Nearly 25 abstracts by faculty and residents from Winship Cancer Institute and Emory's Department of Radiation Oncology were featured at the 2020 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)/Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) Joint Virtual Meeting.
July 17, 2020
Nearly 25 abstracts by faculty and residents from Winship Cancer Institute and Emory's Department of Radiation Oncology were featured at the 2020 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)/Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) Joint Virtual Meeting. The meeting, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, took place from July 12 - July 16.
Xiaofeng Yang, PhD, DABR, director of the medical physics residency program, was honored at an award ceremony on July 14 for receiving the AAPM John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award. The award is given annually to a promising young medical physics investigator in North America. On Sunday, Yang presented during a multidisciplinary scientific session on "Medical Image Synthesis in Radiotherapy" and an ePoster on "A Patient-Specific Deep-Self-Supervised High-Resolution Method for CT Imaging." He later presented research on "Real-Time Patient-Specific Volumetric Imaging for Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Via InferGAN with Perceptual Supervision."
Stella Flampouri, PhD, MSc presented an AAPM Point/Counterpoint session Wednesday on whether most pediatric patients should be treated at proton therapy centers.
Winship faculty Zhen Tian, PhD gave three presentations: an ePoster, a proffered AAPM Therapy Scientific session on "Multiresolution-Level Inverse Planning for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma," and on the last day of the meeting, a study on "Deep-Learning Based Auto-Detection of Brain Metastases for Stereotactic Radiosurgery."
Also on the final day, Clinical Medical Physicist Roelf Slopsema, MSc, DABR and Medical physics resident Xianjin Dai, PhD gave oral presentations on "Designing an Ocular Option for the ProBeam Proton Pencil-Beam-Scanning System" and "MRI Multi-Needle Reconstruction Using Deep Learning for MRI-Guided Prostate Cancer Brachytherapy." Tonghe Wang, PhD, a previous Winship medical physics resident who joined the faculty in 2019, presented a study on "Synthetic Dual Energy CT Images from Single Energy CT Image for Proton Radiotherapy."
Additional Winship presenters included faculty Eduard Schreibmann, PhD, DABR and Hao Gao, PhD, medical physics residents Serdar Charyyev, PhD and Joe Harms, PhD and Brain Imaging Group member and PhD student Karthik Ramesh.