Jinzhong Yang, Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Regular Faculty Member, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2007 | Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, US, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D |
| 2001 | University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, CN, Electrical Engineering, M.S |
| 1998 | University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, CN, Electrical Engineering, BS |
| 1998 | University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, CN, Economic Management, BS |
Postgraduate Training
| 2007-2008 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Biomedical Image Analysis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2015 | Medical Physicist License awarded by the Texas Medical Board |
| 2015 | American Board of Radiology |
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Regular Faculty Member, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 2016 - Present
Associate Faculty Member, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 2015 - 2016
Other Professional Positions
Imaging Consortium Advisor, Varian Medical Systems, Houston, TX, 2015 - 2015
Computer Vision Scientist, Research and Development, ADF Solutions, Inc, Silver Spring, MD, 2006 - 2007
Temporary Member of Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, 2005 - 2005
Temporary Member of Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, 2004 - 2004
Extramural Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate Task Force for Research Integrity Officer Selection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - 2024
Primary member for Medical Physics Program, GSBS Academic Standards Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2023 - Present
Member, GSBS Scholarship Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2022 - 2023
Senator, Faculty Senate, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2022 - 2025
Alternate representative, GSBS Academic Standards Committee for Medical Physics Program, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2021 - 2023
Member, GSBS Medical Physics Program Admissions Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2019 - Present
Member, Faculty Academic Review Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2019 - 2022
Editorial Activities
Editorial Board Member, Scientific reports, 2025 - Present
Section Board Member, Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023 - Present
Associate Editor in Radiation Oncology, Frontiers in oncology, 2023 - Present
Guest Editor, Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023 - 2024
Ad-hoc Associate Editor, Medical Physics, 2016 - Present
Section Editor, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2016 - Present
Editorial Board Member, Austin Journal of Radiation Oncology and Cancer, 2014 - Present
Editorial Board Member, Recent Patents on Medical Imaging, 2012 - 2016
Member of Editorial Review Board, Artificial Intelligence Research, 2012 - 2014
Honors & Awards
| 2025 | Fellow of American Association of Physicists in Medicine, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) |
| 2021 | First Place, 2021 AAMD Student Writing Competition |
| 2021 | Michael D. Mills Editor in Chief Award of Excellence for an Outstanding General Medical Physics Article published in The Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) |
| 2020 | Radiation Physics Publication of the Month for August 2020, Department of Radiation Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| 2010 | Second Prize, MICCAI Workshop - Head & Neck Autosegmentation Challenge |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
Local Presentations
- 2024. Adaptive Planning: Current & Future State. Invited. School of Health Professionals & Radiation Oncology Retreat. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2024. Imaging sequence, Imaging synthesis, and digital twins in MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy. Invited. MD Anderson Cancer Center. Houston, TX, US.
- 2024. Emerging Technologies, Innovations, and Advances in MR Linac. Invited. MD Anderson Cancer Center. Houston, TX, US.
- 2023. MRgRT: Workflow, Technology and QA Concerns. Invited. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Houston, TX, US.
- 2018. Current Status of Auto-segmentation in Radiation Oncology. Invited. MD Anderson Cancer Center. Houston, TX, US.
- 2018. Automatic Segmentation: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond. Invited. MD Anderson Cancer Center. Houston, TX, US.
Regional Presentations
- 2025. AI for cardiotoxicity prediction toward personalized RT planning. Invited. UTSW/MDACC Personalized Radiotherapy Symposium. Dallas, TX, US.
- 2023. Image synthesis and quality assurance for MR-based adaptive treatment planning. Invited. MDACC/UTSW Advanced Imaging Symposium. Houston, TX, US.
- 2022. MR-Linac Updates. Invited. Division of Radiation Oncology MD Anderson Cancer Network. Virtual, US.
National Presentations
- 2025. Localized Treatments for Kidney Cancer — Workshop. Invited. International Kidney Cancer Symposium: North America (IKCSNA25). Denver, Colorado, US.
- 2025. Methods to Evaluation of Image Segmentation: An Introduction to TG-424. Invited. AAPM. Washington DC, US.
- 2025. Auto Contouring: Physicists' Experiences with New AI-Based Solutions - Experience from MD Anderson Cancer Center. Invited. 2025 Radiosurgery Society Scientific Meeting. Tucson, Arizona, US.
- 2025. Innovating radiotherapy with MR-guided online adaptive planning using a 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac. Invited. Texas Radiological Society 111th Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, US.
- 2024. Clinical Implementation of an MR-Linac Adaptive Program. Invited. MRLinac Physics/Dosimetry Educational Lecture Series. Webinar, US.
- 2024. Respiratory Motion Management using Compression Belt for MR-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy of Kidney Cancer. Conference. Elekta Unity Adaptive User Meeting. Dallas, TX, US.
- 2024. MRI sequence optimization for cardiac chamber segmentation in MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy for lung cancer. Conference. Elekta Unity Adaptive User Meeting. Dallas, TX, US.
- 2023. Image Computing Techniques for MR-Guided Online Adaptive Radiotherapy. Invited. Department of Medical Physics. New York City, NY, US.
- 2023. Clinical Implementation of Auto Segmentation. Invited. ASTRO. San Diego, CA, US.
- 2022. MRgRT: Workflow, Technology, and QA Concerns. Invited. Radiation Oncology. Webinar, US.
- 2022. AI Auto-Segmentation: Clinical Implementation Concerns and Commissioning Guidelines. Invited. AAPM. Washington DC, DC, US.
- 2022. MR-based treatment planning workflow for treating cardiac metastases with MR-Linac. Conference. Elekta. Houston, TX, US.
- 2022. MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy with a 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac: Workflow and QA concerns. Invited. Great Lakes Chapter (GLC) of AAPM. Detroit, MI, US.
- 2022. Quality Assurance for Adaptive Radiotherapy. Invited. Missouri River Valley (MRV) AAPM, US.
- 2022. Clinical Implementation of a MRgRT Quality Management Program. Invited. Sun Nuclear Corp. Orlando, FL, US.
- 2021. Clinical Implementation of a MRgRT Quality Management Program. Invited. SunNuclear Corp. Webinar, US.
- 2020. Variable margin expansion to account for MR image distortion in treatment planning. Conference. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting, US.
- 2020. Online adaptive planning strategy. Conference. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting, US.
- 2019. Clinical Experience of Patient-Specific QA for Online Adaptive Radiotherapy Using Elekta Unity MR-Linac. Conference. AAPM. San Antonio, TX, US.
- 2019. Segmentation. Invited. AAPM Summer School. Burlington, VT, US.
- 2017. Auto-Segmentation for Thoracic Radiation Treatment Planning: A Grand Challenge. Invited. AAPM. Denver, CO, US.
- 2017. Development of An MRI Radiomics Phantom. Conference. AAPM. Denver, CO, US.
- 2017. Automated Radiation Treatment Planning for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Invited. Global Oncology Symposium: Cancer Care in Resource Challenged Environments. Houston, TX, US.
- 2017. Fully Automatic Segmentation of Normal Tissue for Head and Neck Auto-Planning. Invited. Varian Research Partnership Symposium. Chicago, IL, US.
- 2017. Clinical experience of multi-atlas segmentation. Invited. SWAAPM. Fort Worth, TX, US.
- 2015. Evaluation of Automatic Segmentation of Critical Structures for Head-And-Neck and Thoracic Radiotherapy Planning. Conference. AAPM. Anaheim, CA, US.
- 2014. Online atlas selection using 3D Gabor features. Conference. AAPM. Austin, TX, US.
- 2014. Density correction for deformable image registration to improve CT number mapping. Conference. AAPM. Austin, TX, US.
- 2014. Multi-atlas Segmentation Applied to Esophagus Delineation. Invited. Philips Medical Systems. Fitchburg, WI, US.
- 2013. Atlas Ranking and Selection for Multi-Atlas Segmentation. Conference. AAPM. Indianapolis, IN, US.
- 2013. A novel multi-atlas segmentation approach applied to esophagus delineation for thoracic oncology applications. Invited. Autoseg 2013 Workshop. Boston, MA, US.
- 2013. Multi-atlas Segmentation Applied to Esophagus Delineation for Thoracic Oncology Applications. Invited. UCSD Radiation Oncology Academic Seminar Series. San Diego, CA, US.
- 2012. Multi-atlas fusion using a tissue appearance model. Conference. AAPM. Charlottee, NC, US.
- 2012. Multi-modality and multi-atlas fusion for automatic delineation of normal brain structures. Invited. Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference (SBEC). Houston, TX, US.
- 2010. A Statistical Modeling Method for Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Breast Contours. Conference. RSNA. Chicago, IL, US.
- 2010. Variable Planning Margin Approach to Account for Locoregional Variations of Setup Uncertainties. Conference. AAPM. Philadelphia, PA, US.
- 2008. Spatial Normalization of Diffusion Tensor Images Based on Anisotropic Segmentation. Conference. SPIE Medical Imaging. San Diego, CA, US.
- 2006. A Region-Based Image Fusion Method Using the Expectation- Maximization Algorithm. Conference. Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS). Princeton, NJ, US.
- 2005. Multi-frame Image Fusion Using the Expectation- Maximization Algorithm. Conference. International Conference on Information Fusion. Philadelphia, PA, US.
International Presentations
- 2025. Breath-Hold Treatment using Unity Comprehensive Motion Management (CMM) – MD Anderson Experience. Invited. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting. London, GB.
- 2023. Treating cardiac mets on the 1.5T Unity MR-linac: a case series from Houston. Invited. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting. Amsterdam, NL.
- 2022. MRgRT Research and Clinical Applications. Invited. Medical Physics Program. Online lecture.
- 2022. MRgRT - Technology and QA concerns. Invited. Medical Physics Program. Online lecture.
- 2019. Patient-specific QA for Unity Treatment: MDACC Experience. Conference. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting. Copenhagen, DK.
- 2019. MR-Linac Clinical/Technical Implementation. Conference. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting. Copenhagen, DK.
- 2018. Auto-Segmentation: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond. Invited. Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Hefei. Hefei, CN.
- 2018. Fundaments of image registration. Invited. Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital of Fujian. Zhangzhou, CN.
- 2018. Auto-Segmentation: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond. Invited. Xiangya Hospital Central South University. Changsha, CN.
- 2018. CT and CBCT: From principle to practice. Invited. The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University. Xiamen, CN.
- 2018. Auto-Segmentation: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond. Invited. The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University. Xiamen, CN.
- 2018. Auto-segmentation and radiomics in radiation oncology: The fundamentals. Invited. The Fifth Affiliated Hospital Sun Yat-sen University. Zhuhai, CN.
- 2015. Image segmentation using prior knowledge. Invited. Autoseg 2015 Workshop. Tornoto, CA.
- 2014. Image Segmentation Using Prior Knowledge. Invited. Varian Medical Systems Imaging Laboratory GmbH. Baden, CH.
Formal Peers
- 2025. MR in RT II: MR-Guided Adaptive Therapy. Houston, Texas, US.
