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most citedDeep-Learning-based Fast and Accurate 3D CT Deformable Image Registration in Lung Cancer

24 citations · 47 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AI2026

Toward Vibe Medicine: A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Framework for Clinical Decision Support

Qianxue Zhang, Yiming Ren, Shihuan Qin +18

In recent years, the advances of large language models and autonomous agents have revolutionized the healthcare field, facilitating diagnosis and improving treatment results. Howev…

physics.med-ph2025

AI in Proton Therapy Treatment Planning: A Review

Yuzhen Ding, Hongying Feng, Martin Bues +12

Purpose: Proton therapy provides superior dose conformity compared to photon therapy, but its treatment planning is challenged by sensitivity to anatomical changes, setup/range unc…

physics.med-ph2025

Diffusion Transformer-based Universal Dose Denoising for Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy

Yuzhen Ding, Jason Holmes, Hongying Feng +13

Purpose: Intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) offers precise tumor coverage while sparing organs at risk (OARs) in head and neck (H&N) cancer. However, its sensitivity to anat…

physics.med-ph2025

Critical review of patient outcome study in head and neck cancer radiotherapy

Jingyuan Chen, Yunze Yang, Chenbin Liu +8

Rapid technological advances in radiation therapy have significantly improved dose delivery and tumor control for head and neck cancers. However, treatment-related toxicities cause…

physics.med-ph2024

Enabling Clinical Use of Linear Energy Transfer in Proton Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer -- A Review of Implications for Treatment Planning and Adverse Events Study

Jingyuan Chen, Yunze Yang, Hongying Feng +12

Proton therapy offers significant advantages due to its unique physical and biological properties, particularly the Bragg peak, enabling precise dose delivery to tumors while spari…

physics.med-ph2024

Robust Optimization for Spot Scanning Proton Therapy based on Dose-Linear Energy Transfer (LET) Volume Constraints

Jingyuan Chen, Yunze Yang, Hongying Feng +8

Purpose: Historically, spot scanning proton therapy (SSPT) treatment planning utilizes dose volume constraints and linear-energy-transfer (LET) volume constraints separately to bal…

physics.med-ph2024

Fast Monte Carlo Dose Calculation in Proton Therapy

Jason Holmes, Hongying Feng, Lian Zhang +3

This article examines the critical role of fast Monte Carlo dose calculations in advancing proton therapy techniques, particularly in the context of increasing treatment customizat…

eess.SP2024★ 6 cited

Accurate Patient Alignment without Unnecessary Imaging Dose via Synthesizing Patient-specific 3D CT Images from 2D kV Images

Yuzhen Ding, Jason M. Holmes, Hongying Feng +8

In radiotherapy, 2D orthogonally projected kV images are used for patient alignment when 3D-on-board imaging(OBI) unavailable. But tumor visibility is constrained due to the projec…

physics.med-ph2024

Proton Pencil-Beam Scanning Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy for Thoracic Malignancies: Patterns of Practice Survey and Recommendations for Future Development from NRG Oncology and PTCOG

Wei Liu, Hongying Feng, Paige A. Taylor +13

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and hypofractionation using pencil-beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy (PBSPT) is an attractive option for thoracic malignancies. Combinin…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

The Radiation Oncology NLP Database

Zhengliang Liu, Jason Holmes, Wenxiong Liao +12

We present the Radiation Oncology NLP Database (ROND), the first dedicated Natural Language Processing (NLP) dataset for radiation oncology, an important medical specialty that has…

physics.med-ph2023

Noisy probing dose facilitated dose prediction for pencil beam scanning proton therapy: physics enhances generalizability

Lian Zhang, Jason M. Holmes, Zhengliang Liu +11

Purpose: Prior AI-based dose prediction studies in photon and proton therapy often neglect underlying physics, limiting their generalizability to handle outlier clinical cases, esp…

physics.med-ph2023★ 2 cited

Artificial Intelligence-Facilitated Online Adaptive Proton Therapy Using Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy

Hongying Feng, Jie Shan, Carlos E. Vargas +10

We propose an oAPT workflow that incorporates all these functionalities and validate its clinical implementation feasibility with prostate patients. AI-based auto-segmentation tool…

physics.med-ph2023

Benchmarking a foundation LLM on its ability to re-label structure names in accordance with the AAPM TG-263 report

Jason Holmes, Lian Zhang, Yuzhen Ding +7

Purpose: To introduce the concept of using large language models (LLMs) to re-label structure names in accordance with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Tas…

physics.med-ph2023

Modelling small block aperture in an in-house developed GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo-based dose engine for pencil beam scanning proton therapy

Hongying Feng, Jason M. Holmes, Sujay A. Vora +8

Purpose: To enhance an in-house graphic-processing-unit (GPU) accelerated virtual particle (VP)-based Monte Carlo (MC) proton dose engine (VPMC) to model aperture blocks in both do…

eess.IV2023★ 13 cited

Segment Anything Model (SAM) for Radiation Oncology

Lian Zhang, Zhengliang Liu, Lu Zhang +10

In this study, we evaluate the performance of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) in clinical radiotherapy. Our results indicate that SAM's 'segment anything' mode can achieve clinica…

cs.CV2023★ 24 cited

Deep-Learning-based Fast and Accurate 3D CT Deformable Image Registration in Lung Cancer

Yuzhen Ding, Hongying Feng, Yunze Yang +9

Purpose: In some proton therapy facilities, patient alignment relies on two 2D orthogonal kV images, taken at fixed, oblique angles, as no 3D on-the-bed imaging is available. The v…