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May 2025

Hu awarded an SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship

PhD student Mingzhe Hu has been awarded a 2025 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for potential contributions to optics, photonics, or a related field.

January 2025

Meftahi receives the Best Paper Award from SEAAPM

Moeen Meftahi, PhD, is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Southeast Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (SEAAPM). Meftahi will present his award-winning paper, "A Novel Direction Modulated Brachytherapy Technique for Urethra Sparing in High-Dose-Rate Brachyther" at the SEAAPM 2025 Annual Meeting.

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.”

January 2024

Pan receives Robert F. Wagner award by SPIE Medical Imaging

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.”

December 2023

Meftahi discusses Direction Modulation Brachytherapy

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.

June 2023

Yang quoted in Applied Radiation Oncology

In an article appearing in Applied Radiation Oncology, Yang expands on the benefits of MR-based treatment planning with synthetic CT.

July 2022

Lei receives AAPM recognition and Winship researchers present at annual meeting

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.

January 2020

Yang awarded the AAPM John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award

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.

December 2019

Lei received Reviewer of the Year Award

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

Our paper "MRI-Only Based Synthetic CT Generation Using Dense Cycle Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks" was featured on the cover of the journal Medical Physics.

February 2019

CBCT-based synthetic CT paper featured on cover of Medical Physics

Our paper "Learning‐based CBCT Correction Using Alternating Random Forest Based on Auto‐Context Model" was featured on the cover of the journal Medical Physics.