Publications

Ziyaee H, Cardenas CE, Yeboa DN, Li J, Ferguson SD, Johnson J, Zhou Z, Sanders J, Mumme R, Court L, Briere T, Yang J. Automated Brain Metastases Segmentation With a Deep Dive Into False-positive Detection. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2023;8(1):101085.

Han EY, Wang H, Briere TM, Yeboa DN, Boursianis T, Kalaitzakis G, Pappas E, Castillo P, Yang J. Brain stereotactic radiosurgery using MR-guided online adaptive planning for daily setup variation: An end-to-end test. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(3):e13518, 3/2022. e-Pub 1/2022. PMCID: PMC8906207.

Yan Y, Yang J, Li Y, Ding Y, Kadbi M, Wang J. Impact of geometric distortion on dose deviation for photon and proton treatment plans. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(3):e13517, 3/2022. e-Pub 2/2022. PMCID: PMC8906217.

Lakomy DS, Yang J, Vedam S, Wang J, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Castillo P, Hughes N, Mohammedsaid M, Jhingran A, Klopp AH, Choi S, Fuller CD, Lin LL. Clinical implementation and initial experience with a 1.5 Tesla MR-linac for MR-guided radiotherapy for gynecologic cancer: An R-IDEAL stage 1/2a first in humans/feasibility study of new technology implementation. Pract Radiat Oncol 12(4):e296-e305, Jul-Aug, 7/2022. e-Pub 3/2022. PMCID: PMC9233002.

Lim SY, Tran A, Tran ANK, Sobremonte A, Fuller CD, Simmons L, Yang J. Dose accumulation of daily adaptive plans to decide optimal plan adaptation strategy for head-and-neck patients treated with MR-Linac. Med Dosim 47(1):103-109, Spring, 2022. e-Pub 10/2021. PMCID: PMC8973298.

Han EY, Yeboa DN, Briere TM, Yang J, Wang H. Dosimetric analysis of MR-LINAC treatment plans for salvage spine SBRT re-irradiation. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2022 Aug 25;:e13752. doi: 10.1002/acm2.13752. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36004700.

Lee J, Steinmann A, Ding Y, Lee H, Owens C, Wang J, Yang J, Followill D, Ger R, MacKin D, Court LE. Radiomics feature robustness as measured using an MRI phantom. Sci Rep 11(1):3973, 2/2021. e-Pub 2/2021. PMCID: PMC7889870.

Cardenas CE, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Skinner HD, Yang J, Rhee DJ, McCarroll RE, Netherton TJ, Gay SS, Zhang L, Court LE. Generating High-Quality Lymph Node Clinical Target Volumes for Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy Using a Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Approach. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(3):801-812, 3/2021. e-Pub 10/2020. PMID: 33068690.

Chetvertkov MA, Vassiliev ON, Yang J, Wang HC, Liu AY, Liao Z, Mohan R. Impact of Intra-Fractional Motion on Dose Distributions in Lung IMRT. J Radiother Pract 20(1):12-16, 3/2021. e-Pub 1/2020. PMCID: PMC8218928.

Zhang Y, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter P, Dong L, Yang J. Tissue-specific deformable image registration using a spatial-contextual filter. Comput Med Imaging Graph 88:101849, 3/2021. e-Pub 12/2020. PMCID: PMC7902440.

McDonald BA, Vedam S, Yang J, Wang J, Castillo P, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Ahmed S, Ding Y, Mohamed ASR, Balter P, Hughes N, Thorwarth D, Nachbar M, Philippens MEP, Terhaard CHJ, Zips D, Böke S, Awan MJ, Christodouleas J, Fuller CD, MR-Linac Consortium Head and Neck Tumor Site Group. Initial Feasibility and Clinical Implementation of Daily MR-guided Adaptive Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy on a 1.5T MR-Linac System: Prospective R-IDEAL 2a/2b Systematic Clinical Evaluation of Technical Innovation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(5):1606-1618, 4/2021. e-Pub 12/2020. PMCID: PMC7965360.

Zhao Y, Rhee DJ, Cardenas C, Court LE, Yang J. Training deep-learning segmentation models from severely limited data. Med Phys 48(4):1697-1706, 4/2021. e-Pub 2/2021. PMCID: PMC8058262.

Huang K, Rhee DJ, Ger R, Layman R, Yang J, Cardenas CE, Court LE. Impact of slice thickness, pixel size, and CT dose on the performance of automatic contouring algorithms. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(5):168-174, 5/2021. e-Pub 3/2021. PMCID: PMC8130223.

