li, B, Zhang, L, Grover, S, Feng, M, Hsu, IJ, Mmbaga, E, Van Loon, K, Court, LE, Xu, MJ. Feasibility and Clinical Acceptability of Automation-Assisted 3D Conformal Radiotherapy Planning for Patients with Cervical Cancer in a Resource-Constrained Setting. JCO Global Oncology 9, 2023. PMID: 37725767.
- Rhee DJ, Beddar S, Jaoude JA, Sawakuchi G, Martin R, Perles L, Yu C, He Y, Court LE, Ludmir EB, Koong AC, Das P, Koay EJ, Taniguichi C, Niedzielski JS. Dose Escalation for Pancreas SBRT: Potential and Limitations of using Daily Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy and an Iterative Isotoxicity Automated Planning Approach. Adv Radiat Oncol 8(4):101164, 2023. PMID: 36798731.
- Xiao Y, Cardenas C, Rhee DJ, Netherton T, Zhang L, Nguyen C, Douglas R, Mumme R, Skett S, Patel T, Trauernicht C, Chung C, Simonds H, Aggarwal A, Court L. Customizable landmark-based field aperture design for automated whole-brain radiotherapy treatment planning. J Appl Clin Med Phys 24(3):e13839, 2023. PMID: 36412092.
- Hernandez S, Nguyen C, Parkes J, Burger H, Rhee DJ, Netherton T, Mumme R, Vega JG, Duryea J, Leone A, Paulino AC, Cardenas C, Howell R, Fuentes D, Pollard-Larkin J, Court L. Automating the treatment planning process for 3D-conformal pediatric craniospinal irradiation therapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer 70(3):e30164, 2023. PMID: 36591994.
- Nelson CL, Nguyen C, Fang R, Court LE, Cardenas CE, Rhee DJ, Netherton TJ, Mumme RP, Gay S, Gay C, Marquez B, El Basha MD, Zhao Y, Gronberg M, Hernandez S, Nealon KA, Martel MK, Yang J. A real-time contouring feedback tool for consensus-based contour training. Front Oncol 13(None):1204323, 2023. PMID: 37771435.
- Yu C, Anakwenze CP, Zhao Y, Martin RM, Ludmir EB, S Niedzielski J, Qureshi A, Das P, Holliday EB, Raldow AC, Nguyen CM, Mumme RP, Netherton TJ, Rhee DJ, Gay SS, Yang J, Court LE, Cardenas CE. Multi-organ segmentation of abdominal structures from non-contrast and contrast enhanced CT images. Sci Rep 12(1):19093, 2022. PMID: 36351987.
- Netherton TJ, Nguyen C, Cardenas CE, Chung C, Klopp AH, Colbert LE, Rhee DJ, Peterson CB, Howell R, Balter P, Court LE. An Automated Treatment Planning Framework for Spinal Radiation Therapy and Vertebral-Level Second Check. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 114(3):516-528, 2022. PMID: 35787928.
- Rhee DJ, Jhingran A, Huang K, Netherton TJ, Fakie N, White I, Sherriff A, Cardenas CE, Zhang L, Prajapati S, Kry SF, Beadle BM, Shaw W, O'Reilly F, Parkes J, Burger H, Trauernicht C, Simonds H, Court LE. Clinical acceptability of fully automated external beam radiotherapy for cervical cancer with three different beam delivery techniques. Med Phys 49(9):5742-5751, 2022. PMID: 35866442.
- Huang K, Das P, Olanrewaju AM, Cardenas C, Fuentes D, Zhang L, Hancock D, Simonds H, Rhee DJ, Beddar S, Briere TM, Court L. Automation of radiation treatment planning for rectal cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(9):e13712, 2022. PMID: 35808871.
- Rhee, DJ, Anakwenze, C, Rigaud, B, Jhingran, A, Cardenas, CE, Zhang, L, Prajapati, S, Kry, SF, Brock, K, Beadle, BM, Shaw, W, O'Reilly, F, Parkes, J, Burger, H, Fakie, N, Trauernicht, C, Simonds, H, Court, LE. Automatic contouring QA method using a deep learning–based autocontouring system. Journal of applied clinical medical physics 23(8), 2022. PMID: 35580067.
- Han EY, Cardenas CE, Nguyen C, Hancock D, Xiao Y, Mumme R, Court LE, Rhee DJ, Netherton TJ, Li J, Yeboa DN, Wang C, Briere TM, Balter P, Martel MK, Wen Z. Clinical implementation of automated treatment planning for whole-brain radiotherapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(9):94-102, 2021. PMID: 34250715.
- Gronberg MP, Gay SS, Netherton TJ, Rhee DJ, Court LE, Cardenas CE. Technical Note: Dose prediction for head and neck radiotherapy using a three-dimensional dense dilated U-net architecture. Med Phys 48(9):5567-5573, 2021. PMID: 34157138.