Grant & Contract Support
| Date: | 2024 - 2026 |
| Title: | Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mpMRI) Biomarkers for Personalized High Precision Prostate Cancer Stereotactic Radiotherapy |
| Funding Source: | UTMDACC Institutional Research Grant |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2024 - 2026 |
| Title: | Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Decision Making for MR-Guided Online Adaptive Radiotherapy |
| Funding Source: | FY23 Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Fellowship Award |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2024 - 2026 |
| Title: | AI-Assisted Decision Making in MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancers |
| Funding Source: | FY24 Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Fellowship Award |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2024 - 2026 |
| Title: | Uncertainty management for radiation treatment of CT invisible tumors |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2024 - 2026 |
| Title: | Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers for Personalized Prostate Cancer Stereotactic Radiotherapy |
| Funding Source: | UTMDACC Institutional Research Grant |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2022 - 2025 |
| Title: | Radiotherapy contouring and treatment planning toolkit for clinical trials |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-PI |
| ID: | 1U01CA274503 |
| Date: | 2022 - 2026 |
| Title: | AI-Driven Reliable CT Perfusion Measurements for Tumors with Motion |
| Funding Source: | MD Anderson - FY22 QIAC Partnership in Research Program |
| Role: | Co-PI |
| Date: | 2022 - 2024 |
| Title: | Heart toxicity management for lung cancer with MR-guided radiotherapy |
| Funding Source: | Radiation Oncology Institute (ROI) |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2022 - 2023 |
| Title: | Safety and Feasibility of Stereotactic MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Central Lung Tumors |
| Funding Source: | Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) |
| Role: | Other Significant Contributor |
| ID: | FP00015665 |
| Date: | 2022 - 2023 |
| Title: | Safety and Feasibility of Stereotactic MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Central Lung Tumors |
| Funding Source: | American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) |
| Role: | Other Significant Contributor |
| ID: | FP00015924 |
| Date: | 2022 - 2024 |
| Title: | Innovating Spine Radiosurgery by MR-Guided Linear Accelerators |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-PI |
| ID: | FP00012369_RES1 |
| Date: | 2021 - 2025 |
| Title: | Tumor Measurement Initiative |
| Funding Source: | MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Role: | Co-PI |
| Date: | 2021 - 2023 |
| Title: | Innovating Spine Radiosurgery by using MR-Guided Linear Accelerators |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-PI |
| Date: | 2020 - 2025 |
| Title: | Deep learning for fully automated multi-modality segmentation of gross tumor volumes |
| Funding Source: | MD Anderson Cancer Center Start-up Funds |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2019 - 2021 |
| Title: | Proton Therapy to Reduce Heart Damage for Lung Cancer Patients |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 1R21CA222749 |
| Date: | 2018 - 2020 |
| Title: | Hippocampus segmentation for definitive brain radiotherapy |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2018 - 2021 |
| Title: | The Radiation Planning Assistant (RPA) for Radiation Therapy Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 4UH3CA202665-03 |
| Date: | 2018 - 2022 |
| Title: | Development of a Contour Evaluation Platform to Improve Radiation Oncology Education |
| Funding Source: | Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2018 - 2019 |
| Title: | A Tool to Automate Serial MRI Quantitative Imaging Studies |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2017 - 2020 |
| Title: | Variable margin expansion to account for the MR image distortion in MR-based treatment planning |
| Funding Source: | Elekta |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2017 - 2020 |
| Title: | imaging Radiation-Associated Dysphagia (iRAD) |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 1R01CA218148 |
| Date: | 2017 - 2019 |
| Title: | Variable margin strategy for personalized radiation treatment planning |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2016 - 2019 |
| Title: | Variable margin strategy for planning target volume expansion to account for nonrigid setup uncertainties for personalized radiation treatment planning |
| Funding Source: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2016 - 2020 |
| Title: | Consistent cardiac substructure segmentation for accurate radiation-induced toxicity analysis |
| Funding Source: | UTMDACC Institutional Research Grant |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2016 - 2018 |
| Title: | Hybrid model-based and atlas-based automatic segmentation for treatment planning |
| Funding Source: | Varian Medical Systems |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2016 - 2019 |
| Title: | The Radiation Planning Assistant (RPA) for Radiation Therapy Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | UH2 CA202665-01 |
| Date: | 2016 - 2018 |
| Title: | A tool for quantifying esophagitis in clinical trials |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2016 - 2019 |
| Title: | Dependence of cardiac troponin expression on the magnitude and distribution of heart radiation dose in NSCLC patients after chemoradiation |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2015 - 2019 |
| Title: | Improving the Clinical Effectiveness and Understanding of the Biophysical Basis of Proton Therapy: Project 3 - Assessing accuracy of proton therapy and understanding the impact of physical and biophysical factors on its outcomes |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | 2U19CA021239-36 |
| Date: | 2015 - 2018 |
| Title: | Advanced Volumetric Imaging and Adaptive Radiotherapy for Detecting and Correcting for Inter-fractional Changes |
| Funding Source: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) |
| Role: | PI |
| ID: | RP110562-P2 |
| Date: | 2014 - 2015 |
| Title: | Evaluation of MR Image Distortion On Dose Distribution In The Presence Of Magnetic Field |
| Funding Source: | Elekta |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2014 - 2017 |
| Title: | Uncertainty analysis of deformable image registration for adaptive radiotherapy |
| Funding Source: | Varian Medical Systems |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2014 - 2017 |
| Title: | Gross to clinical target volume expansion: A population to individual margin model |
| Funding Source: | Varian Medical Systems |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2013 - 2015 |
| Title: | Online selection of optimal atlas candidates for atlas-based auto- segmentation |
| Funding Source: | Varian Medical Systems |
| Role: | PI |
| Date: | 2013 - 2015 |
| Title: | Multimodality driven optimization of target definition in radiation therapy |
| Funding Source: | Varian Medical Systems |
| Role: | Co-I |
| Date: | 2011 - 2018 |
| Title: | Quality Assurance Core |
| Funding Source: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) |
| Role: | Co-I |
| ID: | RP110562-C2 |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Reiazi, R, Ding, Y, Vijayan, S, Yang, J, Subashi, ED, Zhao, Y, Lee, B, Emory, HL, Dinh, V, Swiedom, GL, Deng, J, Lin, MH, Balter, PA, Kudchadker, RJ, Cha, E, Choi, S, Kim, Y, Han, EY, Prajapati, S. Development and implementation of an MRI-only simulation, planning, and treatment workflow for prostate radiotherapy using synthetic CT on MR-linac. Journal of applied clinical medical physics 27(2), 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 41663318.
- Khaleghibizaki, M, Sobremonte, A, Perles, LA, Prajapati, S, Subashi, ED, Ding, Y, Brock, K, Barati, R, Koay, EJ, Tang, C, Yang, J. Dosimetric effect of abdominal compression in online adaptive planning for abdominal cancers treated with a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance-guided linear accelerator. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 37, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Lin R, Chen M, Zhang X, Xu T, Xu T, Maguire RC, Corrigan KL, Koutroumpakis E, Chang JY, Lin SH, Chen AB, Nguyen QN, Gandhi SJ, Ning MS, Bronk J, Chun S, Ajdari A, Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Chen X, Pan T, Meng QH, Tsao AS, Deswal A, Mohan R, Liao Z. Bayesian Learning to Reduce Cardiac Risk for Locally Advanced NSCLC Patients Based on Personalized Radiotherapy Prescription. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41365476.
- Chen X, Zhang X, Xu T, Mohan R, Lin R, Chen M, Maguire RC, Zhao Y, Koutroumpakis E, Palaskas NL, Deswal A, Ajdari A, Niedzielski JS, Shete SS, Court LE, Yang J, Liao Z. Radiation doses to cardiac substructures predict elevation in high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) levels in radiotherapy for lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41110579.
- Chen, X, Ding, Y, Weng, JK, Wu, CC, Zhao, Y, Sobremonte, A, Mohammedsaid, M, Xu, Z, Zhang, X, Niedzielski, JS, Shete, S, Court, LE, Liao, Z, Wang, J, Subashi, ED, Lee, PP, Yang, J. Deep Learning-Based Cardiac Chamber Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy. Advances in Radiation Oncology 10(9), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40808698.
- Yuan L, Chen Q, Al-Hallaq H, Yang J, Yang X, Geng H, Latifi K, Cai B, Wu QJ, Xiao Y, Benedict SH, Rong Y, Buchsbaum J, Qi XS. Quantitative Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence-Based Organ Segmentation Across Multiple Anatomic Sites Using 8 Commercial Software Platforms. Pract Radiat Oncol 16(1):e47-e59, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40854402.
- Ding, Y, Salzillo, TC, Yeboa, DN, Tom, MC, Wang, Z, Diagaradjane, P, Subashi, ED, Yang, J, Swanson, T, Beckham, TH, Wang, C, Ghia, AJ, Briere, TM, Wang, J, Lathuilière, F, Cloake, S, Han, EY. Optimizing Motion Management and Baseline Shifts in Magnetic Resonance-Guided Spine Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. Cancers 17(16), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40867326.
- McCullum L, van Rijssel MJ, Hwang KP, Ding Y, Tang C, Hassanzadeh C, Yang J, Balter PA, Wang J, Fuller CD, Subashi ED. Feasibility of Longitudinal Relaxation Rate Mapping with Non-Cartesian Sampling and Compressed Sensing on a 1.5T MR-Linac. medRxiv, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40766153.
- Li R, Zhao Y, Lin J, Chiu T, Lu W, Yang J, Lin MH. Feasibility of Monte Carlo-based patient-specific quality assurance in 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance-guided online adaptive radiotherapy: a multi-institutional study. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 35:100800, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40687303.
- Yu JB, Grew D, Sculley E, Siva S, Hardcastle N, Tang C, Yang J, Kim M, Lo SS. Practical Considerations for the Treatment of Primary Renal Cell Carcinoma With SABR. Pract Radiat Oncol 15(6):625-631, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40323243.
- Yu C, Gay SS, Gupta AC, Martin-Paulpeter RM, Ludmir EB, Zhao Y, Duryea J, Chen X, Cardenas CE, Yang J, Koong AC, Netherton TJ, Rhee DJ, Court LE. Uncertainty-guided pancreatic tumor auto-segmentation with Tversky ensemble. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 34:100740, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40276495.
- Wang H, Alsanea FM, Rhee DJ, Zhang X, Liu W, Yang J, Wen Z, Zhao Y, Williamson TD, Hunter RA, Balter PA, Briere TM, Zhu RX, Lee A, Moreno AC, Reddy JP, Garden AS, Rosenthal DI, Gunn GB, Phan J. Advanced External Beam Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Skull Base Reirradiation. Cancers (Basel) 17(3), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39941906.
- Chen X, Zhao Y, Baroudi H, El Basha MD, Daniel A, Gay SS, Yu C, Wang H, Phan J, Choi SL, Goodman CR, Zhang X, Niedzielski JS, Shete SS, Court LE, Liao Z, Lofman F, Balter PA, Yang J. Comparison of Vendor-Pretrained and Custom-Trained Deep Learning Segmentation Models for Head-and-Neck, Breast, and Prostate Cancers. Diagnostics (Basel) 14(24), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39767212.
- Zhao Y, Cozma A, Ding Y, Perles LA, Reiazi R, Chen X, Kang A, Prajapati S, Yu H, Subashi ED, Brock K, Wang J, Beddar S, Lee B, Mohammedsaid M, Cooper S, Westley R, Tree A, Mohamad O, Hassanzadeh C, Mok H, Choi S, Tang C, Yang J. Upper Urinary Tract Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Using a 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Linear Accelerator: Workflow and Physics Considerations. Cancers (Basel) 16(23), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39682173.
- Shanker, MD, Yu, ZH, Yang, J, Matin, S, Campbell, M, Msaouel, P, Tannir, NM, Prajapati, S, Ding, Y, Lee, B, Sobremonte, A, Tang, C. MR-Linac-guided stereotactic radiotherapy for CT-indiscernible intravascular renal cell carcinoma tumours. BJUI Compass 5(10):913-915, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39416759.
- Zhao Y, Wang X, Phan J, Chen X, Lee A, Yu C, Huang K, Court LE, Pan T, Wang H, Wahid KA, Mohamed ASR, Naser M, Fuller CD, Yang J. Multi-modal segmentation with missing image data for automatic delineation of gross tumor volumes in head and neck cancers. Med Phys 51(10):7295-7307, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38896829.
- Wang H, Yang J, Lee A, Phan J, Lim TY, Fuller CD, Han EY, Rhee DJ, Salzillo T, 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. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol 46:100760, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38510980.
- Chen X, Zhao Y, Court LE, Wang H, Pan T, Phan J, Wang X, Ding Y, Yang J. SC-GAN: Structure-completion generative adversarial network for synthetic CT generation from MR images with truncated anatomy. Comput Med Imaging Graph 113:102353, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38387114.
- Murr M, Bernchou U, Bubula-Rehm E, Ruschin M, Sadeghi P, Voet P, Winter JD, Yang J, Younus E, Zachiu C, Zhao Y, Zhong H, Thorwarth D. A multi-institutional comparison of retrospective deformable dose accumulation for online adaptive magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 30:100588, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38883145.
- Wang X, van Rossum PSN, Chu Y, Hobbs BP, Grassberger C, Hong TS, Liao Z, Yang J, Zhang X, Netherton T, Mohan R, Lin SH. Severe Lymphopenia During Chemoradiation Therapy for Esophageal Cancer: Comprehensive Analysis of Randomized Phase 2B Trial of Proton Beam Therapy Versus Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 118(2):368-377, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 37652304.
- Chen X, Mumme RP, Corrigan KL, Mukai-Sasaki Y, Koutroumpakis E, Palaskas NL, Nguyen CM, Zhao Y, Huang K, Yu C, Xu T, Daniel A, Balter PA, Zhang X, Niedzielski JS, Shete SS, Deswal A, Court LE, Liao Z, Yang J. Deep learning-based automatic segmentation of cardiac substructures for lung cancers. Radiother Oncol 191:110061, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38122850.
- Hughes N, Salzillo TC, Vedam S, Lim TY, Wang X, Wang H, Mohammedsaid M, Fuller CD, Wang J, Yang J. A look-up-table development to facilitate CT simulation of MR-Linac treatment. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 29:100524, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38192414.
- Chen X, Weng JK, Sobremonte A, Lee BM, Hughes NW, Mohammedsaid M, Zhao Y, Wang X, Zhang X, Niedzielski JS, Shete SS, Court LE, Liao Z, Lee PP, Yang J. Case report: Cardiac neuroendocrine carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma treated with MR-guided adaptive stereotactic radiation therapy. Front Oncol 14:1411474, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39351356.
- Gay SS, Kisling KD, Anderson BM, Zhang L, Rhee DJ, Nguyen C, Netherton T, Yang J, Brock K, Jhingran A, Simonds H, Klopp A, Beadle BM, Court LE, Cardenas CE. Identifying the optimal deep learning architecture and parameters for automatic beam aperture definition in 3D radiotherapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 24(12):e14131, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37670488.
- Gay SS, Cardenas CE, Nguyen C, Netherton TJ, Yu C, Zhao Y, Skett S, Patel T, Adjogatse D, Guerrero Urbano T, Naidoo K, Beadle BM, Yang J, Aggarwal A, Court LE. Fully-Automated, CT-only GTV Contouring for Palliative Head and Neck Radiotherapy. Sci Rep 13(1):21797, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38066074.
- Court LE, Aggarwal A, Burger H, Cardenas C, Chung C, Douglas R, du Toit M, Jhingran A, Mumme R, Muya S, Naidoo K, Ndumbalo J, Netherton T, Nguyen C, Olanrewaju A, Parkes J, Shaw W, Trauernicht C, Xu M, Yang J, Zhang L, Simonds H, Beadle BM. Radiation Planning Assistant - A Web-based Tool to Support High-quality Radiotherapy in Clinics with Limited Resources. J Vis Exp 2023(200), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37870317.