Roberts DA, Sandin C, Vesanen PT, Lee H, Hanson IM, Nill S, Perik T, Lim SB, Vedam S, Yang J, Woodings SW, Wolthaus JWH, Keller B, Budgell G, Chen X, Li XA. Machine QA for the Elekta Unity system: A Report from the Elekta MR-Linac consortium. Med Phys 48(5):e67-e85, 5/2021. e-Pub 4/2021. PMCID: PMC8251771.

Pollard-Larkin JM, Briere TM, Kudchadker RJ, Sadagopan R, Nitsch PL, Wang XA, Salehpour M, Wang J, Vedam S, Nelson CL, Sahoo N, Zhu XR, Court LE, Balter PA, Robinson IJ, Yang J, Howell RM, Followill DS, Kry S, Beddar SA, Martel MK. Our Experience Leading a Large Medical Physics Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Adv Radiat Oncol 6(4):100683, Jul-Aug, 7/2021. e-Pub 4/2021. PMCID: PMC8016538.

Wang J, Salzillo T, Jiang Y, Mackeyev Y, David Fuller C, Chung C, Choi S, Hughes N, Ding Y, Yang J, Vedam S, Krishnan S. Stability of MRI contrast agents in high-energy radiation of a 1.5T MR-Linac. Radiother Oncol 161:55-64, 8/2021. e-Pub 6/2021. PMCID: PMC8324543.

Weng J, Odwuor A, Yang J, Lee P. High-Field MR-Guided Radiation Therapy for Oligometastatic Central Lung Cancer: Current State and Future Opportunities. Appl Rad Oncol 10(4):40-47, 12/2021.

Chen M, Yang J, Liao Z, Chen J, Xu C, He X, Zhang X, Zhu RX, Li H. Anatomic change over the course of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer patients and its impact on intensity-modulated radiation therapy and passive-scattering proton therapy deliveries. Radiat Oncol 15(1):55, 3/2020. e-Pub 3/2020. PMCID: PMC7059279.

Cardenas CE, Mohamed ASR, Yang J, Gooding M, Veeraraghavan H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Ng SP, Ding Y, Wang J, Lai SY, Fuller CD, Sharp G. Head and neck cancer patient images for determining auto-segmentation accuracy in T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging through expert manual segmentations. Med Phys 47(5):2317-2322, 6/2020. PMCID: PMC7322982.

Yang J, Veeraraghavan H, van Elmpt W, Dekker A, Gooding M, Sharp G. CT images with expert manual contours of thoracic cancer for benchmarking auto-segmentation accuracy. Med Phys 47(7):3250-3255, 7/2020. e-Pub 3/2020. PMID: 32128809.

Niedzielski JS, Wei X, Xu T, Gomez DR, Liao Z, Bankson JA, Lai SY, Court LE, Yang J. Development and application of an elastic net logistic regression model to investigate the impact of cardiac substructure dose on radiation-induced pericardial effusion in patients with NSCLC. Acta Oncol 59(10):1193-1200, 10/2020. e-Pub 7/2020. PMID: 32678696.

Yang J, Mohamed ASR, Bahig H, Ding Y, Wang J, Ng SP, Lai S, Miller A, Hutcheson KA, Fuller CD, Joint Head and Neck Radiotherapy MRI Development Cooperative. Automatic registration of 2D MR cine images for swallowing motion estimation. PLoS One 15(2):e0228652, 2020. e-Pub 2/2020. PMCID: PMC7012439.

Han EY, Aima M, Hughes N, Briere TM, Yeboa DN, Castillo P, Wang J, Yang J, Vedam S. Feasibility of spinal stereotactic body radiotherapy in Elekta Unity® MR-Linac. J Radiosurg SBRT 7(2):127-134, 2020. PMCID: PMC7717094.

Yang J, Vedam S, Lee B, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Hughes N, Mohammedsaid M, Wang J, Choi S. Online adaptive planning for prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy using a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging-guided linear accelerator. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 17:20-24, 1/2021. e-Pub 12/2020. PMCID: PMC8057955.

Luo Y, Xu Y, Liao Z, Gomez D, Wang J, Jiang W, Zhou R, Williamson R, Court LE, Yang J. Automatic segmentation of cardiac substructures from noncontrast CT images: accurate enough for dosimetric analysis? Acta Oncol 58(1):1-7, 1/2019. e-Pub 10/2018. PMCID: PMC6377299.

