Pingjun Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, Division of Pathology-LabMedicine-Research
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Instructor, Department of Imaging Physics - Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2020 | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, PHD, Biomedical Engineering |
| 2015 | Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, CHN, MS, Biomedical Image Analysis |
| 2012 | Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, CHN, BS, Software Engineering |
Postgraduate Training
| 2020-2023 | Postdoctoral Training, Computational Pathology, The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
Honors & Awards
| 2022 | Silver Distinguished Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Saad MB, Hong L, Aminu M, Vokes NI, Chen P, Salehjahromi M, Qin K, Sujit SJ, Lu X, Young E, Al-Tashi Q, Qureshi R, Wu CC, Carter BW, Lin SH, Lee PP, Gandhi S, Chang JY, Li R, Gensheimer MF, Wakelee HA, Neal JW, Lee HS, Cheng C, Velcheti V, Lou Y, Petranovic M, Rinsurongkawong W, Le X, Rinsurongkawong V, Spelman A, Elamin YY, Negrao MV, Skoulidis F, Gay CM, Cascone T, Antonoff MB, Sepesi B, Lewis J, Wistuba II, Hazle JD, Chung C, Jaffray D, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan A, Lee JJ, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Wu J. Predicting benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer by CT-based ensemble deep learning: a retrospective study. Lancet Digit Health 5(7):e404-e420, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37268451.
- Hong L, Aminu M, Li S, Lu X, Petranovic M, Saad MB, Chen P, Qin K, Varghese S, Rinsurongkawong W, Rinsurongkawong V, Spelman A, Elamin YY, Negrao MV, Skoulidis F, Gay CM, Cascone T, Gandhi SJ, Lin SH, Lee PP, Carter BW, Wu CC, Antonoff MB, Sepesi B, Lewis J, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Le X, Jack Lee J, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Routbort MJ, Gainor JF, Heymach JV, Lou Y, Wu J, Zhang J, Vokes NI. Efficacy and clinicogenomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors alone or with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. Nat Commun 14(1):695, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36755027.
- El Hussein S, Chen P, Medeiros LJ, Hazle JD, Wu J, Khoury JD. Artificial intelligence-assisted mapping of proliferation centers allows the distinction of accelerated phase from large cell transformation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Mod Pathol 35(8):1121-1125, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35132162.
- Chen P, El Hussein S, Xing F, Aminu M, Kannapiran A, Hazle JD, Medeiros LJ, Wistuba II, Jaffray D, Khoury JD, Wu J. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Progression Diagnosis with Intrinsic Cellular Patterns via Unsupervised Clustering. Cancers (Basel) 14(10), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35626003.
- El Hussein S, Chen P, Medeiros LJ, Wistuba II, Jaffray D, Wu J, Khoury JD. Artificial intelligence strategy integrating morphologic and architectural biomarkers provides robust diagnostic accuracy for disease progression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. J Pathol 256(1):4-14, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34505705.
- Chen P, Zhang J, Wu J. Artificial Intelligence in Digital Pathology to Advance Cancer Immunotherapy. 21 Century Pathol 2(3), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36282981.
- Chen P, Liang Y, Shi X, Yang L, Gader P. Automatic Whole Slide Pathology Image Diagnosis Framework via Unit Stochastic Selection and Attention Fusion. Neurocomputing 453:312-325, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 35082453.
- Zhang Z, Chen P, Shi X, Yang L.. Text-Guided Neural Network Training for Image Recognition in Natural Scenes and Medicine. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 43(5):1733-1745, 2021.
- Shi X, Xing F, Xu K, Chen P, Liang Y, Lu Z, Guo Z. Loss-Based Attention for Interpreting Image-Level Prediction of Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Trans Image Process 30:1662-1675, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33382655.
- Chen P, Shi X, Liang Y, Li Y, Yang L, Gader PD. Interactive thyroid whole slide image diagnostic system using deep representation. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 195:105630, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32634647.
- Chen P, Gao L, Shi X, Allen K, Yang L. Fully automatic knee osteoarthritis severity grading using deep neural networks with a novel ordinal loss. Comput Med Imaging Graph 75:84-92, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31238184.
- Zhang Z, Chen P, McGough M, Xing F, Wang C, Bui M, Xie Y, Sapkota M, Cui L, Dhillon J, Ahmad N, Khalil F, Dickinson S, Shi X, Liu F, Su H, Cai J, Yang L. Pathologist-level interpretable whole-slide cancer diagnosis with deep learning. Nature Machine Intelligence 1(5):236-245, 2019.
Other Articles
- Chen P, Aminu M, El Hussein S, Khoury J, Wu J Hierarchical Phenotyping and Graph Modeling of Spatial Architecture in Lymphoid Neoplasms. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science [Internet] Cham(16):164-174, 2021.
- Cai J, Lu L, Harrison A, Shi X, Chen P, Yang L Iterative Attention Mining for Weakly Supervised Thoracic Disease Pattern Localization in Chest X-Rays. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science [Internet] Cham(66):589-598, 2018.
- Zhang Z, Chen P, Sapkota M, Yang L TandemNet: Distilling Knowledge from Medical Images Using Diagnostic Reports as Optional Semantic References. Lecture Notes in Computer Science [Internet] Cham(37):320-328, 2017.
Patient Reviews
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