Liyuan Chen, Ph.D.

Liyuan Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, earned her doctorate degree from Hong Kong Baptist University. After graduation, she started a postdoctoral research fellow position at UT Southwestern Medical Center, followed by completion of her clinical training in UT Southwestern’s Medical Physics Residency Program where she served as chief resident during her second year.

Dr. Chen's research interests include medical image reconstruction and processing, inverse treatment planning, and treatment outcome prediction.

• Inverse treatment planning
• Medical image processing: denoising, deblurring, segmentation, classification, and registration
• Medical image reconstruction
• Treatment outcome prediction

Zero-Shot Medical Image Translation via Frequency-Guided Diffusion Models

Li Y, Shao HC, Liang X, Chen L, Li R, Jiang S, Wang J, Zhang Y IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2024 Mar 43 980-993

Joint Vestibular Schwannoma Enlargement Prediction and Segmentation Using a Deep Multi-task Model

Wang K, George-Jones NA, Chen L, Hunter JB, Wang J Laryngoscope 2023 Oct 133 2754-2760

Efficacy and Quality-of-Life Following Involved Nodal Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: The INRT-AIR Phase II Clinical Trial

Sher DJ, Moon DH, Vo D, Wang J, Chen L, Dohopolski M, Hughes R, Sumer BD, Ahn C, Avkshtol V Clinical Cancer Research 2023 Sep 29 3284-3291

ARMO: automated and reliable multi-objective model for lymph node metastasis prediction in head and neck cancer

Zhou Z, Chen L, Dohopolski M, Sher D, Wang J Physics in medicine and biology 2023 May 68

Clinical experience on patient-specific quality assurance for CBCT-based online adaptive treatment plan

Shen C, Chen L, Zhong X, Gonzalez Y, Visak J, Meng B, Inam E, Parsons D, Godley A, Jiang S, Cai B, Lin MH Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 Apr 24

Case study: Lymph node malignancy classification for head and neck cancer radiation therapy

Wang J, Chen L, Dohopolski M, Sher D 2023 Jan 401-423

Attention Guided Lymph Node Malignancy Prediction in Head and Neck Cancer

Chen L, Dohopolski M, Zhou Z, Wang K, Wang R, Sher D, Wang J International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2021 Jul 110 1171-1179

A hierarchical deep reinforcement learning framework for intelligent automatic treatment planning of prostate cancer intensity modulated radiation therapy

Shen C, Chen L, Jia X Physics in medicine and biology 2021 Jul 66

Synthetic CT generation from CBCT images via unsupervised deep learning

Chen L, Liang X, Shen C, Nguyen D, Jiang S, Wang J Physics in medicine and biology 2021 Jun 66

Improving efficiency of training a virtual treatment planner network via knowledge-guided deep reinforcement learning for intelligent automatic treatment planning of radiotherapy

Shen C, Chen L, Gonzalez Y, Jia X Medical physics 2021 Apr 48 1909-1920

• Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling – Meritorious Winner
  (2011)

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2021)
• American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2021)