Wu RY, Liu AY, Wisdom P, Zhu XR, Frank SJ, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Palmer MB, Wages CA, Gillin MT, Yang J. Characterization of a new physical phantom for testing rigid and deformable image registration. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(1):145-153, 1/2019. e-Pub 12/2018. PMCID: PMC6333135.

Kisling K, Zhang L, Simonds H, Fakie N, Yang J, McCarroll R, Balter P, Burger H, Bogler O, Howell R, Schmeler K, Mejia M, Beadle BM, Jhingran A, Court L. Fully Automatic Treatment Planning for External-Beam Radiation Therapy of Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: A Tool for Low-Resource Clinics. J Glob Oncol 5:1-9, 1/2019. PMCID: PMC6426517.

Ge S, Wang X, Liao Z, Zhang L, Sahoo N, Yang J, Guan F, Mohan R. Potential for Improvements in Robustness and Optimality of Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy for Lung Cancer with 4-Dimensional Robust Optimization. Cancers (Basel) 11(1), 1/2019. e-Pub 1/2019. PMCID: PMC6356681.

Stecklein SR, Shaitelman SF, Babiera GV, Bedrosian I, Black DM, Ballo MT, Arzu I, Strom EA, Reed VK, Dvorak T, Smith BD, Woodward WA, Hoffman KE, Schlembach PJ, Kirsner SM, Nelson CL, Yang J, Guerra W, Dibaj S, Bloom ES. Prospective Comparison of Toxicity and Cosmetic Outcome After Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation with Conformal External Beam Radiotherapy or Single-Entry Multilumen Intracavitary Brachytherapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 9(1):e4-e13, 1/2019. e-Pub 8/2018. PMCID: PMC6321793.

Fang R, Yang J, Du W, Court L. Automatic detection of graticule isocenter and scale from kV and MV images. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(4):18-28, 4/2019. e-Pub 3/2019. PMID: 30843335.

Wang X, Yang J, Zhao Z, Luo D, Court L, Zhang Y, Weksberg D, Brown PD, Li J, Ghia AJ. Dosimetric impact of esophagus motion in single fraction spine stereotactic body radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol 64(11):115010, 5/2019. e-Pub 5/2019. PMID: 31018191.

Mackin D, Ger R, Gay S, Dodge C, Zhang L, Yang J, Jones AK, Court L. Matching and Homogenizing Convolution Kernels for Quantitative Studies in Computed Tomography. Invest Radiol 54(5):288-295, 5/2019. e-Pub 12/2018. PMCID: PMC6449212.

Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhang L, Balter P, Court L. Technical Note: Density correction to improve CT number mapping in thoracic deformable image registration. Med Phys 46(5):2330-2336, 5/2019. e-Pub 4/2019. PMCID: PMC6510598.

Cardenas CE, Yang J, Anderson BM, Court LE, Brock KB. Advances in Auto-Segmentation. Semin Radiat Oncol 29(3):185-197, 7/2019. PMID: 31027636.

Kisling K, Zhang L, Shaitelman SF, Anderson D, Thebe T, Yang J, Balter PA, Howell RM, Jhingran A, Schmeler K, Simonds H, du Toit M, Trauernicht C, Burger H, Botha K, Joubert N, Beadle BM, Court L. Automated treatment planning of postmastectomy radiotherapy. Med Phys 46(9):3767-3775, 9/2019. e-Pub 7/2019. PMCID: PMC6739169.

Wu RY, Liu AY, Williamson TD, Yang J, Wisdom PG, Zhu XR, Frank SJ, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Gao S. Quantifying the accuracy of deformable image registration for cone-beam computed tomography with a physical phantom. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(10):92-100, 10/2019. e-Pub 9/2019. PMCID: PMC6806467.

Rhee DJ, Cardenas CE, Elhalawani H, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Garden AS, Peterson CB, Beadle BM, Court LE. Automatic detection of contouring errors using convolutional neural networks. Med Phys 46(11):5086-5097, 11/2019. e-Pub 9/2019. PMCID: PMC6842055.

Heukelom J, Kantor ME, Mohamed ASR, Elhalawani H, Kocak-Uzel E, Lin T, Yang J, Aristophanous M, Rasch CR, Fuller CD, Sonke JJ. Differences between planned and delivered dose for head and neck cancer, and their consequences for normal tissue complication probability and treatment adaptation. Radiother Oncol 142:100-106, 1/2020. e-Pub 8/2019. PMCID: PMC7401328.