- Hernandez S, Sjogreen C, Gay SS, Nguyen C, Netherton T, Olanrewaju A, Zhang LJ, Rhee DJ, Mendez JD, Court LE, Cardenas CE. Development and dosimetric assessment of an automatic dental artifact classification tool to guide artifact management techniques in a fully automated treatment planning workflow. Comput Med Imaging Graph 90(None):101907, 2021. PMID: 33845433.
- Huang, K, Rhee, DJ, Ger, R, Layman, RR, Yang, J, Cardenas, CE, Court, LE. Impact of slice thickness, pixel size, and CT dose on the performance of automatic contouring algorithms. Journal of applied clinical medical physics 22(5):168-174, 2021. PMID: 33779037.
- Zhao, Y, Rhee, DJ, Cardenas, CE, Court, LE, Yang, J. Training deep-learning segmentation models from severely limited data. Medical physics 48(4):1697-1706, 2021. PMID: 33474727.
- Rigaud B, Anderson BM, Yu ZH, Gobeli M, Cazoulat G, Soderberg J, Samuelsson E, Lidberg D, Ward C, Taku N, Cardenas C, Rhee DJ, Venkatesan AM, Peterson CB, Court L, Svensson S, Lofman F, Klopp AH, Brock KK. Automatic Segmentation Using Deep Learning to Enable Online Dose Optimization During Adaptive Radiation Therapy of Cervical Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(4):1096-1110, 2021. PMID: 33181248.
- Cardenas CE, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Skinner HD, Yang J, Rhee DJ, McCarroll RE, Netherton TJ, Gay SS, Zhang L, Court LE. Generating High-Quality Lymph Node Clinical Target Volumes for Head and Neck Cancer Radiation Therapy Using a Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Approach. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(3):801-812, 2021. PMID: 33068690.
- Netherton TJ, Rhee DJ, Cardenas CE, Chung C, Klopp AH, Peterson CB, Howell RM, Balter PA, Court LE. Evaluation of a multiview architecture for automatic vertebral labeling of palliative radiotherapy simulation CT images. Med Phys 47(11):5592-5608, 2020. PMID: 33459402.
- Rhee DJ, Jhingran A, Rigaud B, Netherton T, Cardenas CE, Zhang L, Vedam S, Kry S, Brock KK, Shaw W, O'Reilly F, Parkes J, Burger H, Fakie N, Trauernicht C, Simonds H, Court LE. Automatic contouring system for cervical cancer using convolutional neural networks. Med Phys 47(11):5648-5658, 2020. PMID: 32964477.
- Rhee DJ, Cardenas CE, Elhalawani H, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Garden AS, Peterson CB, Beadle BM, Court LE. Automatic detection of contouring errors using convolutional neural networks. Med Phys 46(11):5086-5097, 2019. PMID: 31505046.
- Cardenas CE, Anderson BM, Aristophanous M, Yang J, Rhee DJ, McCarroll RE, Mohamed ASR, Kamal M, Elgohari BA, Elhalawani HM, Fuller CD, Rao A, Garden AS, Court LE. Auto-delineation of oropharyngeal clinical target volumes using 3D convolutional neural networks. Phys Med Biol 63(21):215026, 2018. PMID: 30403188.
- Kisling KD, Ger RB, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Owens CA, Anderson BM, Lee J, Rhee DJ, Edward SS, Gay SS, He Y, David SD, Yang J, Nitsch PL, Balter PA, Urbauer DL, Peterson CB, Court LE, Dube S. A snapshot of medical physics practice patterns. J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(6):306-315, 2018. PMID: 30272385.
- Liu Y, Yin FF, Rhee D, Cai J. Accuracy of respiratory motion measurement of 4D-MRI: A comparison between cine and sequential acquisition. Med Phys 43(1):179, 2016. PMID: 26745910.
Other Articles
- Baroudi H, Brock KK, Cao W, Chen X, Chung C, Court LE, El Basha MD, Farhat M, Gay S, Gronberg MP, Gupta AC, Hernandez S, Huang K, Jaffray DA, Lim R, Marquez B, Nealon K, Netherton TJ, Nguyen CM, Reber B, Rhee DJ, Salazar RM, Shanker MD, Sjogreen C, Woodland M, Yang J, Yu C, Zhao Y Automated Contouring and Planning in Radiation Therapy: What Is 'Clinically Acceptable'?. Diagnostics (Basel) 13(4):None, 2023. PMID: 36832155.
- Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Rhee DJ, Court LE, Beadle BM The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence within Radiation Oncology Treatment Planning. Oncology 99(2):124-134, 2021. PMID: 33352552.
- Rhee, DJ, Jhingran, A, Kisling, K, Cardenas, CE, Simonds, H, Court, LE Automated Radiation Treatment Planning for Cervical Cancer. Seminars in radiation oncology 30(4):340-347, 2020. PMID: 32828389.
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CV information above last modified December 17, 2024