- Zhao Y, Chen X, McDonald B, Yu C, Mohamed ASR, Fuller CD, Court LE, Pan T, Wang H, Wang X, Phan J, Yang J. A transformer-based hierarchical registration framework for multimodality deformable image registration. Comput Med Imaging Graph 108:102286, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37625307.
- Joint Head and Neck Radiation Therapy-MRI Development Cooperative, MR-Linac Consortium Head and Neck Tumor Site Group. Longitudinal diffusion and volumetric kinetics of head and neck cancer magnetic resonance on a 1.5 T MR-linear accelerator hybrid system: A prospective R-IDEAL stage 2a imaging biomarker characterization/pre-qualification study. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol 42:100666, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37583808.
- Zhao Y, Wang H, Yu C, Court LE, Wang X, Wang Q, Pan T, Ding Y, Phan J, Yang J. Compensation cycle consistent generative adversarial networks (Comp-GAN) for synthetic CT generation from MR scans with truncated anatomy. Med Phys 50(7):4399-4414, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36698291.
- El-Habashy DM, Wahid KA, He R, McDonald B, Rigert J, Mulder SJ, Lim TY, Wang X, Yang J, Ding Y, Naser MA, Ng SP, Bahig H, Salzillo TC, Preston KE, Abobakr M, Shehata MA, Elkhouly EA, Alagizy HA, Hegazy AH, Mohammadseid M, Terhaard C, Philippens M, Rosenthal DI, Wang J, Lai SY, Dresner A, Christodouleas JC, Mohamed ASR, Fuller CD. Longitudinal diffusion and volumetric kinetics of head and neck cancer magnetic resonance on a 1.5T MR-Linear accelerator hybrid system: A prospective R-IDEAL Stage 2a imaging biomarker characterization/ pre-qualification study. medRxiv, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37205359.
- Zhao Y, Chen X, McDonald B, Yu C, Court LE, Pan T, Wang H, Wang X, Phan J, Yang J. Patch-RegNet: A Hierarchical Deformable Registration Framework for Inter-/intra-modality head-and-neck image registration with ViT-Morph. SPIE Medical Imaging 2023: Image Processing 12464, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Ziyaee H, Cardenas CE, Yeboa DN, Li J, Ferguson SD, Johnson J, Zhou Z, Sanders J, Mumme R, Court L, Briere T, Yang J. Automated Brain Metastases Segmentation With a Deep Dive Into False-positive Detection. Adv Radiat Oncol 8(1):101085, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36299565.
- 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 13:1204323, 2023. e-Pub 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. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36351987.
- Han EY, Yeboa DN, Briere TM, Yang J, Wang H. Dosimetric analysis of MR-LINAC treatment plans for salvage spine SBRT re-irradiation. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(10):e13752, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36004700.
- Han EY, Wang H, Briere TM, Yeboa DN, Boursianis T, Kalaitzakis G, Pappas E, Castillo P, Yang J. Brain stereotactic radiosurgery using MR-guided online adaptive planning for daily setup variation: An end-to-end test. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(3):e13518, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34994101.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Li Y, Ding Y, Kadbi M, Wang J. Impact of geometric distortion on dose deviation for photon and proton treatment plans. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(3):e13517, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35106908.
- Lim SY, Tran A, Tran ANK, Sobremonte A, Fuller CD, Simmons L, Yang J. Dose accumulation of daily adaptive plans to decide optimal plan adaptation strategy for head-and-neck patients treated with MR-Linac. Med Dosim 47(1):103-109, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34756493.
- Lakomy DS, Yang J, Vedam S, Wang J, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Castillo P, Hughes N, Mohammedsaid M, Jhingran A, Klopp AH, Choi S, Fuller CD, Lin LL. Clinical implementation and initial experience with a 1.5 Tesla MR-linac for MR-guided radiotherapy for gynecologic cancer: An R-IDEAL stage 1/2a first in humans/feasibility study of new technology implementation. Pract Radiat Oncol 12(4):e296-e305, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35278717.
- Weng J, Odwuor A, Yang J, Lee P. High-Field MR-Guided Radiation Therapy for Oligometastatic Central Lung Cancer: Current State and Future Opportunities. Appl Rad Oncol 10(4):40-47, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Wang J, Salzillo T, Jiang Y, Mackeyev Y, David Fuller C, Chung C, Choi S, Hughes N, Ding Y, Yang J, Vedam S, Krishnan S. Stability of MRI contrast agents in high-energy radiation of a 1.5T MR-Linac. Radiother Oncol 161:55-64, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34089753.
- Roberts DA, Sandin C, Vesanen PT, Lee H, Hanson IM, Nill S, Perik T, Lim SB, Vedam S, Yang J, Woodings SW, Wolthaus JWH, Keller B, Budgell G, Chen X, Li XA. Machine QA for the Elekta Unity system: A Report from the Elekta MR-Linac consortium. Med Phys 48(5):e67-e85, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33577091.
- Huang K, Rhee DJ, Ger R, Layman R, Yang J, Cardenas CE, Court LE. Impact of slice thickness, pixel size, and CT dose on the performance of automatic contouring algorithms. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(5):168-174, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33779037.
- McDonald BA, Vedam S, Yang J, Wang J, Castillo P, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Ahmed S, Ding Y, Mohamed ASR, Balter P, Hughes N, Thorwarth D, Nachbar M, Philippens MEP, Terhaard CHJ, Zips D, Böke S, Awan MJ, Christodouleas J, Fuller CD, Head MC, Site Group NT. Initial Feasibility and Clinical Implementation of Daily MR-guided Adaptive Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy on a 1.5T MR-Linac System: Prospective R-IDEAL 2a/2b Systematic Clinical Evaluation of Technical Innovation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(5):1606-1618, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33340604.
- Zhao Y, Rhee DJ, Cardenas C, Court LE, Yang J. Training deep-learning segmentation models from severely limited data. Med Phys 48(4):1697-1706, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33474727.
- 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 Radiotherapy Using a Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Approach. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(3):801-812, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33068690.
- Zhang Y, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter P, Dong L, Yang J. Tissue-specific deformable image registration using a spatial-contextual filter. Comput Med Imaging Graph 88:101849, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33412481.
- Chetvertkov MA, Vassiliev ON, Yang J, Wang HC, Liu AY, Liao Z, Mohan R. Impact of Intra-Fractional Motion on Dose Distributions in Lung IMRT. J Radiother Pract 20(1):12-16, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34168519.
- Lee J, Steinmann A, Ding Y, Lee H, Owens C, Wang J, Yang J, Followill D, Ger R, MacKin D, Court LE. Radiomics feature robustness as measured using an MRI phantom. Sci Rep 11(1):3973, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33597610.
- Yang J, Vedam S, Lee B, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Hughes N, Mohammedsaid M, Wang J, Choi S. Online adaptive planning for prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy using a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging-guided linear accelerator. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 17:20-24, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33898773.
- Niedzielski JS, Wei X, Xu T, Gomez DR, Liao Z, Bankson JA, Lai SY, Court LE, Yang J. Development and application of an elastic net logistic regression model to investigate the impact of cardiac substructure dose on radiation-induced pericardial effusion in patients with NSCLC. Acta Oncol 59(10):1193-1200, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32678696.
- Yang J, Veeraraghavan H, van Elmpt W, Dekker A, Gooding M, Sharp G. CT images with expert manual contours of thoracic cancer for benchmarking auto-segmentation accuracy. Med Phys 47(7):3250-3255, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32128809.
- Cardenas CE, Mohamed ASR, Yang J, Gooding M, Veeraraghavan H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Ng SP, Ding Y, Wang J, Lai SY, Fuller CD, Sharp G. Head and neck cancer patient images for determining auto-segmentation accuracy in T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging through expert manual segmentations. Med Phys 47(5):2317-2322, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32418343.
- Chen M, Yang J, Liao Z, Chen J, Xu C, He X, Zhang X, Zhu RX, Li H. Anatomic change over the course of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer patients and its impact on intensity-modulated radiation therapy and passive-scattering proton therapy deliveries. Radiat Oncol 15(1):55, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32138753.
- Heukelom J, Kantor ME, Mohamed ASR, Elhalawani H, Kocak-Uzel E, Lin T, Yang J, Aristophanous M, Rasch CR, Fuller CD, Sonke JJ. Differences between planned and delivered dose for head and neck cancer, and their consequences for normal tissue complication probability and treatment adaptation. Radiother Oncol 142:100-106, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31431381.
- Wu RY, Liu AY, Yang J, Williamson TD, Wisdom PG, Bronk L, Gao S, Grosshan DR, Fuller DC, Gunn GB, Ronald Zhu X, Frank SJ. Evaluation of the accuracy of deformable image registration on MRI with a physical phantom. J Appl Clin Med Phys 21(1):166-173, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31808307.
- Yang J, Mohamed ASR, Bahig H, Ding Y, Wang J, Ng SP, Lai S, Miller A, Hutcheson KA, Fuller CD. Automatic registration of 2D MR cine images for swallowing motion estimation. PLoS One 15(2):e0228652, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32045464.
- Han EY, Aima M, Hughes N, Briere TM, Yeboa DN, Castillo P, Wang J, Yang J, Vedam S. Feasibility of spinal stereotactic body radiotherapy in Elekta Unity® MR-Linac. J Radiosurg SBRT 7(2):127-134, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33282466.
- 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. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31505046.
- Wu RY, Liu AY, Williamson TD, Yang J, Wisdom PG, Zhu XR, Frank SJ, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Gao S. Quantifying the accuracy of deformable image registration for cone-beam computed tomography with a physical phantom. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(10):92-100, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31541526.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Shaitelman SF, Anderson D, Thebe T, Yang J, Balter PA, Howell RM, Jhingran A, Schmeler K, Simonds H, du Toit M, Trauernicht C, Burger H, Botha K, Joubert N, Beadle BM, Court L. Automated treatment planning of postmastectomy radiotherapy. Med Phys 46(9):3767-3775, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31077593.
- Mackin D, Ger R, Gay S, Dodge C, Zhang L, Yang J, Jones AK, Court L. Matching and Homogenizing Convolution Kernels for Quantitative Studies in Computed Tomography. Invest Radiol 54(5):288-295, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30570504.
- Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhang L, Balter P, Court L. Technical Note: Density correction to improve CT number mapping in thoracic deformable image registration. Med Phys 46(5):2330-2336, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30896047.
- Wang X, Yang J, Zhao Z, Luo D, Court L, Zhang Y, Weksberg D, Brown PD, Li J, Ghia AJ. Dosimetric impact of esophagus motion in single fraction spine stereotactic body radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol 64(11):115010, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31018191.
- Fang R, Yang J, Du W, Court L. Automatic detection of graticule isocenter and scale from kV and MV images. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(4):18-28, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30843335.
- Stecklein SR, Shaitelman SF, Babiera GV, Bedrosian I, Black DM, Ballo MT, Arzu I, Strom EA, Reed VK, Dvorak T, Smith BD, Woodward WA, Hoffman KE, Schlembach PJ, Kirsner SM, Nelson CL, Yang J, Guerra W, Dibaj S, Bloom ES. Prospective Comparison of Toxicity and Cosmetic Outcome After Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation with Conformal External Beam Radiotherapy or Single-Entry Multilumen Intracavitary Brachytherapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 9(1):e4-e13, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30125673.
- Luo Y, Xu Y, Liao Z, Gomez D, Wang J, Jiang W, Zhou R, Williamson R, Court LE, Yang J. Automatic segmentation of cardiac substructures from noncontrast CT images: accurate enough for dosimetric analysis?. Acta Oncol 58(1):1-7, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30306817.
- Ge S, Wang X, Liao Z, Zhang L, Sahoo N, Yang J, Guan F, Mohan R. Potential for Improvements in Robustness and Optimality of Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy for Lung Cancer with 4-Dimensional Robust Optimization. Cancers (Basel) 11(1), 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30609652.
- Wu RY, Liu AY, Wisdom P, Zhu XR, Frank SJ, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Palmer MB, Wages CA, Gillin MT, Yang J. Characterization of a new physical phantom for testing rigid and deformable image registration. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(1):145-153, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30580471.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Simonds H, Fakie N, Yang J, McCarroll R, Balter P, Burger H, Bogler O, Howell R, Schmeler K, Mejia M, Beadle BM, Jhingran A, Court L. Fully Automatic Treatment Planning for External-Beam Radiation Therapy of Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: A Tool for Low-Resource Clinics. J Glob Oncol 5:1-9, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30629457.
- 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. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30272385.
- 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. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30403188.
- Yang J, Veeraraghavan H, Armato SG, Farahani K, Kirby JS, Kalpathy-Kramer J, van Elmpt W, Dekker A, Han X, Feng X, Aljabar P, Oliveira B, van der Heyden B, Zamdborg L, Lam D, Gooding M, Sharp GC. Auto-segmentation for Thoracic Radiation Treatment Planning: A Grand Challenge at AAPM 2017. Med Phys 45(10):4568-4581, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30144101.
- Owens CA, Peterson CB, Tang C, Koay EJ, Yu W, Mackin DS, Li J, Salehpour MR, Fuentes DT, Court LE, Yang J. Lung tumor segmentation methods: Impact on the uncertainty of radiomics features for non-small cell lung cancer. PLoS One 13(10):e0205003, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30286184.
- Zhang Z, Yang J, Ho A, Jiang W, Logan J, Wang X, Brown PD, McGovern SL, Guha-Thakurta N, Ferguson SD, Fave X, Zhang L, Mackin D, Court LE, Li J. Correction to: A predictive model for distinguishing radiation necrosis from tumour progression after gamma knife radiosurgery based on radiomic features from MR images. Eur Radiol 28(8):3570-3571, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29541912.