Wu RY, Liu AY, Yang J, Williamson TD, Wisdom PG, Bronk L, Gao S, Grosshan DR, Fuller DC, Gunn GB, Ronald Zhu X, Frank SJ. Evaluation of the accuracy of deformable image registration on MRI with a physical phantom. J Appl Clin Med Phys 21(1):166-173, 1/2020. e-Pub 12/2019. PMCID: PMC6964753.

Ger RB, Cardenas CE, Anderson BM, Yang J, Mackin DS, Zhang L, Court LE. Guidelines and Experience Using Imaging Biomarker Explorer (IBEX) for Radiomics. J Vis Exp(131), 1/2018. e-Pub 1/2018. PMID: 29364284.

Mackin D, Ger R, Dodge C, Fave X, Chi PC, Zhang L, Yang J, Bache S, Dodge C, Jones AK, Court L. Effect of tube current on computed tomography radiomic features. Sci Rep 8(1):2354, 2/2018. e-Pub 2/2018. PMID: 29403060.

Wang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Dong L, Balter PA, Court LE, Yang J. Technical Note: Solving the "Chinese postman problem" for effective contour deformation. Med Phys 45(2):767-772, 2/2018. e-Pub 12/2017. PMID: 29178498.

Yan Y, Yang J, Beddar S, Ibbott G, Wen Z, Court LE, Hwang KP, Kadbi M, Krishnan S, Fuller CD, Frank SJ, Yang J, Balter P, Kudchadker RJ, Wang J. A methodology to investigate the impact of image distortions on the radiation dose when using magnetic resonance images for planning. Phys Med Biol 63(8):085005, 4/2018. e-Pub 4/2018. PMID: 29528037.

Court LE, Kisling K, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Simonds H, du Toit M, Trauernicht C, Burger H, Parkes J, Mejia M, Bojador M, Balter P, Branco D, Steinmann A, Baltz G, Gay S, Anderson B, Cardenas C, Jhingran A, Shaitelman S, Bogler O, Schmeller K, Followill D, Howell R, Nelson C, Peterson C, Beadle B. Radiation Planning Assistant - A Streamlined, Fully Automated Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System. J Vis Exp(134), 4/2018. e-Pub 4/2018. PMID: 29708544.

Zhang Z, Yang J, Ho A, Jiang W, Logan J, Wang X, Brown PD, McGovern SL, Guha-Thakurta N, Ferguson SD, Fave X, Zhang L, Mackin D, Court LE, Li J. A predictive model for distinguishing radiation necrosis from tumour progression after gamma knife radiosurgery based on radiomic features from MR images. Eur Radiol 28(6):2255-2263, 6/2018. e-Pub 11/2017. PMID: 29178031.

Cardenas CE, McCarroll RE, Court LE, Elgohari BA, Elhalawani H, Fuller CD, Kamal MJ, Meheissen MAM, Mohamed ASR, Rao A, Williams B, Wong A, Yang J, Aristophanous M. Deep Learning Algorithm for Auto-Delineation of High-Risk Oropharyngeal Clinical Target Volumes with Built-in Dice Similarity Coefficient Parameter Optimization Function. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 101(2):468-478, 6/2018. e-Pub 2/2018. PMID: 29559291.

McCarroll RE, Beadle BM, Balter PA, Burger H, Cardenas CE, Dalvie S, Followill DS, Kisling KD, Mejia M, Naidoo K, Nelson CL, Peterson CB, Vorster K, Wetter J, Zhang L, Court LE, Yang J. Retrospective Validation and Clinical Implementation of Automated Contouring of Organs at Risk in the Head and Neck: A Step toward Automated Radiation Treatment Planning for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. J Glob Oncol 4:1-11, 7/2018. PMID: 30110221.

Ger RB, Yang J, Ding Y, Jacobsen MC, Cardenas CE, Fuller CD, Howell RM, Li H, Stafford RJ, Zhou S, Court LE. Synthetic Head and Neck and Phantom Images for Determining Deformable Image Registration Accuracy in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Med Phys 45(9):4315-4321. e-Pub 7/2018. PMID: 30007075.

