Publications

Published:

1. Choi WP, Islam MZ, Mazzarelli LJ, Solnes LB, Shuch B, Viglianti BL, Repka MC, Afaq A, Werner RA, Gorin MA, Rowe SP. Toward a structured imaging reporting system for kidney masses: The molecular imaging perspective on KI-RADS. Molecular Imaging and Biology. 2026. doi:10.1007/s11307-026-02122-8. (Link)

2. Islam MZ, Perk TG, Weisman A, Markowski MW, Pienta KJ, Whang YE, Milowsky MI, Pomper MG, Wisniewski N, Bundschuh RA, Werner RA, Gorin MA, Rowe SP. Repeatability of semi-quantitative and volumetric features from artificial intelligence-guided lesion segmentation on 18F-DCFPyL PSMA-PET/CT images: Results from a test-retest cohort. Tomography. 2026;12:38. doi:10.3390/tomography12030038. (Journal link, pdf)

3. Oldan JD, Anugu A, Islam MZ, Amindarolzarbi A, Werner RA, Pomper MG, Solnes LB, Almaguel F, Moschos S, Viglianti BL, Rowe SP. Theranostics 2.0: Target-driven, artificial intelligence-enabled cancer therapy across tumor types. Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging. 2025. doi:10.1016/j.diii.2025.07.003. (Link)

4. Islam MZ, Spiro E, Yap P, Gorin MA, Rowe SP. The potential of generative AI with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT: Challenges and future directions. Medical Review. 2025. doi:10.1515/mr-2024-0086. (Journal link) (Pdf link)

5. Islam MZ, Abele E, Hossain FH, Ahmad A, Ekin S, O'Hara JF. Free-space optical channel turbulence prediction: A machine learning approach. IEEE Communications Letters. 2025;29(5):1126-1130. doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2025.3555162. (IEEEXplore link) (pdf link)

6. Martin B, Islam MZ, Gotcher C, Martinez T, O'Hara JF, Ekin S. Fundamental limits of light-wave sensing for non-contact respiration monitoring. Biomedical Optics Express. 2024;15:6449-6468. (Link)

7. Rowe SP, Islam MZ, Viglianti BL, Solnes LB, Baraban E, Gorin MA, Oldan JD. Molecular imaging for non-invasive risk stratification of renal masses. Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging. 2024. doi:10.1016/j.diii.2024.07.003. (Journal link)

8. Islam MZ, Martin B, Gotcher C, Martinez T, O'Hara JF, Ekin S. Noncontact respiratory anomaly detection using infrared light-wave sensing. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 2024;54(3):292-303. doi:10.1109/THMS.2024.3381574. (Journal link) (pdf link)

9. Messenger R, Islam MZ, Whitlock M, Spong E, Morton N, Claggett L, Matthews C, Fox J, Palmer L, Johnson DC, O'Hara JF, Crick CJ, Jacob JD, Ekin S. Real-time traffic end-of-queue detection and tracking in UAV video. International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research. 2023. doi:10.1007/s13177-023-00374-0. (Journal link) (pdf link)

10. Islam MZ, O'Hara JF, Shadoan D, Ibrahim M, Ekin S. TV white space based wireless broadband internet connectivity: A case study with implementation details and performance analysis. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 2021;2:2449-2462. doi:10.1109/OJCOMS.2021.3123939. (Journal link) (pdf link)

11. Yu L, Abuella H, Islam MZ, O'Hara JF, Crick C, Ekin S. Gesture recognition using reflected visible and infrared lightwave signals. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 2021;51(1):44-55. doi:10.1109/THMS.2020.3043302. (Journal link) (pdf link)

Submitted:

12. Islam MZ, Wisniewski N, Do QN, Solnes LB, Werner RA, Bundschuh RA, Gorin MA, Pomper MG, Bowen SL, Afaq A, Rowe SP. Repeatability of 18F-DCFPyL PSMA-PET radiomic features in metastatic prostate cancer: An absolute agreement analysis using feature transformation. Radiology: Imaging Cancer. 2026.

13. Islam MZ, Do QN, Wang J, Yang DX, Desai N, Hannan R, Werner RA, Bundschuh RA, Gorin MA, Öz OK, Pomper MG, Rowe SP, Afaq A. Radiomics in PSMA-PET imaging for prostate cancer: Challenges and future directions toward multimodal artificial intelligence. EJNMMI Reports. 2026.

14. Gupta N, Öz OK, Pomper MG, Gorin MA, Almaguel FL, Islam MZ, Rowe SP. Impact of whole-body field of view on patient management in PSMA PET imaging: A single-center retrospective study. Nuclear Medicine Communications. 2026.

15. Choi WP, Oldan JD, Charles J, Öz OK, Almaguel FG, Solnes LB, Islam MZ, Rowe SP, Saad E. Whole-body nuclear medicine imaging of infection and inflammation. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 2026.

16. Moin A, Markowski MC, Pienta KJ, Pomper MG, Kandathil A, Bundschuh RA, Werner RA, Solnes LB, Lewis M, Almaguel FG, Gorin MA, Islam MZ, Rowe SP. Test-retest repeatability of peripheral ganglia uptake on 18F-DCFPyL PET/CT: Implications for interpreting benign uptake on PSMA PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2026. 

1. Islam MZ, Yu L, Abuella H, O'Hara JF, Crick C, Ekin S. Hand gesture recognition through reflected infrared light wave signals. In: Proceedings of the 2023 10th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE); 2023; Istanbul, Türkiye. p. 1-5. doi:10.1109/ICEEE59925.2023.00008.  (IEEEXplore link) (pdf link) (Won best presentation award for this paper)

2. Abuella H, Islam MZ, Messenger R, O'Hara JF, Ekin S. Analysis and empirical validation of visible light path loss model for vehicular sensing and communication. In: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC); 2024; Big Island, HI, USA. p. 1027-1031. doi:10.1109/ICNC59896.2024.10556147.  (IEEEXplore link) (pdf link)

3. Islam MZ, O'Hara JF, Ekin S, Yen G. Evolutionary optimization of 1D-CNN for non-contact respiration pattern classification. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing, and Explainable AI (NAFIPS 2024); 2024; South Padre Island, TX, USA.  (Accepted and presented) (Arxiv preprint link)

1. Islam MZ, Martin B, Gotcher C, Martinez T, O'Hara JF, Ekin S. Respiratory anomaly detection using reflected infrared light wave signals. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2024); 2024; Oakland, CA, USA.  (Conf. proc. front matter) (Arxiv preprint link)

2. Islam MZ, Wisniewski N, Do QN, Solnes LB, Pomper MG, Afaq A, Rowe SP. Test-retest repeatability of 18F-DCFPyL PSMA-PET radiomic features using ICC and feature transformation. In: World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2026; 2026. (Accepted) 

3. Islam MZ, Manzur O, Do QN, Pomper MG, Rowe SP, Afaq A. Defining progression in the PSMA PET era: A large-scale simulation study of contemporary response criteria. In: Society for Advanced Body Imaging (SABI) Annual Meeting; 2026. (Accepted) 

4. Islam MZ, Manzur O, Do QN, Pomper MG, Rowe SP, Afaq A. Comparison of PSMA PET/CT progression criteria in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with 177Lu-PSMA-617: A 1,000-patient simulation study. In: Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting; 2026. (Accepted)