- Ger RB, Yang J, Ding Y, Jacobsen MC, Cardenas CE, Fuller CD, Howell RM, Li H, Stafford RJ, Zhou S, Court LE. Synthetic Head and Neck and Phantom Images for Determining Deformable Image Registration Accuracy in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Med Phys 45(9):4315-4321, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30007075.
- McCarroll RE, Beadle BM, Balter PA, Burger H, Cardenas CE, Dalvie S, Followill DS, Kisling KD, Mejia M, Naidoo K, Nelson CL, Peterson CB, Vorster K, Wetter J, Zhang L, Court LE, Yang J. Retrospective Validation and Clinical Implementation of Automated Contouring of Organs at Risk in the Head and Neck: A Step toward Automated Radiation Treatment Planning for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. J Glob Oncol 4:1-11, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30110221.
- Zhang Z, Yang J, Ho A, Jiang W, Logan J, Wang X, Brown PD, McGovern SL, Guha-Thakurta N, Ferguson SD, Fave X, Zhang L, Mackin D, Court LE, Li J. A predictive model for distinguishing radiation necrosis from tumour progression after gamma knife radiosurgery based on radiomic features from MR images. Eur Radiol 28(6):2255-2263, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29178031.
- Cardenas CE, McCarroll RE, Court LE, Elgohari BA, Elhalawani H, Fuller CD, Kamal MJ, Meheissen MAM, Mohamed ASR, Rao A, Williams B, Wong A, Yang J, Aristophanous M. Deep Learning Algorithm for Auto-Delineation of High-Risk Oropharyngeal Clinical Target Volumes with Built-in Dice Similarity Coefficient Parameter Optimization Function. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 101(2):468-478, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29559291.
- Court LE, Kisling K, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Simonds H, du Toit M, Trauernicht C, Burger H, Parkes J, Mejia M, Bojador M, Balter P, Branco D, Steinmann A, Baltz G, Gay S, Anderson B, Cardenas C, Jhingran A, Shaitelman S, Bogler O, Schmeller K, Followill D, Howell R, Nelson C, Peterson C, Beadle B. Radiation Planning Assistant - A Streamlined, Fully Automated Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System. J Vis Exp(134), 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29708544.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Beddar S, Ibbott G, Wen Z, Court LE, Hwang KP, Kadbi M, Krishnan S, Fuller CD, Frank SJ, Yang J, Balter P, Kudchadker RJ, Wang J. A methodology to investigate the impact of image distortions on the radiation dose when using magnetic resonance images for planning. Phys Med Biol 63(8):085005, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29528037.
- Wang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Dong L, Balter PA, Court LE, Yang J. Technical Note: Solving the "Chinese postman problem" for effective contour deformation. Med Phys 45(2):767-772, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29178498.
- Mackin D, Ger R, Dodge C, Fave X, Chi PC, Zhang L, Yang J, Bache S, Dodge C, Jones AK, Court L. Effect of tube current on computed tomography radiomic features. Sci Rep 8(1):2354, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29403060.
- Ger RB, Cardenas CE, Anderson BM, Yang J, Mackin DS, Zhang L, Court LE. Guidelines and Experience Using Imaging Biomarker Explorer (IBEX) for Radiomics. J Vis Exp(131), 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29364284.
- Mackin D, Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Jones AK, Ng CS, Court L. Correction: Harmonizing the pixel size in retrospective computed tomography radiomics studies. PLoS One 13(1):e0191597, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29342209.
- Yang J, Haas B, Fang R, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Liao Z, Zhang L, Balter P, Court L. Atlas ranking and selection for automatic segmentation of the esophagus from CT scans. Phys Med Biol 62(23):9140-9158, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29049027.
- Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Mohan R, Titt U, Mirkovic D, Stingo F, Liao Z, Gomez DR, Martel MK, Briere TM, Court LE. Differences in Normal Tissue Response in the Esophagus Between Proton and Photon Radiation Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Using In Vivo Imaging Biomarkers. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 99(4):1013-1020, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29063837.
- Ger RB, Yang J, Ding Y, Jacobsen MC, Fuller CD, Howell RM, Li H, Stafford RJ, Zhou S, Court LE. Accuracy of Deformable Image Registration on Magnetic Resonance Images in Digital and Physical Phantoms. Med Phys 44(10):5153-5161, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28622410.
- Shiraishi Y, Xu C, Yang J, Komaki R, Lin SH. Dosimetric comparison to the heart and cardiac substructure in a large cohort of esophageal cancer patients treated with proton beam therapy or Intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Radiother Oncol 125(1):48-54, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28917586.
- Wang X, Zhao Z, Luo D, Yang, JN, Yang J, Chang EL, Brown PD, Li J, McAleer MF, Ghia AJ. Submillimeter alignment of more than three contiguous vertebrae in spinal SRS/SBRT with 6-degree couch. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(5):225-236, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28786235.
- Ingram WS, Yang J, Wendt R, Beadle BM, Rao A, Wang XA, Court LE. The influence of non-rigid anatomy and patient positioning on endoscopy-CT image registration in the head and neck. Med Phys 44(8):4159-4168, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28513864.
- Verma V, Simone CB, Krishnan S, Lin SH, Yang J, Hahn SM. The Rise of Radiomics and Implications for Oncologic Management. J Natl Cancer Inst 109(7), 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28423406.
- Rubinstein AE, Ingram WS, Anderson BM, Gay SS, Fave XJ, Ger RB, McCarroll RE, Owens CA, Netherton TJ, Kisling KD, Court LE, Yang J, Li Y, Lee J, Mackin DS, Cardenas CE. Cost-effective immobilization for whole brain radiation therapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(4):116-122, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28585732.
- Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Stingo F, Liao Z, Gomez D, Mohan R, Martel M, Briere T, Court L. A Novel Methodology using CT Imaging Biomarkers to Quantify Radiation Sensitivity in the Esophagus with Application to Clinical Trials. Sci Rep 7(1):6034, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28729729.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Balter P, Gomez D, Followill D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Liao Z, Mohan R, Court L. Delta-radiomics features for the prediction of patient outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer. Sci Rep 7(1):588, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28373718.
- McCarroll RE, Beadle BM, Fullen D, Balter PA, Followill DS, Stingo FC, Yang J, Court LE. Reproducibility of patient set-up in the seated treatment position: A novel treatment chair design. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(1):223-229, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28291911.
- Zhou R, Liao Z, Pan T, Milgrom SA, Pinnix CC, Shi A, Tang L, Yang J, Liu Y, Gomez D, Nguyen QN, Dabaja BS, Court L, Yang J. Cardiac atlas development and validation for automatic segmentation of cardiac substructures. Radiother Oncol 122(1):66-71, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 27939201.
- Ingram WS, Yang J, Beadle BM, Wendt R, Rao A, Wang XA, Court LE. The feasibility of endoscopy-CT image registration in the head and neck without prospective endoscope tracking. PLoS One 12(5):e0177886, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28542331.
- Mackin D, Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Jones AK, Ng CS, Court L. Harmonizing the Pixel Size in Retrospective Computed Tomography Radiomics Studies. PLoS One 12(9):e0178524, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28934225.
- Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Liao Z, Gomez DR, Stingo F, Mohan R, Martel MK, Briere TM, Court LE. 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography can quantify and predict esophageal injury during radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 96(3):670-8, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27681764.
- Wang X, Yang JN, Zhao Z, Yang J, Luo D, Briere T, Pino R, Li J, McAller MF, Weksberg D, Brown PD, Ghia A. Prospective evaluation of target and spinal cord motion and dosimetric changes with respiration in spinal stereotactic body radiation therapy utilizing 4-D CT. Journal of Radiosurgery and SBRT 4(3):191-201, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Court LE, Fave X, Mackin D, Lee J, Yang J, Zhang L. Computational resources for radiomics. Translational Cancer Research 5(4):340-348, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Balter P, Gomez D, Followill D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Court LE. Impact of image preprocessing on the volume dependence and prognostic potential of radiomics features in non-small cell lung cancer. Translational Cancer Research 5(4):349-363, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Tucker SL, Liu A, Gomez D, Tang LL, Allen P, Yang J, Liao Z, Grosshans D. Impact of heart and lung dose on early survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with chemoradiation. Radiother Oncol 119(3):495-500, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27189523.
- Hunter LA, Chen YP, Zhang L, Matney JE, Choi H, Kry SF, Martel MK, Stingo F, Liao Z, Gomez D, Yang J, Court LE. NSCLC tumor shrinkage prediction using quantitative image features. Comput Med Imaging Graph 49:29-36, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26878137.
- Farnia B, Philip N, Georges RH, McAleer MF, Palmer M, Yang J, Allen PK, Martel MK, Mahajan A, McGovern SL. Reirradiation of Recurrent Pediatric Brain Tumors after Initial Proton Therapy. International Journal of Particle Therapy 3(1):1-12, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Yang J, Zhang L, Fave XJ, Fried DV, Stingo FC, Ng CS, Court LE. Uncertainty analysis of quantitative imaging features extracted from contrast-enhanced CT in lung tumors. Comput Med Imaging Graph 48:1-8, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26745258.
- Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Stingo F, Martel MK, Mohan R, Gomez DR, Briere TM, Liao Z, Court LE. Objectively Quantifying Radiation Esophagitis With Novel Computed Tomography-Based Metrics. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 94(2):385-93, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26675063.
- Yu ZH, Kudchadker R, Dong L, Zhang Y, Court LE, Mourtada F, Yock A, Tucker SL, Yang J. Learning anatomy changes from patient populations to create artificial CT images for voxel-level validation of deformable image registration. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(1):5888, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26894362.
- Wang X, Ghia AJ, Zhao Z, Yang J, Luo D, Briere TM, Pino R, Li J, McAleer MF, Weksberg DC, Chang EL, Brown PD, Yang JN. Prospective evaluation of target and spinal cord motion and dosimetric changes with respiration in spinal stereotactic body radiation therapy utilizing 4-D CT. J Radiosurg SBRT 4(3):191-201, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 29296444.
- Fave X, Mackin D, Yang J, Zhang J, Fried D, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Fontenot J, Court L. Can radiomics features be reproducibly measured from CBCT images for patients with non-small cell lung cancer?. Med Phys 42(12):6784-6797, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26632036.
- Zhang Y, Rana S, Gao S, Zhang L, Court LE, Yang J. Intensity-Based Deformable Image Registration with Anatomical Constraints for Adaptive Radiation Therapy. Recent Patents and Topics on Imaging 5(2):97-103, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Mackin D, Fave X, Zhang L, Fried D, Yang J, Taylor B, Rodriguez-Rivera E, Dodge C, Jones AK, Court L. Measuring Computed Tomography Scanner Variability of Radiomics Features. Invest Radiol 50(11):757-65, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26115366.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter PA, Dong L. Erratum: "Modeling respiratory motion for reducing motion artifacts in 4D CT images" [Med. Phys. 40, 041716 (13pp.) (2013)]. Med Phys 42(11):6768, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26520766.
- Fave X, Cook M, Frederick A, Zhang L, Yang J, Fried D, Stingo F, Court L. Preliminary investigation into sources of uncertainty in quantitative imaging features. Comput Med Imaging Graph 44:54-61, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26004695.
- Yang J, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Schwartz DL, Aristophanous M. A multimodality segmentation framework for automatic target delineation in head and neck radiotherapy. Med Phys 42(9):5310, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26328980.
- McCarroll RE, Rubinstein AE, Kingsley CV, Yang J, Yang P, Court LE. 3D-Printed Small-Animal Immobilizer for Use in Preclinical Radiotherapy. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci 54(5):545-8, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26424253.
- Ding Y, Mohamed AS, Yang J, Colen RR, Frank SJ, Wang J, Wassal EY, Wang W, Kantor ME, Balter PA, Rosenthal DI, Lai SY, Hazle JD, Fuller CD. Prospective observer and software-based assessment of magnetic resonance imaging quality in head and neck cancer: Should standard positioning and immobilization be required for radiation therapy applications?. Pract Radiat Oncol 5(4):e299-308, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25544553.
- Awan M, Dyer BA, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bongers E, Dahele M, Yang J, Walker GV, Thaker NG, Holliday E, Bishop AJ, Thomas CR, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD. Auto-segmentation of the brachial plexus assessed with TaCTICS - a software platform for rapid multiple-metric quantitative evaluation of contours. Acta Oncol 54(4):557-60, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25279958.
- Mohamed AS, Ruangskul MN, Awan MJ, Baron CA, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Castillo R, Castillo E, Guerrero TM, Kocak-Uzel E, Yang J, Court LE, Kantor ME, Gunn GB, Colen RR, Frank SJ, Garden AS, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD. Quality assurance assessment of diagnostic and radiation therapy-simulation CT image registration for head and neck radiation therapy: anatomic region of interest-based comparison of rigid and deformable algorithms. Radiology 274(3):752-63, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25380454.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Gao S, Balter PA, Dong L. Digital reconstruction of high-quality daily 4D cone-beam CT images using prior knowledge of anatomy and respiratory motion. Comput Med Imaging Graph 40:30-8, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25467806.
- Zhang L, Fried DV, Fave XJ, Hunter LA, Yang J, Court LE. IBEX: an open infrastructure software platform to facilitate collaborative work in radiomics. Med Phys 42(3):1341-53, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25735289.
- Fave X, Yang J, Carvalho L, Martin R, Pan T, Balter P, Court L. Upright cone beam CT imaging using the onboard imager. Med Phys 41(6):061906, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24877817.
