Winship's Department of Radiation Oncology presented 42 abstracts at this year's Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) held July 14-18 in San Antonio.
August 9, 2019
Winship's Department of Radiation Oncology presented 42 abstracts at this year's Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). This year's AAPM theme was "Building Bridges, Cultivating Safety, Growing Value," and was held July 14-18 in San Antonio.
Katja Langen, PhD, associate director of the Division of Medical Physics, was awarded the AAPM Fellowship. This election to Fellowship to the AAPM exemplifies her demonstrated excellence in leadership to the medical physics profession through research and education.
Xiaofeng Yang, PhD, DABR, director of the medical physics residency program, and his lab showcased their significant scientific contributions to the area of artificial intelligence in cancer radiotherapy. They also applied machine learning and deep learning for various areas in radiation oncology, including MRI only based photon and proton radiotherapy, as well as quantitative PET/MRI imaging. These contributions earned them two AAPM awards.
Yang lab members Xue Dong, PhD, and Yang Lei, PhD, who are both postdoctoral fellows, received a Science Council Research Award for their abstract "Chest Multi-organ Segmentation of CT Images with U-Net-GAN." This year's topic was data science in medical physics.
Dong and Lei were also selected from 176 submissions to receive the Jack Krohmer Junior Investigator Award for the abstract "Deep Learning Based Self Attenuation Correction for Whole-Body PET Imaging." This award is judged according to criteria of significance, innovation, and the potential for major scientific impact in an area of cutting-edge interest in medical physics.