Zhang Z, Yang J, Ho A, Jiang W, Logan J, Wang X, Brown PD, McGovern SL, Guha-Thakurta N, Ferguson SD, Fave X, Zhang L, Mackin D, Court LE, Li J. Correction to: A predictive model for distinguishing radiation necrosis from tumour progression after gamma knife radiosurgery based on radiomic features from MR images. Eur Radiol 28(8):3570-3571, 8/2018. e-Pub 3/2018. PMID: 29541912.

Kisling KD, Ger RB, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Owens CA, Anderson BM, Lee J, Rhee DJ, Edward SS, Gay SS, He Y, David SD, Yang J, Nitsch PL, Balter PA, Urbauer DL, Peterson CB, Court LE, Dube S. A snapshot of medical physics practice patterns. J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(6):306-315. e-Pub 10/2018. PMID: 30272385.

Yang J, Veeraraghavan H, Armato SG, Farahani K, Kirby JS, Kalpathy-Kramer J, van Elmpt W, Dekker A, Han X, Feng X, Aljabar P, Oliveira B, van der Heyden B, Zamdborg L, Lam D, Gooding M, Sharp GC. Auto-segmentation for Thoracic Radiation Treatment Planning: A Grand Challenge at AAPM 2017. Med Phys 45(10):4568-4581, 10/2018. e-Pub 9/2018. PMID: 30144101.

Owens CA, Peterson CB, Tang C, Koay EJ, Yu W, Mackin DS, Li J, Salehpour MR, Fuentes DT, Court LE, Yang J. Lung tumor segmentation methods: Impact on the uncertainty of radiomics features for non-small cell lung cancer. PLoS One 13(10):e0205003, 10/2018. e-Pub 10/2018. PMID: 30286184.

Cardenas CE, Anderson BM, Aristophanous M, Yang J, Rhee DJ, McCarroll RE, Mohamed ASR, Kamal M, Elgohari BA, Elhalawani HM, Fuller CD, Rao A, Garden AS, Court LE. Auto-delineation of oropharyngeal clinical target volumes using 3D convolutional neural networks. Phys Med Biol 63(21):215026, 11/2018. e-Pub 11/2018. PMID: 30403188.

Mackin D, Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Jones AK, Ng CS, Court L. Correction: Harmonizing the pixel size in retrospective computed tomography radiomics studies. PLoS One 13(1):e0191597, 2018. e-Pub 1/2018. PMCID: PMC5771629.

Zhou R, Liao Z, Pan T, Milgrom SA, Pinnix CC, Shi A, Tang L, Yang J, Liu Y, Gomez D, Nguyen QN, Dabaja BS, Court L, Yang J. Cardiac atlas development and validation for automatic segmentation of cardiac substructures. Radiother Oncol 122(1):66-71, 1/2017. e-Pub 12/2016. PMCID: PMC5292289.

McCarroll RE, Beadle BM, Fullen D, Balter PA, Followill DS, Stingo FC, Yang J, Court LE. Reproducibility of patient set-up in the seated treatment position:  A novel treatment chair design. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(1):223-229, 1/2017. PMID: 28291911.

Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Balter P, Gomez D, Followill D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Liao Z, Mohan R, Court L. Delta-radiomics features for the prediction of patient outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer. Sci Rep 7(1):588, 4/2017. e-Pub 4/2017. PMID: 28373718.

Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Stingo F, Liao Z, Gomez D, Mohan R, Martel M, Briere T, Court L. A Novel Methodology using CT Imaging Biomarkers to Quantify Radiation Sensitivity in the Esophagus with Application to Clinical Trials. Sci Rep 7(1):6034, 7/2017. e-Pub 7/2017. PMCID: PMC5519548.

Rubinstein AE, Ingram WS, Anderson BM, Gay SS, Fave XJ, Ger RB, McCarroll RE, Owens CA, Netherton TJ, Kisling KD, Court LE, Yang J, Li Y, Lee J, Mackin DS, Cardenas CE. Cost-effective immobilization for whole brain radiation therapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(4):116-122, 7/2017. e-Pub 6/2017. PMID: 28585732.

Verma V, Simone CB, Krishnan S, Lin SH, Yang J, Hahn SM. The Rise of Radiomics and Implications for Oncologic Management. J Natl Cancer Inst 109(7), 7/2017. PMID: 28423406.

Ingram WS, Yang J, Wendt R, Beadle BM, Rao A, Wang XA, Court LE. The influence of non-rigid anatomy and patient positioning on endoscopy-CT image registration in the head and neck. Med Phys 44(8):4159-4168, 8/2017. e-Pub 6/2017. PMID: 28513864.