- Yang J, Woodward WA, Reed VK, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Buchholz TA, Zhang L, Balter P, Court LE, Li XA, Dong L. Statistical modeling approach to quantitative analysis of interobserver variability in breast contouring. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 89(1):214-21, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24613812.
- Yang J, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Gunn B, Rosenthal D, Ang K, Frank S, Williamson R, Balter P, Court L, Dong L. Auto-segmentation of low-risk clinical target volume for head and neck radiation therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 4(1):e31-7, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24621429.
- Yang J, Chu D, Dong L, Court LE. Advantages of simulating thoracic cancer patients in an upright position. Pract Radiat Oncol 4(1):e53-8, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24621432.
- Palmer J, Yang J, Pan T, Court LE. Motion of the esophagus due to cardiac motion. PLoS One 9(2):e89126, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24586540.
- Yang J, Amini A, Williamson R, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Komaki R, Liao Z, Cox J, Welsh J, Court L, Dong L. Automatic contouring of brachial plexus using a multi-atlas approach for lung cancer radiotherapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 3(4), 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24273627.
- Yang J, Amini A, Williamson R, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Komaki R, Liao Z, Cox J, Welsh J, Court L, Dong L. Automatic contouring of brachial plexus using a multi-atlas approach for lung cancer radiation therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 3(4):e139-47, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24674411.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter PA, Dong L. Modeling respiratory motion for reducing motion artifacts in 4D CT images. Med Phys 40(4):041716, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23556886.
- Yang J, Wei C, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Blum RS, Dong L. A statistical modeling approach for evaluating auto-segmentation methods for image-guided radiotherapy. Comput Med Imaging Graph 36(6):492-500, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22673541.
- Yang J, Garden AS, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Dong L. Variable planning margin approach to account for locoregional variations in setup uncertainties. Med Phys 39(8):5136-44, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22894439.
- Amini A, Yang J, Williamson R, McBurney ML, Erasmus J, Allen PK, Karhade M, Komaki R, Liao Z, Gomez D, Cox J, Dong L, Welsh J. Dose constraints to prevent radiation-induced brachial plexopathy in patients treated for lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 82(3):e391-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22284035.
- Gao S, Zhang Y, Yang J, Wang C, Court L, and Dong L. A Hybrid Algorithm to Address Ambiguities in Deformable Image Registration for Radiation Therapy. International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology 1(2):50-9, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Yang J. The Thin Plate Spline Robust Point Matching (TPS-RPM) Algorithm: A Revisit. Pattern Recognition Letters 32(7):910-8, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Yang J, Williams JP, Sun Y, Blum RS, Xu C. A Robust Hybrid Method for Nonrigid Image Registration. Pattern Recognition 44(4):764-76, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Ingalhalikar M, Yang J, Davatzikos C, Verma R. DTI-DROID: Diffusion Tensor Imaging-Deformable Registration Using Orientation and Intensity Descriptors. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology 20:99-107, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Yang J, Shen D, Davatzikos C, Verma R. Diffusion tensor image registration using tensor geometry and orientation features. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 11(Pt 2):905-13, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18982691.
- Yang J, Williams JP, Sun Y, Blum RS, Xu C. Non-rigid Image Registration Using Geometric Features and Local Salient Region Features. Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1:825-32, 2006. e-Pub 2006.
- Yang J, Liu Z, Yu N, Wu H. An Image Warping Method Based on Control Points and Its Applications. Journal of Image and Graphics of China 6(11):1070-4, 2001. e-Pub 2001.
Invited Articles
- Yang J, Blum RS, Balter P, Court L. Image fusion based on estimation theory: Applied to PET/CT for radiotherapy. Recent Patents on Medical Imaging 4(2):77-86, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
Review Articles
- Liu Y, Yang J, Lee P, Horowitz D, Thomas TO. Adaptative Radiation Therapy. Advances in Oncology 5(1):1-13, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Court L, Aggarwal A, Burger H, Cardenas C, Chung C, Douglas R, du Toit M, Jaffray D, Jhingran A, Mejia M, Mumme R, Muya S, Naidoo K, Ndumbalo J, Nealon K, Netherton T, Nguyen C, Olanrewaju N, Parkes J, Shaw W, Trauernicht C, Xu M, Yang J, Zhang L, Simonds H, Beadle BM. Addressing the Global Expertise Gap in Radiation Oncology: The Radiation Planning Assistant. JCO Glob Oncol 9, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37471671.
- 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), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36832155.
- McDonald BA, Zachiu C, Christodouleas J, Naser MA, Ruschin M, Sonke JJ, Thorwarth D, Létourneau D, Tyagi N, Tadic T, Yang J, Li XA, Bernchou U, Hyer DE, Snyder JE, Bubula-Rehm E, Fuller CD, Brock KK. Dose accumulation for MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy: From practical considerations to state-of-the-art clinical implementation. Front Oncol 12:1086258, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36776378.
- Pollard-Larkin JM, Briere TM, Kudchadker RJ, Sadagopan R, Nitsch PL, Wang XA, Salehpour M, Wang J, Vedam S, Nelson CL, Sahoo N, Zhu XR, Court LE, Balter PA, Robinson IJ, Yang J, Howell RM, Followill DS, Kry S, Beddar SA, Martel MK. Our Experience Leading a Large Medical Physics Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Adv Radiat Oncol 6(4):100683, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33824935.
- Cardenas CE, Yang J, Anderson BM, Court LE, Brock KB. Advances in Auto-Segmentation. Semin Radiat Oncol 29(3):185-197, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31027636.
- Weygand J, Fuller CD, Ibbott GS, Mohamed AS, Ding Y, Yang J, Hwang KP, Wang J. Spatial Precision in Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Radiation Therapy: The Role of Geometric Distortion. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 95(4):1304-16, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27354136.
- D'Souza NM, Fang P, Logan J, Yang J, Jiang W, Li J. Combining Radiation Therapy with Immune Checkpoint Blockade for Central Nervous System Malignancies. Front Oncol 6:212, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27774435.
- Sharp G, Fritscher KD, Pekar V, Peroni M, Shusharina N, Veeraraghavan H, Yang J. Vision 20/20: perspectives on automated image segmentation for radiotherapy. Med Phys 41(5):050902, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24784366.
Editorials
- Hedrick S, Yang J, Rong Y. Promotion and tenure for medical physicists should be based on article specific measures and not on journal impact factor. J Appl Clin Med Phys 25(12):e14537, 2024. PMID: 39387823.
- Yang J, Xue Z. Medical Image Computing for Diagnostics and Therapy. Recent Patents and Topics on Imaging 5(2):60, 2015.
Abstracts
- Xu Z, Zhao Y, Chen X, Lin J, Barati R, Ng C, Yang J. Segmentation-guided sequential registration for CT Perfusion in Liver. RSNA Annual Meeting, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Khaleghibizaki M, Sobremonte A, Perles L, Prajapati S, Subashi E, Ding Y, Brock K, Koay E, Tang C, Yang J. Impact of Abdominal Compression in MR-Guided Online Adaptive Planning for Abdominal Cancers Treated with a 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Chen X, Zhang X, Xu T, Mohan R, Lin R, Maguire RC, Zhao Y, Efstratios, Koutroumpakis, Palaskas NL, Deswal A, Ajdari A, Niedzielski JS, Shete SS, Laurence E, Court, Yang J, Liao Z. Doses to cardiac substructures show superior predictive power and robustness over whole-heart for hs cTnT elevation in NSCLC radiotherapy. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Wang X, Lim TY, Wang H, Dabaja B, Yang J. MR- Linac Successfully Guided the Treatment of a Free-Moving Mesenteric Mass. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Chen X, Weng J, Ding Y, Sobremonte A, Mohammedsaid M, Zhao Y, Zhang X, Niedzielski J, Shete SS, Court LE, Liao Z, Wang J, Lee P, Yang J. Feasibility of Cardiac Chamber Auto-Segmentation and Dose Optimization for MR-Guided Online Adaptive Radiotherapy of Central Lung Cancer. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Chen X, Zhang X, Xu T, Chu Y, Zhao Y, Mohan R, Corrigan KL, Koutroumpakis E, Deswal A, Niedzielski JS, Shete SS, Court LE, Liao Z, Yang J. Dependence of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T (hs-cTnT) Elevation on Cardiac Substructure Doses in Lung Cancer Radiotherapy-Induced Cardiac Toxicity. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Zhao Y, Wang X, Phan J, Lee A, Shah SJ, Chen X, Gay S, Huang K, Wang Q, Fuller CD, Mohamed N, Wahid K, Court LE, Wang HC, Ding Y, Gu X, Le Q, Lu W, Yang J. SEMIRA: Segmentation with Multimodal Images and Robust Adaptation—a Multi-Institutional Deep-Learning Solution for Gross Tumor Auto-Delineation of Oropharyngeal Cancers. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Ding Y, Tom M, Yeboa DN, Wang Z, Chopra N, Briere TM, Yang J, Subashi E, Wang J, Lathuilière F, Eng, Cloake S, Han EY. PO-GPV-P-89 - Clinical Protocol and Commissioning Focused on Spine SBRT on MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Zhao Y, Yang J, Perles LA, Reiazi R, Chen X, Prajapati S, Subashi E, Mohammedsaid M, Yu ZH, Brock KK, Wang J, Mohamad O, Hassanzadeh C, Choi S, Mok H, Tang C, Ding Y. PO-GPV-T-40 - Respiratory Motion Management Using Compression Belt for MR-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy of Kidney Cancer. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Chen X, Weng JK, Mohammedsaid M, Zhao Y, Zhang X, Niedzielski JS, Court LE, Liao Z, Wang J, Subashi ED, Lee P, Yang J, Ding Y. SU300-GPD(A)-LOUNGE-38 - MRI Sequence Optimization for Cardiac Chamber Segmentation in MR-Guided Online Adaptive Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Duan L, Owens CA, Chen X, Yang J, Bates JE, Paulino AC, Pinnix CC, Mulrooney DA, Yasui Y, Howell RM. SU300-GPD(A)-LOUNGE-63 - Geometric and Dosimetric Evaluation of Automatic Segmentation Models for Cardiac Substructures in Pediatric Patients. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Wang Z, Han EY, Ding Y, Tom M, Briere TM, Yang J, Subashi ED, Chopra N, Sobremonte A, Rojas H, Wang J, Yeboa DN. SU300-GPD(A)-LOUNGE-127 - Comparison of Adaptive Optimization Techniques for MR-Linac Based Spine Stereotactic Radiotherapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Lin R, Zhang X, Xu T, Maguire R, Corrigan K, Koutroumpakis E, Chang J, Lin S, Chen A, Nguyen Q, Gandhi S, Ning M, Bronk J, Chun S, Ajdari A, Niedzielski J, Yang J, Chen X, Pan T, Meng Q, Tsao A, Mohan R, Deswal A, Liao Z. Preliminary Results of a Bayesian Adaptive Radiotherapy Trial to Reduce Cardiac Toxicity in NSCLC. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Akdag O, Mandija S, Pomp J, Chen X, Yang J, Oh S, Trombetta M, Leon J, Jameson M, Efe E, Onal C, Fast M. MRI-guided cardiac radiotherapy using the 1.5T MR-linac: surveying emerging patterns of care. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Wang H, Zhang X, Yang J, Wen Z, Rhee DJ, Sims C, Alsanea F, Lee A, Hunter R, Williamson T, Gunn GB, Frank SJ, Phan J. Proton Based Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Skull Base Patients: Dosimetric Comparison to 4 Modern Radiation Treatment Modalities. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Ding Y, Yeboa DN, Yang J, Wang J, Cloake S, Lathuiliere F, Lessard E, Seithel M, Han EY. Real-Time Spinal Cord Motion Tracking for MR-guided Spine SBRT (A Pilot Study). ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Chopra N, Briere TM, Krafft S, Ding Y, Yang J, Han EY. Commissioning Klarity System on Elekta Unity System for Spine SBRT. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Chen X, El Basha M, Baroudi H, Zhao Y, Yu C, Huang K, Gay S, Nguyen C, Daniel A, Balter P, Zhang X, Niedzielski J, Shete S, Court L, Liao Z, Yang J. Comparing Pretrained and Custom-Trained Auto-Segmentation Models Using a Commercial Deep Learning Framework for Regions-of-Interest in Head and Neck, Breast and Prostate Cancer. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Chen X, Mumme R, Nguyen C, Zhao Y, Huang K, Yu C, Corrigan K, Saski Y, Koutroumpakis E, Daniel A, Balter P, Zhang X, Niedzielski J, Shete S, Court L, Liao Z, Yang J. Geometric and Dosimetric Evaluation of Deep Learning Segmentation for Cardiac Substructure Delineation: A Comparative Stud. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Yang J, Lim TY, Nitsch P, Wang J, Wang X, Kudchadker R, Balter P, Martel M. Development of an MR-Linac Physics Training and Privileging Program. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Yu C, Zhao Y, Martin RM, Ludmir EB, Akinferwa CA, Chen X, Gay S, Cardenas CE, Yang J, Court LE. Deep Feature-Based Contour Quality Assurance for Deep Learning Auto-Segmentation Models. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Salzillo TC, Hughes N, Vedam S, Lim TY, Wang X, Wang HC, Mohammedsaid M, Fuller CD, Wang J, Yang J. Clinical Development of CT Simulations for MR-Linac Patients without the Use of a CT Table Overlay. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Zhao Y, Wang X, Yu C, Phan J, Chen X, Gay S, Huang K, Court LE, Pan T, Wang HC, Yang J. Auto-Segmentation of Gross Tumor Volumes from Multi-Modality Images for Head and Neck Cancers. