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

6 citations · 10 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

eess.IV2026

Personalising Deformable Image Registration with Clinical Context and Deformation History for Adaptive Radiotherapy

Caiwen Jiang, Songlin Zhao, Yuzhen Ding +23

Adaptive radiotherapy must account for anatomical changes during treatment, but doing so depends on reliably mapping targets, organs at risk and dose across serial images. Existing…

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…

cs.AI2025

An Automated Retrieval-Augmented Generation LLaMA-4 109B-based System for Evaluating Radiotherapy Treatment Plans

Junjie Cui, Peilong Wang, Jason Holmes +15

Purpose: To develop a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system powered by LLaMA-4 109B for automated, protocol-aware, and interpretable evaluation of radiotherapy treatment plan…

physics.med-ph2025

Causal Machine Learning Analysis of Empirical Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE) for Mandible Osteoradionecrosis in Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy

Jingyuan Chen, Zhong Liu, Yunze Yang +8

Mandible Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) is one of the most severe adverse events (AEs) for head and neck (H&N) cancer radiotherapy. Previous retrospective investigations on real-world da…

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-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-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★ 2 cited

Study of linear energy transfer effect on rib fracture in breast patients receiving pencil-beam-scanning proton therapy

Yunze Yang, Kimberly R. Gergelis, Jiajian Shen +8

Purpose: To study the effect of proton linear energy transfer (LET) on rib fracture in breast cancer patients treated with pencil-beam scanning proton therapy (PBS) using a novel t…

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…