Wang X, Zhao Z, Luo D, Yang, JN, Yang J, Chang EL, Brown PD, Li J, McAleer MF, Ghia AJ. Submillimeter alignment of more than three contiguous vertebrae in spinal SRS/SBRT with 6-degree couch. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(5):225-236, 9/2017. e-Pub 8/2017. PMID: 28786235.

Ger RB, Yang J, Ding Y, Jacobsen MC, Fuller CD, Howell RM, Li H, Stafford RJ, Zhou S, Court LE. Accuracy of Deformable Image Registration on Magnetic Resonance Images in Digital and Physical Phantoms. Med Phys 44(10):5153-5161, 10/2017. e-Pub 7/2017. PMID: 28622410.

Shiraishi Y, Xu C, Yang J, Komaki R, Lin SH. Dosimetric comparison to the heart and cardiac substructure in a large cohort of esophageal cancer patients treated with proton beam therapy or Intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Radiother Oncol 125(1):48-54, 10/2017. e-Pub 9/2017. PMID: 28917586.

Yang J, Haas B, Fang R, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Liao Z, Zhang L, Balter P, Court L. Atlas ranking and selection for automatic segmentation of the esophagus from CT scans. Phys Med Biol 62(23):9140-9158, 11/2017. e-Pub 11/2017. PMID: 29049027.

Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Mohan R, Titt U, Mirkovic D, Stingo F, Liao Z, Gomez DR, Martel MK, Briere TM, Court LE. Differences in Normal Tissue Response in the Esophagus Between Proton and Photon Radiation Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Using In Vivo Imaging Biomarkers. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 99(4):1013-1020, 11/2017. e-Pub 7/2017. PMID: 29063837.

Mackin D, Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Jones AK, Ng CS, Court L. Harmonizing the Pixel Size in Retrospective Computed Tomography Radiomics Studies. PLoS One 12(9):e0178524, 2017. e-Pub 9/2017. PMCID: PMC5608195.

Ingram WS, Yang J, Beadle BM, Wendt R, Rao A, Wang XA, Court LE. The feasibility of endoscopy-CT image registration in the head and neck without prospective endoscope tracking. PLoS One 12(5):e0177886, 2017. e-Pub 5/2017. PMCID: PMC5436843.

Farnia B, Philip N, Georges RH, McAleer MF, Palmer M, Yang J, Allen PK, Martel MK, Mahajan A, McGovern SL. Reirradiation of Recurrent Pediatric Brain Tumors after Initial Proton Therapy. International Journal of Particle Therapy 3(1):1-12, 4/2016. e-Pub 4/2016.

Tucker SL, Liu A, Gomez D, Tang LL, Allen P, Yang J, Liao Z, Grosshans D. Impact of heart and lung dose on early survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with chemoradiation. Radiother Oncol 119(3):495-500, 6/2016. e-Pub 5/2016. PMID: 27189523.

Court LE, Fave X, Mackin D, Lee J, Yang J, Zhang L. Computational resources for radiomics. Translational Cancer Research 5(4):340-348, 7/2016.

Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Balter P, Gomez D, Followill D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Court LE. Impact of image preprocessing on the volume dependence and prognostic potential of radiomics features in non-small cell lung cancer. Translational Cancer Research 5(4):349-363, 7/2016.

Weygand J, Fuller CD, Ibbott GS, Mohamed AS, Ding Y, Yang J, Hwang KP, Wang J. Spatial Precision in Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Radiation Therapy: The Role of Geometric Distortion. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 95(4):1304-16, 7/2016. e-Pub 3/2016. PMID: 27354136.

Wang X, Yang JN, Zhao Z, Yang J, Luo D, Briere T, Pino R, Li J, McAller MF, Weksberg D, Brown PD, Ghia A. Prospective evaluation of target and spinal cord motion and dosimetric changes with respiration in spinal stereotactic body radiation therapy utilizing 4-D CT. Journal of Radiosurgery and SBRT 4(3):191-201, 9/2016.

Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Liao Z, Gomez DR, Stingo F, Mohan R, Martel MK, Briere TM, Court LE. 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography can quantify and predict esophageal injury during radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 96(3):670-8, 11/2016. e-Pub 7/2016. PMID: 27681764.

D'Souza NM, Fang P, Logan J, Yang J, Jiang W, Li J. Combining Radiation Therapy with Immune Checkpoint Blockade for Central Nervous System Malignancies. Front Oncol 6:212, 2016. e-Pub 10/2016. PMCID: PMC5053992.