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Shanker M, Yu H, Yang J, Matin SF, Campbell MT, Masouel P, Tannir N, Prajapati S, Tang C. MR-Linac guided motion-adaptive stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of CT-indiscernible intravascular renal cell carcinoma tumors. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Yang J, Lee B, Ding Y, Prajapati S, Yu H, Mohammedsaid M, Lin L, Choi S, Tang C. Adaptive planning using single isocenter to treat multiple targets with Unity MR-Linac. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Murr M, Bernchou U, Bubula-Rehm E, Ruschin M, Sadeghi P, Voet P, Winter JD, Yang J, Younus E, Zachiu C, Zhao Y, Zhong H, Thorwarth D. A multi-institutional retrospective deformable dose accumulation analysis for MR-guided RT. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Hughes N, Salzillo TC, Vedam S, Lim TY, Wang X, Wang H, Mohammedsaid M, Fuller CD, Wang J, Yang J. Clinical development of CT simulations for MR-Linac patients without the use of a CT table overlay. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Choi S, Yang J, Prajapati S, Yu H, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Mohammedsaid M, Nguyen QN, Tang C, Hassanzadeh C, Wang J, Fuller CD. Results of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy using the MR Linac for Patients with Prostate Cancer. Elekta MR-Linac Consortium Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Murr M, Bernchou U, Bubula-Rehm E, Ruschin M, Sadeghi P, Voet P, Winter JD, Yang J, Younus E, Zachiu C, Zhao Y, Zhong H, Thorwarth D. A multi-institutional retrospective deformable dose accumulation analysis for MR-guided RT. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Shanker M, Yu H, Yang J, Matin SF, Campbell MT, Masouel P, Tannir N, Prajapati S, Tang C. MR-Linac Guided Motion-Adaptive Stereotactic Radiotherapy for the Treatment of CT-Indiscernible Intravascular Renal Cell Carcinoma Tumors. 2023 RSS Scientific Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Chen X, Mumme R, Nguyen C, Zhao Y, Huang K, Yu C, Zhang X, Niedzielski J, Shete S, Court L, Liao Z, Yang J. Training Deep Learning Segmentation Models for Cardiac Substructure Delineation. SWAAPM Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Wang H, Lim TY, Yang J, Fuller CD, Phan J, Wang XA. Optimizing Radiation Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer with Adapt-to-Shape Planning on a 1.5 MR-Linac. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Yu C, Anakwenze C, Zhao Y, Martin R, Niedzielski J, Ludmir E, Yang J, Court L, Cardenas C. Multi-Organ Auto-Segmentation of Abdominal Structures On Contrast-Enhanced CT Images with Escalating Training Data Size. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Thrower S, Vaccarelli M, Muruganandham M, Yang J. A Shifted Setup Method of Patient-Specific QA for Off-Centered Targets Treated On An MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Yang J, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Lee B, Pham M, Hughes N, Mohammadsaid M, Wang X, Lee P. MR-Based Treatment Planning and Plan Adaptation for Treating Cardiac Metastases with MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Prajapati S, Yu Z, Zhao Y, Lim T, Wang H, Wang X, Lee B, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Farooqi A, Mitra D, Kudchadker R, Tang C, Yang J. Quantifying Setup Uncertainties in Treating Intramuscular Metastases with Image-Guided Radiation Therapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Zhao Y, Chen X, Yu C, Court L, McDonald B, Pan T, Wang H, Wang X, Phan J, Yang J. Automated Deformable Registration Using Patch-Based ViT-Morph for MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Ziyaee H, Cardenas C, Yeboa D, Li J, Johnson J, Zhou Z, Sanders J, Mumme R, Court L, Briere T, Yang J. Automated Brain Metastases Segmentation with a Deep Dive Into False Positives Detection. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Han E, Yeboa D, Briere T, Yang J, Castillo P, Pham M, Wang H. Salvage Spine Stereotactic Re-Irradiation Treatment Planning and Daily Plan Adaptation Using MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Chen X, Zhao Y, Court L, Wang H, Pan T, Phan J, Wang X, Yang J. Synthetic CT Generation From Truncated MRI Using a Modified CycleGAN Model. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Wang H, Han E, Phan J, Lim TY, Yang J, Pham M, Wang X. Feasibility of Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Base of Tongue Cancers On the MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Wang H, Chen X, Zhao Y, Wang X, Han E, Lim TY, Yu Z, Prajapati S, Yang J. Evaluation of Delivered Dose Using Synthetic CT for MR-Guided and CT-Guided Radiotherapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Brunenberg E, Derks van de Ven J, Gooding M, Boukerroui D, Gan Y, Henderson E, Sharp GC, Vaassen F, Vasquez Osorio E, Yang J, Monshouwer R. Multicenter comparison of measures for quantitative evaluation of automatic contouring. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Moreno AC, Wang X, Mohamed AS, Wang H, Wang C, Tung S, Yang J, Reddy J, Lee A, Spiotto M, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Frank SJ, Rosenthal DI, Morrison WH, Garden AS, Phan J. Patterns of Failure After SBRT Reirradiation for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Hernandez S, Mumme R, Olanrewaju A, Marquez B, Nguyen C, Sjogreen C, Cardenas C, Yu C, El Basha M, Mann D, Rhee DJ, Ziyaee H, Yang J, Huang K, Nealon K, Oh K, Gomes L, Douglas R, Gay S, Netherton T, Cao W, Xiao Y, Zhao Y, Court L, Gronberg M. Enriching a Fully Remote Medical Physics Lab Culture: A Self-Assessment. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Wu R, Ding Y, Castillo P, Pham M, Williamson T, Bronk L, Liu A, Fuller C, Yang J. Evaluation of Registration Accuracy for Online MR-Guided Adaptive Planning. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Zhao Y, Court Y, Yu C, Cardenas C, Wang H, Wang X, Phan J, Yang J. Generative Adversarial Networks for Synthetic CT Generation From MR Scans with Truncated Anatomy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Wang H, Yang J, Phan J, Han E, Lim T, Castillo P, Wang X. Feasibility of Skull Base Stereotactic Radiotherapy On Elekta MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Prajapati S, Zhao Y, Tang C, Yu Z, Lee B, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Kudchadker R, Yang J. Comparison of CT-Guided and MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Intramuscular Metastasis. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Han E, Wang H, Briere T, Yeboa D, Boursianis T, Kalaitzakis G, Pappas E, Castillo P, Yang J. Brain Stereotactic Radiosurgery Using MR-Guided Online Adaptive Planning to Daily Setup Variation: An End-To-End Test. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Yu C, Anakwenze C, Zhao Y, Martin R, Niedzielski J, Ludmir E, Yang J, Court L, Cardenas C. Multi-Organ Auto-Segmentation of Abdominal Structures From Contrast-Enhanced and Non-Contrast-Enhanced CT Images. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Niedzielski J, Koong A, Sobremonte A, Castillo P, Lee B, Yang J. Dosimetric Evaluation for MR-Linac Online Adaptive Planning Approaches: A Case Study of Recurrent Adrenocortical Carcinoma. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Lakomy DS, Vedam S, Yang J, Wang J, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Castillo P, Hughes N, Mohammedsaid M, Jhingran A, Klopp AH, Fuller CD, Choi S, Lin LL. Single-institution Experience Utilizing MR-Linac for Gynecologic Malignancies. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Wang X, Sobremonte A, Wang H, Vedam S, Phan J, Yang J. Preliminary Feasibility Study of Head Neck SBRT On MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Mumme R, Nguyen C, Olanrewaju A, Castillo P, Wang J, Wang X, Cardenas C, Court L, Martel M, Yang J. Variable Margin Expansion to Account for MR Image Distortion in Treatment Planning. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Vedam S, McDonald B, Yang J, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Lee B, Hughes N, Mohammadsaid M, Wang J, Fuller CD. Development of a No Action Level (NAL) Protocol for Physician Time Management During MRI Guided Online Standard Fractionation Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Gay S, Jhingran A, Anderson B, Zhang L, Rhee D, Nguyen C, Netherton T, Yang J, Brock K, Simonds H, Klopp A, Beadle B, Kisling K, Court L, Cardenas C. Does the Choice of Deep Learning Architecture Matter? Experience From a Radiotherapy Case Study. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Pirlepesov F, Ding Y, Uh J, Zhao L, Merchant T, Wang J, Hua C. Dosimetric Impact of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Distortion in Photon and Proton Treatment Plans. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Yang J, Sobremonte A, Vedam S, Brock K, Ohrt A, Fuller C, Choi S, Jhingran A, Castillo P, Lee B, Wang J, Hughes N, Mohammadsaid M, Balter P. Online Adaptive Planning Strategy for 1.5T MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Muruganandham M, Lee B, Vedam S, Wang J, Yang J, Salehpour M, Shaitelman S. Out-Of-Field Radiation Dose Considerations in Partial Breast Irradiation with Elekta Unity MR-Linac - a Feasibility Study. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Lim T, Wang X, Yang J. Scoring Contour Agreement Using a Beta Distribution Model. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Zhao Y, Rhee D, Cardenas C, Court L, Yang J. Using Very Small Contour Sets to Train High-Quality Deep-Learning Segmentation Models. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Aima M, Han E, Hughes N, Briere T, Yeboa D, Castillo P, Wang J, Yang J, Vedam S. Spinal Stereotactic Radiotherapy Treatment Plan Quality and Delivery Comparison Between a Conventional Linac and a 1.5T MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Cardenas C, Beadle B, Lim T, Yang J, Olanrewaju A, Douglas R, Netherton T, Zhang L, Court L. Head and Neck CTV Decision Making and Automatic Contouring Results in More Consistent Radiotherapy Plans. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Cardenas CE, Beadle BM, Rhee DJ, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Court LE. Delivering high-quality head-and-neck low-risk clinical target volumes through a fully-automated artificial intelligence-based approach. Multidisciplinary 2020 Head and Neck Cancers Symposium, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Yang J, Vedam S, Wang J, Fuller C, Choi S, Chung C, McAleer M, Lee B, Hughes N, Ungchusri G, Gillin M, Martel M, Balter P. Clinical Experience of Patient-Specific QA for Online Adaptive Radiotherapy Using Elekta Unity MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Wang X, Zhao G, Yang J, Salehpour M. A Method to Evaluate the Symmetry Change From Baseline for a Medical Linear Accelerator. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Huang K, Rhee D, Ger R, Layman R, Yang J, Cardenas C, Court L. Effects of CT Image Acquisition and Reconstruction Parameters On Automatic Contouring Algorithms. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Nelson C, Nguyen C, Amirmazaheri M, Court L, Martel M, Cardenas C, Pham C, Saxena R, Yang J. Implementation of a Real-Time Contouring Feedback Tool to Reduce Contouring Variability. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Wang X, Cardenas, Court L, Martel M, Yang J, Nguyen C, Amirmazaheri M, Ghia A, Cardenas C. Leveraging Fully-Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Delineate Clinical Target Volumes for Spinal Stereotactic Radiosurgery. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Vedam S, Yang J, Fuller C, Chung C, Balter P, Lee B, Castillo P, Hughes N, Ungchusri G, McAleer M, Koong A, Herman J, Gillin M, Martel M, Wang J. First MR-Guided Online Adaptive Patient Treatment in North America On An In-Room High Field (1.5 T) MRI Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Yang J, Vedam S, Brink C, Nielsen M, Ji M, Bist L, Ohrt J, Wang J, Balter P. Secondary MU Check Using RadCalc for Elekta Unity MR-Linac. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Rhee D, Cardenas C, Elhalawani H, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Beadle B, Court L. Automatic Detection of Contouring Errors Using Convolutional Neural Networks. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Niedzielski J, Wei X, Xu T, Gomez D, Liao Z, Bankson J, Lai S, Court L, Yang J. Impact of Cardiac Substructure Dose for Modeling Radiation Toxicity in the Heart. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Cardenas C, Yang J, Mohamed A, Fuller C, Beadle B, Garden A, Court L. Identifying Oropharyngeal Clinical Target Volumes Delineation Patterns From Peer-Reviewed Clinical Delineations Via Cascade 3D Fully-Convolutional Networks. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- McDonald B, Ohrt A, Vedam S, Elgohari B, Yang J, Wang J, Fuller C, Brock K. Independent Validation of Deformable Image Registration for MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancers. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Zhao L, Uh J, Zhu J, Ding Y, Merchant T, Wang J, Hua C. Dosimetric Impact of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Distortion On Photon and Proton Treatment Plans. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Owens C, Rhee D, Fuentes D, Peterson C, Li J, Salehpour M, Court L, Yang J. Automated Detection and Segmentation of Lung Tumors Using Deep Learning. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Wei X, Xu T, Allen PK, Zhou R, Yang J, Yang P, Luo Y, Liu A, Mohan R, Liao Z. Low Radiation Therapy Dose of Cardiac and Descending Aorta are Associated with the Worst Grade of Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia in Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Yang J, McCarroll R, Beadle BM, Court LE, Balter P. Comparison of In-House and Commercial Autocontouring Systems for Head and Neck Cancer. