A collection of achievements and accomplishments by members of the Yang Laboratory.
February 2024
Chen recognized with award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024
Xuxin Chen has been selected as the Second Place winner of the Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024 for the paper, "12927-30: David vs. Goliath: Large foundation models underperform small models in multi-view medical image analysis."
February 2024
Chang and lab team receive SEAAPM Best Paper Award
Chih-Wei Chang and members of the Yang Lab have received the 2024 SEAAPM Best Paper Award for their paper, “Early in vivo Radiation Damage Quantification for Pediatric Craniospinal Irradiation Using Longitudinal MRI for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy.”
PhD student Shaoyan Pan was awarded 1st place in the 2024 Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper by SPIE Medical Imaging for his paper, “3D Volumetric CT Image Reconstruction with Single X-ray Projection Using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model.”
In a Q&A for ESTRO, Moeen Meftahi, PhD, discusses a novel technique, Direction Modulation Brachytherapy, that when used in HDR brachytherapy for prostate cancer reduces urethral dose and its related toxicity.
Research by Yang Lei, PhD, has been selected for presentation during the Science Council Session of the annual AAPM meeting.
May 2022
Wynne selected to participate in B. Holman Research Pathway
Jacob Wynne, MD, a radiation oncology physician resident and Yang lab member, has been selected to participate in the prestigious American Board of Radiology B. Leonard Holman Research Pathway. Dr. Yang is his co-mentor for the grant.
May 2020
Janopaul-Naylor Received ASTRO Resident Research Award
ASTRO's Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee awarded James Janopaul-Naylor, MD the Resident Clinical/Basic Science Research Award in the Physics category for his abstract on CBCT-guided adaptive radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer. Abstract awards are only given to the top-scoring abstracts after a peer review, and in 2020 only 13 winners were selected out of over 3,300 abstract submissions.
Principal investigator Xiaofeng Yang, PhD, was awarded the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award. Created in 2013, the award recognizes a young scientist member of AAPM who has made outstanding research achievements in medical physics.
Dr. Yang Lei received the 2019 Reviewer of the Year Award in Physics in Medicine and Biology by IOP Science, an online service for scientific, technical and medical content.
August 2019
MRI-based synthetic CT paper featured on cover of Medical Physics