Yu ZH, Kudchadker R, Dong L, Zhang Y, Court LE, Mourtada F, Yock A, Tucker SL, Yang J. Learning anatomy changes from patient populations to create artificial CT images for voxel-level validation of deformable image registration. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(1):5888, 2016. e-Pub 1/2016. PMID: 26894362.

Zhang L, Fried DV, Fave XJ, Hunter LA, Yang J, Court LE. IBEX: an open infrastructure software platform to facilitate collaborative work in radiomics. Med Phys 42(3):1341-53, 3/2015. PMCID: PMC5148126.

Mohamed AS, Ruangskul MN, Awan MJ, Baron CA, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Castillo R, Castillo E, Guerrero TM, Kocak-Uzel E, Yang J, Court LE, Kantor ME, Gunn GB, Colen RR, Frank SJ, Garden AS, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD. Quality assurance assessment of diagnostic and radiation therapy-simulation CT image registration for head and neck radiation therapy: anatomic region of interest-based comparison of rigid and deformable algorithms. Radiology 274(3):752-63, 3/2015. e-Pub 11/2014. PMCID: PMC4358813.

Awan M, Dyer BA, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Bongers E, Dahele M, Yang J, Walker GV, Thaker NG, Holliday E, Bishop AJ, Thomas CR, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD. Auto-segmentation of the brachial plexus assessed with TaCTICS - a software platform for rapid multiple-metric quantitative evaluation of contours. Acta Oncol 54(4):557-60, 4/2015. e-Pub 10/2014. PMCID: PMC4801518.

Ding Y, Mohamed AS, Yang J, Colen RR, Frank SJ, Wang J, Wassal EY, Wang W, Kantor ME, Balter PA, Rosenthal DI, Lai SY, Hazle JD, Fuller CD. Prospective observer and software-based assessment of magnetic resonance imaging quality in head and neck cancer: Should standard positioning and immobilization be required for radiation therapy applications? Pract Radiat Oncol 5(4):e299-308, Jul-Aug, 7/2015. e-Pub 12/2014. PMCID: PMC4470880.

McCarroll RE, Rubinstein AE, Kingsley CV, Yang J, Yang P, Court LE. 3D-Printed Small-Animal Immobilizer for Use in Preclinical Radiotherapy. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci 54(5):545-8, 9/2015. PMCID: PMC4587623.

Yang J, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Schwartz DL, Aristophanous M. A multimodality segmentation framework for automatic target delineation in head and neck radiotherapy. Med Phys 42(9):5310, 9/2015. PMCID: PMC4545076.

Fave X, Cook M, Frederick A, Zhang L, Yang J, Fried D, Stingo F, Court L. Preliminary investigation into sources of uncertainty in quantitative imaging features. Comput Med Imaging Graph 44:54-61, 9/2015. e-Pub 5/2015. PMID: 26004695.

Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter PA, Dong L. Erratum: "Modeling respiratory motion for reducing motion artifacts in 4D CT images" [Med. Phys. 40, 041716 (13pp.) (2013)]. Med Phys 42(11):6768, 11/2015. PMID: 26520766.

Mackin D, Fave X, Zhang L, Fried D, Yang J, Taylor B, Rodriguez-Rivera E, Dodge C, Jones AK, Court L. Measuring Computed Tomography Scanner Variability of Radiomics Features. Invest Radiol 50(11):757-65, 11/2015. e-Pub 6/2015. PMCID: PMC4598251.

Fave X, Mackin D, Yang J, Zhang J, Fried D, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Fontenot J, Court L. Can radiomics features be reproducibly measured from CBCT images for patients with non-small cell lung cancer? Med Phys 42(12):6784-6797, 12/2015. PMCID: PMC5148115.

Zhang Y, Rana S, Gao S, Zhang L, Court LE, Yang J. Intensity-Based Deformable Image Registration with Anatomical Constraints for Adaptive Radiation Therapy. Recent Patents and Topics on Imaging 5(2):97-103, 12/2015.

Niedzielski JS, Yang J, Stingo F, Martel MK, Mohan R, Gomez DR, Briere TM, Liao Z, Court LE. Objectively Quantifying Radiation Esophagitis With Novel Computed Tomography-Based Metrics. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 94(2):385-93, 2/2016. e-Pub 10/2015. PMCID: PMC4747797.