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Cardenas C, Anderson B, Zhang L, Jhingran A, Simonds H, Yang J, Brock K, Kloop A, Beadle B, Court L, Kisling K. SU-E-KDBRC-6: A Comparison of Two Deep Learning Architectures to Automatically Define Patient-Specific Beam Apertures. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Kisling, K, Ger R, Cardenas C, Rubinstein A, Netherton T, Ingram W, Fave X, Owens C, Anderson B, Lee J, Gay S, Yang J, McCarroll R, Mackin D, Li Y, Rhee D, Edward S, He Y, David S, Nitsch P, Balter P, Court L. SU-I-GPD-E-6: Broadening the Graduate School Experience: Paper-In-A-Day. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Yang J, Fang R, Court L, Liao Z, Gomez D, Gunther J, Yang J. SU-I-GPD-E-17: Consensus Contouring Software with Real-Time Feedback for Radiation Oncology Training. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Chetvertkov M, Vassiliev O, Yang J, Wang H, Liao Z, Mohan R. SU-I-GPD-T-75: The Impact of Intra-Fractional Motion On Dose Distributions in Lung IMRT. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Li H, Yang J, Xiao Y, Fan Y. SU-K-KDBRC-4: Accurate Hippocampus Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Networks and Deformable Image Registration Based Data Augmentation. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- He Y, Zhang L, McCarroll R, Kisling K, Yang J, Mayo C, Beadle B, Court L. MO-E115-GePD-F3-2: An Extensive Search for Optimal Collimator Angle and Field Size Settings for Knowledge-Based Automated Head-And-Neck VMAT Plans. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Owens C, Peterson C, Tang C, Koay E, Yu W, Li J, Salehpour M, Fuentes D, Court L, Yang J. TU-C930-GePD-F5-2: Convolutional Neural Networks for Fully Automatic Segmentation of Lung Tumors in CT Images. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Yang J, Fang R, Du W, Court L. TU-C1030-GePD-F5-6: Automatic Detection of Gradicule Isocenter and Scale From KV and MV Images. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Mackin D, Ger R, Zhang L, Yang J, Chi P, Bache S, Dodge C, Jones A, Court L. TU-GH-KDBRC-2: Homogenizing Reconstruction Kernels for CT Radiomics. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- McCarroll R, Balter P, Beadle B, Burger H, Cardenas, Salvie S, Followill D, Kisling K, Mejia M, Naidoo K, Nelson C, Peterson C, Vorster K, Wetter J, Zhang L, Yang J, Court L. WE-FG-DBRA-4: Full Automation of Head-And-Neck Contouring, VMAT Planning, and Independent Plan Checks. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Li H, Martin-Carreras T, Cooper K, Yang J, Sebro R, Fan Y. WE-C1030-GePD-F5-2: Distinguishing Myxomas From Myxofibrosarcomas Using Radiomic Features Extracted From T1 MRI. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Yang J, Bahig H, Mohamed A, Frank S, Hutcheson K, Fuller C. TH-CD-KDBRC-7: Automatic Registration of 2D MR Cine Images for Swallowing Motion Estimation. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Cardenas C, McCarroll R, Court L, Elgohari B, Elhalawani H, Fuller C, Jomaa M, Meheissen M, Mohamed A, Rao A, Williams B, Wong A, Yang J, Aristophanous M. MO-L-GePD-J(B)-3: Deep Learning On Clinically-Clustered Patients Improves Auto-Delineation of Oropharyngeal High-risk Clinical Target Volumes. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Titt U, Yang J, Mirkovic D, Yepes P, Liu A, Peeler C, Mohan R. MO-RAM-GePD-T-4: Monte Carlo Cumulative 4D and 5D Proton Dose Distribution Computations and Their Comparison with Analytical Dose Computation Model Predictions for Lung Cancer Patients. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Court L, Niedzielski J, Titt U, Yang J, Mohan R, Mirkovic D, Stingo F, Gomez D, Liao Z, Martel M, Briere T, Court L. SU-F-FS1-2: Analysis of Normal Tissue Response in the Esophagus Between IMRT and Proton Therapy Using Imaging Biomarkers. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Court L, McCarroll R, Kisling K, Zhang L, Yang J, Simonds H, du Toit M, Jhingran A, Balter P, Beadle B. SU-I-GPD-T-232: An Initial Plan Check Procedure Specifically Designed for Fully-Automated Treatment Planning. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Ibbott G, Wang J. SU-K-601-11: Dose Deviation Due to the Combination Effect of MRI Geometric Distortion and Local Dose Gradient in MRI-Based IMRT Planning. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Anderson B, Cardenas C, Klopp A, Kry S, Johnson J, Ho J, Rao A, Yang J, Cressman E, Court L. SU-K-601-13: Computer-Aided Detection of Pathologically Enlarged Lymph Nodes On Non-Contrast CT in Cervical Cancer Patients for Low-Resource Settings. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Ingram WS, Yang J, Qiu J, Weersink R, Beadle B, Wendt R, Rao A, Court L. SU-K-FS4-5: Mapping Endoscope Images to CT: Methods and Uncertainties. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- McCarroll R, Zhang L, Cardenas C, Balter P, Kisling K, Mejia M, Nelson C, Followill D, Peterson C, Yang J, Beadle B, Court L. TH-CD-205-3: Fully Automated VMAT Planning in the Head and Neck. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Armato S, Sharp G, Yang J, Veeraraghavan H. TH-CD-FS2-0: Auto-Segmentation for Thoracic Radiation Treatment Planning: A Grand Challenge. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Yang J. TH-CD-FS2-3: Introduction to the Auto-Segmentation Grand Challenge. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Jhingran A, Yang J, Simonds H, McCarroll R, du Toit M, Balter P, Howell R, Schmeler K, Bogler O, Beadle B, Court L. TH-EF-FS1-7: Fully-Automated Treatment Planning for Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Gay S, Rubinstein A, Ingram W, Anderson B, Fave S, Ger R, McCarroll R, Owens C, Netherton T, Kisling K, Court L, Yang J, Li Y, Lee J, Mackin D, Cardenas C. TU-C3-GePD-TT-5: Low-Cost Immobilization Techniques for Whole-Brain Irradiation. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- McCarroll R, Yang J, Cardenas C, Balter P, Burger H, Dalvie S, Kisling K, Mejia M, Naidoo K, Nelson C, Followill D, Peterson C, Vorster K, Wetter J, Zhang L, Beadle B, Court L. TU-FG-605-9: Machine Learning for the Prediction of Physician Edits to Clinical Auto-Contours in the Head-And-Neck. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Cardenas C, McCarroll R, Court L, Elgohari B, Elhalawani H, Fuller C, Jomaa M, Meheissen M, Mohamed A, Rao A, Williams B, Wong A, Yang J, Aristophanous M. TY-FG-605-11: Deep Learning Algorithm for Auto-Delineation of High-Risk Oropharyngeal Clinical Target Volumes with Built-In Dice Similarity Coefficient Parameter Optimization Function. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Mackin D, Ger R, Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Bache S, Chi P, Jones A, Dodge C, Court L. TY-H-FS4-3: The Effect of Reducing Milliamp Seconds On Computed Tomography Radiomics Features. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Yang J, Steinmann A, Mackin D, Stafford R, Followill D, Li J, Court L. TU-H-FS4-9: Development of An MRI Radiomics Phantom. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Owens C, Tang C, Peterson C, Fave X, Koay E, Salehpour M, Fuentes D, Li J, Court L, Yang J. WE-F-205-11: Reproducibility and Robustness of Radiomic Features Extracted with Semi-Automiatic Segmentation Tools. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Niedzielski J, Yang J, Stingo F, Liao Z, Gomez D, Mohan R, Martel M, Briere T, Court L. WE-G-FS1-2: A Novel CT Imaging Biomarker to Quantify Radiation injury in the Esophagus with Application to Outcome Assessment. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Ger R, Yang J, Ding Y, Jacobsen M, Fuller C, Howell R, Li H, Stafford R, Zhou S, Court L. TU-AB-601-3: Assessment of the Accuracy of DIR On MR Images Using Velocity and An In-House Demons Algorithm. Med Phys 44(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- McCarroll R, Beadle BM, Gass T, Morgas T, Zhang L, Williamson R, Kisling K, Balter P, Court LE, Yang J. Fully automatic segmentation of normal tissue for head and neck auto-planning. Varian Research Partnership Symposium, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Yang J, Zhang Z, Jiang W, Wang X, Brown PD, Guha-Thakurta N, Ferguson S, Fave X, Zhang L, Mackin D, Court L, Li J. Delta radiomic features from MR images can distinguish radiation necrosis from tumor progression after Gamma knife radiosurgery. ISRS, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Court L, McCarroll R, Kisling K, Zhang L, Yang J, Simonds H, Du Toit M, Mejia M, Jhingran A, Balter P, Beadle B. Full automation of radiation therapy treatment planning. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Owens C, Tang C, Peterson C, Fave X, Koay E, Court L, Salehpour M, Fuentes D, Yang J. Assessing Radiomics Feature Reproducibility Using a Semi-Automatic Tool. SWAAPM, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Court L, McCarroll R, Kisling K, Zhang L, Yang J, Jhingran A, Balter P, Simonds H, du Toit M, Mejia M, Beadle B. Full automation of radiation therapy treatment planning 32(Supplement 2):147, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Yang J, Wang X, Zhao Z, Yang JN, Zhang Y, Court L, Li J, Brown PD, Ghia A. SU-F-J-128: Dosimetric Impact of Esophagus Motion in Spine Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Wang X, Zhao Z, Yang J, Yang JN, McAleer MF, Brown PD, Li J, Ghia A. SU-F-T-642: Sub Millimeter Accurate Setup of More Than Three Vertebrae in Spinal SBRT with 6D Couch. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Cardenas C, Wong A, Mohamed A, Yang J, Court L, Rao A, Fuller C, Aristophanous M. SU-C-BRA-05: Delineating High-Dose Clinical Target Volumes for Head and Neck Tumors Using Machine Learning Algorithms. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Mackin D, Court L, Ng C, Yang J, Zhang L, Fave X. SU-F-R-09: Homogenization of CT Images for Radiomics Studies: It’s Like Butter(worth). AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Luo Y, Liao Z, Jiang W, Gomez D, Williamson R, Court L, Yang J. TU-H-CAMPUS-JeP2-05: Can Automatic Delineation of Cardiac Substructures On Noncontrast CT Be Used for Cardiac Toxicity Analysis?. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Ingram W, Yang J, Beadle B, Wendt R, Rao A, Court L. TU-AB-202-12: A Novel Method to Map Endoscopic Video to CT for Treatment Planning and Toxicity Analysis in Radiation Therapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Beddar S, Ibbott G, Balter P, Kudchadker R, Krishnan S, Fuller C, Wang J. SU-F-J-168: Dosimetric Impact of MR Image Distortion in Treatment Planning. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- McCarroll R, Beadle B, Fullen D, Balter P, Followill D, Stingo F, Yang J, Court L. U-H-CAMPUS-TeP1-02: Seated Treatment: Setup Uncertainty Comparable to Supine. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Stingo F, Followill D, Balter P, Jones A, Gomez D, Court L. TU-D-207B-02: Delta-Radiomics: The Prognostic Value of Therapy-Induced Changes in Radiomics Features for Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Yang J, Jhingran A, Balter P, McCarroll R, Beadle B, Howell R, Schmeler K, Court L. SU-F-T-423: Automating Treatment Planning for Cervical Cancer in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Zhang Z, Ho A, Wang X, Brown P, Guha-Thakurta N, Ferguson S, Fave X, Zhang L, Mackin D, Court L, Yang J. TU-D-207B-01: A Prediction Model for Distinguishing Radiation Necrosis From Tumor Progression After Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Based On Radiomics Features From MR Images. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- McCarroll R, Beadle B, Yang J, Zhang L, Mejia M, Kisling K, Balter P, Stingo F, Nelson C, Followill D, Court L. TU-H-CAMPUS-JeP1-02: Fully Automatic Verification of Automatically Contoured Normal Tissues in the Head and Neck. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Park PC, Koay E, Yang J, Suh Y, Das P, Crane C, Beddar S. Patient-specific deformable image registration quality assurance based on feature points. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Niedzielski J, Liao Z, Mohan R, Yang J, Stingo F, Gomez D, Martel M, Briere T, Court L. FDG-PET can objectively quantify esophageal doseresponse and toxicity during radiation therapy. ESTRO Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Gunther J, Yang J, Bhosale P, Williamson R, Klopp A, Jhingran A, Eifel P. Anatomic Distribution of Inguinal Lymph Nodes in Patients with Vulvar Carcinoma. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Dong L, Balter P, Court L. Improve CBCT Image Quality Through Deformable Image Registration for Thoracic Adaptive Radiotherapy. CPRIT Innovations in Cancer Prevention and Research Conference IV, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Court L, Williamson R, Timmerman R, Yang J. Improvements in the QA of Clinical Trials in Radiation Therapy. CPRIT Innovations in Cancer Prevention and Research Conference IV, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Swanick C, Castle K, Vedam S, Turner L, Yang J, Rauch G, Jhingran A, Eifel P, Klopp A. Comparison of CT and MRI Based Clinical Target Volume Contours at the Time of Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Wang J, Yang J, Marshall S, Wen Z, Court L, Ibbott G. Dose Distribution Differences Caused by System Related Geometric Distortion in MRI-Guided Radiation Treatment System. Med Phys 42(2):312, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127597.
- Yang J, Balter P, Court L. Evaluation of Automatic Segmentation of Critical Structures for Head-And-Neck and Thoracic Radiotherapy Planning. Med Phys 42(6):3591, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26128823.
- Wang J, Yang J, Hwang K, Wen Z, Court L, Ibbott G. Evaluation of Residual Geometric Distortion in MRI for Treatment Planning. Med Phys, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127618.
