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Chenyang Shen, Ph.D.

Chenyang Shen, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Assistant Professor

School
Graduate School
Department
Radiation Oncology
Graduate Programs
Biomedical Engineering
  • Biography

    Chenyang Shen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, earned his bachelor’s degree from Yangzhou University and both his master’s and Ph.D. at Hong Kong Baptist University. After completing his medical physics residency in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern, he stayed on as faculty in the Division of Medical Physics and Engineering.

    Dr. Shen's clinical focus is on RefleXion and EROC TPOD; his research interests include machine learning and deep learning for medical applications, medical imaging and image processing, intelligent automatic treatment planning for radiotherapy, and optimization techniques and algorithms.

    Dr. Shen is the recipient of several awards including ASTRO’s Basic/Translational Science Award for Junior Investigator (physics category) and AAPM’s Best in Physics (Therapy).

  • Research Interest
    • Intelligent automatic treatment planning for radiotherapy
    • Machine learning and deep learning for medical applications
    • Medical imaging and image processing
    • Optimization techniques and algorithms
  • Publications
    Commissioning of the RefleXion X1 Linear Accelerator and Development of a Consensus Reference Beam Model
    Watkins WT, Yang R, Han C, Liu A, Surucu M, Kovalchuk N, Han B, Cai B, Banks TI, Shen C, Lalonde R, Dimitriadou D, Chang J, Huq MS, Forbang RT, Ndlovu AM, Ku L, Maganti S, Chen H, Chen Z, Carlson DJ Medical physics 2025 Dec 52
    An automated daily QA strategy for dosimetry and imaging guidance check of a novel PET/CT ring gantry linac
    Ghimire S, Park YK, Gibbard G, Tan J, Banks TI, Shen C, Prasad R, Zhuang T, Godley A, Jiang SB, Cai B Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2025 Dec 26
    Evaluation of treatment planning feasibility of a positron emission tomography (PET)–Linac system for spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)
    Zhang H, Yan S, Peng H, Banks T, Prasad R, Park YK, Godley A, Cai B, Shen C Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2025 Dec 26
    Strategies for Offline Adaptive Biology-Guided Radiotherapy (BgRT) on a PET-Linac Platform
    Cai B, Banks TI, Shen C, Prasad R, Bal G, Lin MH, Godley A, Pompos A, Garant A, Westover K, Dan T, Jiang S, Sher D, Oz OK, Timmerman R, Badiyan SN Cancers 2025 Aug 17
    A conditional point cloud diffusion model for deformable liver motion tracking via a single arbitrarily-angled x-ray projection
    Xie J, Shao HC, Li Y, Yan S, Shen C, Wang J, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2025 Jun 70
    Expanding SCINTIX Biology-Guided Radiotherapy Beyond Lung and Bone: A Planning Feasibility and Dosimetric Study on the RefleXion X1 System
    Zhang H, Gibbard G, Shen C, Banks TI, Peng H, Da Silva A, Kuduvalli G, Aguilera TA, Dan T, Badiyan SN, Westover K, Sher DJ, Garant A, Hannan R, Jiang SB, Oz OK, Timmerman RD, Cai B Technology in cancer research & treatment 2025 Jan 24 15330338251365334
    Quality assurance for online adaptive radiotherapy: a secondary dose verification model with geometry-encoded U-Net
    Yan S, Maniscalco A, Wang B, Nguyen D, Jiang S, Shen C Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2024 Dec 5
    Soft independence guided filter pruning
    Yang L, Gu S, Shen C, Zhao X, Hu Q Pattern Recognition 2024 Sep 153
    Uncertainty-Aware Aggregation for Federated Open Set Domain Adaptation
    Qin Z, Yang L, Gao F, Hu Q, Shen C IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 2024 Jun 35 7548-7562
    Skeleton Neural Networks via Low-Rank Guided Filter Pruning
    Yang L, Gu S, Shen C, Zhao X, Hu Q IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 2023 Dec 33 7197-7211
  • Honors & Awards
    • AAPM Best in Physics Paper (Therapy)
      (2019)
    • ASTRO Basic/Translational Science Award for Junior Investigator
      Physics Category (2019)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2016)
    • American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2017)
    • Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (2012)