Yang J, Zhang L, Fave XJ, Fried DV, Stingo FC, Ng CS, Court LE. Uncertainty analysis of quantitative imaging features extracted from contrast-enhanced CT in lung tumors. Comput Med Imaging Graph 48:1-8, 3/2016. e-Pub 12/2015. PMCID: PMC4755872.

Hunter LA, Chen YP, Zhang L, Matney JE, Choi H, Kry SF, Martel MK, Stingo F, Liao Z, Gomez D, Yang J, Court LE. NSCLC tumor shrinkage prediction using quantitative image features. Comput Med Imaging Graph 49:29-36, 4/2016. e-Pub 11/2015. PMID: 26878137.

Yang J, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Gunn B, Rosenthal D, Ang K, Frank S, Williamson R, Balter P, Court L, Dong L. Auto-segmentation of low-risk clinical target volume for head and neck radiation therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 4(1):e31-7, Jan-Feb, 1/2014. e-Pub 5/2013. PMID: 24621429.

Yang J, Woodward WA, Reed VK, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Buchholz TA, Zhang L, Balter P, Court LE, Li XA, Dong L. Statistical modeling approach to quantitative analysis of interobserver variability in breast contouring. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 89(1):214-21, 5/2014. e-Pub 3/2014. PMCID: PMC3997068.

Sharp G, Fritscher KD, Pekar V, Peroni M, Shusharina N, Veeraraghavan H, Yang J. Vision 20/20: perspectives on automated image segmentation for radiotherapy. Med Phys 41(5):050902, 5/2014. PMCID: PMC4000389.

Fave X, Yang J, Carvalho L, Martin R, Pan T, Balter P, Court L. Upright cone beam CT imaging using the onboard imager. Med Phys 41(6):061906, 6/2014. PMID: 24877817.

Palmer J, Yang J, Pan T, Court LE. Motion of the esophagus due to cardiac motion. PLoS One 9(2):e89126, 2014. e-Pub 2/2014. PMCID: PMC3938435.

Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Gao S, Balter PA, Dong L. Digital reconstruction of high-quality daily 4D cone-beam CT images using prior knowledge of anatomy and respiratory motion. Comput Med Imaging Graph 40:30-8, 3/2015. e-Pub 10/2014. PMID: 25467806.

Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter PA, Dong L. Modeling respiratory motion for reducing motion artifacts in 4D CT images. Med Phys 40(4):041716, 4/2013. PMID: 23556886.

Yang J, Amini A, Williamson R, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Komaki R, Liao Z, Cox J, Welsh J, Court L, Dong L. Automatic contouring of brachial plexus using a multi-atlas approach for lung cancer radiation therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 3(4):e139-47, Oct-Dec, 10/2013. e-Pub 2/2013. PMID: 24674411.

Yang J, Chu D, Dong L, Court LE. Advantages of simulating thoracic cancer patients in an upright position. Pract Radiat Oncol 4(1):e53-8, Jan-Feb, 1/2014. e-Pub 6/2013. PMID: 24621432.

Amini A, Yang J, Williamson R, McBurney ML, Erasmus J, Allen PK, Karhade M, Komaki R, Liao Z, Gomez D, Cox J, Dong L, Welsh J. Dose constraints to prevent radiation-induced brachial plexopathy in patients treated for lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 82(3):e391-8, 3/2012. PMCID: PMC3786565.

Yang J, Garden AS, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Dong L. Variable planning margin approach to account for locoregional variations in setup uncertainties. Med Phys 39(8):5136-44, 8/2012. PMCID: PMC3416883.

Yang J, Wei C, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Blum RS, Dong L. A statistical modeling approach for evaluating auto-segmentation methods for image-guided radiotherapy. Comput Med Imaging Graph 36(6):492-500, 9/2012. e-Pub 6/2012. PMCID: PMC3398201.

Gao S, Zhang Y, Yang J, Wang C, Court L, and Dong L. A Hybrid Algorithm to Address Ambiguities in Deformable Image Registration for Radiation Therapy. International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology 1(2):50-9, 2012.

Yang J, Williams JP, Sun Y, Blum RS, Xu C. A Robust Hybrid Method for Nonrigid Image Registration. Pattern Recognition 44(4):764-76, 2011.

Yang J. The Thin Plate Spline Robust Point Matching (TPS-RPM) Algorithm: A Revisit. Pattern Recognition Letters 32(7):910-8, 2011.