- Yang J, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Dong L, Balter P, Court L. Solving the Chinese Postman Problem for Effective Contour Deformation. Med Phys 42(6):3289, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127500.
- Zhang L, Fried D, Fave X, Mackin D, Yang J, Court L. The Importance of Appropriate Image Preprocessing to Augment the Information of Radiomics Image Features. Med Phys 42(6):3326, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127650.
- Mackin D, Zhang L, Fave X, Fried D, Yang J, Taylor B, Rodriguez-Rivera E, Dodge C, Jones A, Court L. Toward Understanding the Robustness of Radiomics Features in CT. Med Phys 42(6):3214, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127192.
- Ingram W, Yang J, Beadle B, Rao A, Wendt R, Court L. Virtual Endoscope Tracking for Endoscopy-CT Image Registration. Med Phys 42(6):3655, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26129163.
- Fave X, Fried D, Zhang L, Yang J, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones A, Stingo F, Court L. Volume-Dependence of Quantitative Imaging Features From CT and CE-CT Images of NSCLC. Med Phys 42(6):3321, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127632.
- Zhou R, Yang J, Pan T, Milgrom S, Pinnix C, Shi A, Yang J, Liu Y, Nguyen Q, Gomez D, Dabaja B, Balter P, Court L, Atlas LZ. Development for Cardiac Automatic Contouring Using Multi-Atlas Segmentation. Med Phys 42(6):3294, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127520.
- Niedzielski J, Yang J, Stingo F, Krafft S, Martel M, Briere T, Mohan R, Court L. A Novel Method to Objectively Quantify Normal Tissue Toxicity in the Esophagus. Med Phys 42(6):3547, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26128573.
- Fave X, Fried D, Zhang L, Yang J, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones A, Stingo F, Court L. A Phantom Study to Assess the Variability in Radiomics Features Extracted From Cone-Beam CT Images. Med Phys 42(6):3214, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26127193.
- Wang X, Yang JN, Zhao Z, Yang J, Briere T, Pino R, Li J, McAleer MF, Weksberg D, Brown P, Ghia A. Prospective evaluation of target motion and dosimetric changes with respiration in spine SBRT using 4D-CT. ISRS, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Yang J, Beadle B, Aristophanous M. A multimodality segmentation algorithm for automatic target delineation in head and neck radiotherapy. Varian Research Partnership Symposium, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Yang J, Beadle B, Balter P, Court L. Online Atlas Selection Using 3D Gabor Features. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Balter P, Court L. Density Correction for Deformable Image Registration to Improve CT Number Mapping. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Balter P, Dong L, Court L. Deformation Image Registration Using a Spatial-Context Regularization Filter. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Niedzielski J, Yang J, Martel M, Tucker S, Gomez D, Briere T, Court L. Quantification of Dose-Response for High Grade Esophagtis Patients Using a Novel Voxel-To-Voxel Method. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Niedzielski J, Yang J, Martel M, Tucker S, Briere T, Gomez D, Court L. The Effect of Radiation-Induced Esophageal Swelling On Dose-Volume Histograms. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Ingram S, Yang J, Beadle B, Rao A, Wendt R, Castillo R, Court L. Image-Based Camera Tracking: Towards Registration of Endoscopic Video to CT. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Williamson R, Yang J, Timmerman R, Court L. Process for QA of Normal Tissue Delineation and Reported Doses in Clinical Trials. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Aristophanous M, Yang J, Beadle B. Multimodality Segmentation of Head and Neck Tumors. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Sadagopan R, Yang J, Li H. Dual Energy Planar Image Based Localization in the Absence of On-Board CT Images. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Fave X, Yang J, Balter P, Court L. Acquiring and Assessing Upright CBCT Images for Future Treatment Planning. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Fried D, Balter P, Court L. Monitoring Changes in Tumor Texture Features On Weekly CT and CBCT Scans of NSCLC Patients. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Zhang L, Hunter L, Fried D, Fave X, Yang J, Court L. IBEX: An Open Software Infrastructure Platform to Accelerate Collaborative Work On Quantitative Image Features and Predictive Models. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- McCarroll R, Rubinstein A, Kingsley C, Yang J, Yang P, Court L. Quantification of Rotational Variation in Mouse Setup for IGRT. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Yu Z, Andreou K, Yang J, Mourtada F. Auto-Segmentation Strategies for Treatment Targets and Critical Organs in Head-And-Neck Cancer Patients. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Fave X, Yang J, Balter P, Court L. Upright CBCT: A novel imaging technique. SWAAPM, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Yang J, Beadle B, Garden AS, Balter P, Court L. Atlas Ranking and Selection for Multi-Atlas Segmentation. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Yang J, Xu T, Tucker S, Williamson R, Liao Z, Court L. CT Texture Analysis of Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Is Not Predictive of SNP Status. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Court L, Yang J, Fullen D, Han N, Ko J, Mason S, Nguyen K, Stein S, Fave X, Hsieh M, Kuruvila S, Hillebrandt E, Palmer J, Beadle B, Dabaja B, Skinner H, Ibbott G, Balter P. Patients Could (and Should) Be Treated in An Upright Position. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Court L, Yang J, Hunter L, and Ng C. Understanding Uncertainties in Quantitative Image Features Extracted From Contrast-Enhanced CT Images. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Yu Z, Yang J, Dong L, Zhang Y, Court L, Mourtada F, Tucker S, Klopp A, Eifel P, Kudchadker R. Voxel-By-Voxel Validation of Deformable Image Registration Between External Beam and Intracavitary Brachytherapy Images Using Artificial CT Images Created From Patient Populations. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Rubinstein A, Yang J, Martin R, Kingsley C, Delacerda J, Michel K, Tailor R, Pan T, Yang P, Hazle J, Court L. Respiratory Motion Management for High-Precision Small Animal Irradiation. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Niedzielski J, Yang J, Martel M, Briere T, Gomez D, Court L. Development and QA of a Novel Framework to Quantify Normal Tissue Toxicity Using the Jacobian Map. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Zhang L, Michel K, Yang J, Rubinstein A, Kingsley C, Delacerda A, Balter P, and Court L. A Multi-Modality Image Atlas for Transforming An MR Image Into a Pseudo CT Image for MRI-Based IGRT Application. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Yock A, Rao A, Dong L, Beadle B, Zhang L, Yang J, Kudchadker R, and Court L. Hierarchical Clustering and Classification Improve the Prediction of GTV Response Throughout the Course of Head and Neck IMRT. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Park P, Matney J, Mohan R, Zhu X, Dong L, Li H, Cheung J, Sahoo N, Yang J, Poenisch F, Liu W. Perturbation of Tissue Density Is An Important Metric to Be Considered When Planning for Respiratory Motion Management for Lung Proton Therapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Park P, Matney J, Mohan R, Zhu X, Sahoo N, Li H, Poenisch F, Cheung J, Yang J, Liu W. Development of tumor motion analysis tool for proton lung treatment planning. PTCOG, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Yock A, Rao A, Dong L, Beadle B, Zhang L, Yang J, Kudchadker R, Court L. Classification improves the prediction of GTV volume throughout the course of head and neck IMRT. SWAAPM, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Rubinstein A, Yang J, Martin R, Pan T, Delacerda A, Kingsley C, Hazle J, Court L. 4D assessment of intra-fraction lung and heart motion in mice using deformable image registration. Symposium on Small Animal Radiotherapy, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Court L, Hunter L, Yang P, Yang J, Gomez D, Liao Z. Investigations into the use of quantitative image features to predict tumor phenotype and treatment outcome in lung tumors. ICCR, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Court L, Balter P, Yang J. Extending current treatment technologies to acquire vertical CTs and treat radiotherapy patients in an upright position. ICCR, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Yang J, Dong L, and Court L. Advantages of Treating Thoracic Cancer Patients in an Upright Position. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Yang J, Garden A, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Court L, Dong L. Multi-Atlas Fusion Using a Tissue Appearance Model. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court L, Balter P, Dong L. Prediction of Respiratory Motion from Single Daily 3D Image Using Prior Model of Motion and Anatomic Variations. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Yang J, Zhang Y, Mahajan A, Dong L. Multi-modality and multi-atlas fusion for automatic delineation of normal brain structures. Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference (SBEC), 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Yang J, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Dong L. Statistical Modeling for Quantitative Evaluation of Automatic Anatomy Segmentation in Radiotherapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Yang J, Williamson R, Garden A, Rosenthal D, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Ang K, Dong L. Multi-Atlas Based Auto-Segmentation of Low-Risk Clinical Target Volume (CTV) for Head-And-Neck Radiotherapy. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Dong L. Digital Synthesizing High-Quality Daily 4D-CBCT From Conventional 3D-CBCT Using Prior Knowledge of Motion and Anatomy Relationships. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Dong L, Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L. Atlas Based Auto-Segmentation Based On Deformable Image Registration. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Amini A, Welsh JW, Yang J, McBurney ML, Williamson RT, Karhade M, Allen PK, Erasmus J, Dong L, and Liao Z. Dose Constraints to Prevent Radiation-Induced Brachial Plexopathy in Patients Treated for Lung Cancer. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Yang J, Woodward WA, Reed VK, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Oh JL, Yu TK, Buchholz TA, Dong L. A Statistical Modeling Method for Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Breast Contours. RSNA, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Yang J, Garden AS, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Dong L. Variable Planning Margin Approach to Account for Locoregional Variations of Setup Uncertainties. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Dong L. Incorporating Prior Knowledge into Deformable Image Registration by Pre-Processing Image Intensity. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Palmer MB, Zhang Y, McAleer M, Yang J, Dong L. Retreatment Composite Dose Planning Using a Deformable Image Registration Method. ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Dong L. Converting Cone‐Beam CT to In‐Room Conventional CT by a Deformable Image Registration Method. AAPM Annual Meeting, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
- Yang J, Baloch S, Huang H, Clark S, Yarowsky P, Mori S, Davatzikos C, Verma R. Framework for comparing mutant mice against a DTI-based normative atlas of mouse brain development. ISMRM, 2008. e-Pub 2008.
- Walker L, Yang J, Wu X, Simonyan K, Verma R, Pierpaoli C. Regional Distribution of Outliers of Diffusion MRI in the Human Brain. ISMRM, 2008. e-Pub 2008.
- Verma R, Kantankeris S, Misra C, Yang J, Wu X, Ferrucci L, Davatzikos C, Resnick SA. Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study of Markers of White Matter Aging. International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, 2008. e-Pub 2008.
Book Chapters
- Chen X, Yu C, Sharp G, Yang J. Imaging technologies in radiation therapy. In: Artificial Intelligence in Adaptive Radiation Therapy. IOP Publishing, 4-1-4-25, 2025.
- Smith L, Zhao Y, Yang J, Qi X. Artificial intelligence in MRI-guided adaptive radiation therapy. In: Artificial Intelligence in Adaptive Radiation Therapy. IOP Publishing, 16-1-16-25, 2025.
- Smith, L, Zhao, Y, Yang, J, Qi, XS. Artificial intelligence in MRI-guided adaptive radiation therapy, 417-441, 2025.
- Chen, X, Yu, C, Sharp, G, Yang, J. Imaging technologies in radiation therapy, 100-124, 2025.
- Weng J, Yang J, Mak RH, Abazeed M, Lee P. Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Radiation Therapy: Advances and Opportunities for Thoracic Malignancies. In: A Practical Guide to MR-Linac: Technical Innovation and Clinical Implication. Springer International Publishing, 273-284, 2024.
- Seo A, Yang J, Fuller CD. MRI-Guided Radiotherapy. In: Pocket Radiation Oncology. Second Edition. Wolters Kluwer, 2024.
- Ger RB, Netherton TJ, Rhee DJ, Court LE, Yang J, Cardenas CE. Auto-contouring for Image-Guidance and Treatment Planning. In: Machine and Deep Learning in Oncology, Medical Physics and Radiology. Second Edition. Springer, 231-293, 2022.
- Yang J, Sharp GC, Gooding MJ. Introduction to auto-segmentation in radiation oncology. In: Auto-segmenttation for Radiation Oncology: State of the Art. 1. CRC Press, 1-9, 2021.
- Fang R, Court L, Yang J. Evaluation of a multi-atlas segmentation system. In: Auto-Segmentation for Radiation Oncology: State of the Art. 1. CRC Press, 47-65, 2021.
- Yang J, Zhou R, Luo Y, Liao Z. Automatic segmentation of cardiac substructures for radiation oncology applications. In: Cardiovascular Imaging and Image Analysis. CRC Press, 153-171, 2018.
- Dong L, Yang J, Zhang Y. Image Processing in Adaptive Radiotherapy. In: Image Processing in Radiation Therapy. CRC Press, 3-20, 2013.
- Liu Z, Yang J. On the Fusion of Multi-Sensor Images: the Multiresolution Approaches. In: Robot Vision: New Research. Nova Science Publishers Inc, 241-276, 2009.
- Yang J, Blum RS. A Statistical Signal Processing Approach to Image Fusion Using Hidden Markov Models. In: Multi Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications. Marcel Dekker/CRC Press, 265-287, 2005.
- Blum RS, Yang J. Image Fusion Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm and a Gaussian Mixture Model. In: Multisensor Surveillance Systems: the Fusion Perspective. Kluwer, 81-96, 2003.
Books (edited and written)
- Yang J, Sharp GC, Gooding MJ. Auto-Segmentation for Radiation Oncology: State of the Art. Ed(s) 1. CRC Press, 2021.
Patient Reviews
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