Liyuan Chen, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Radiation Oncology Biography 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. Research Interest Inverse treatment planning Medical image processing: denoising, deblurring, segmentation, classification, and registration Medical image reconstruction Treatment outcome prediction Publications Impact of daily adaptive head and neck radiotherapy on toxicity and quality of life: Results of the DARTBOARD phase II randomized trial Sher DJ, Avkshtol V, Lin M, Wang J, Chen L, Liao CY, Hughes RS, Domal S, Ahn CW, Moon DH Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2025 Dec 117 2488-2494 Dosimetric Advantages of Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Results From a Prospective Registry Study Shi JJ, Meduri K, Liao CY, Moon DH, Avkshtol V, Parsons D, Zhong X, Chen L, Lin MH, Sher DJ International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2025 Jul 122 917-925 Assessment of cardiac radiation dose in the Co-60 prone-based stereotactic partial breast irradiation using distance metrics Kwon YS, Parsons DD, Arbab M, Wandrey N, Yarlagadda P, Stojadinovic S, Lu W, Alluri P, Li XD, Chiu T, Lin M, Chen L, Kim DW, Gonzalez YA, Gu X, Zhang Y, Timmerman R, Rahimi AS Frontiers in Oncology 2025 15 Early Detection of Residual/Recurrent Lung Malignancies on Post-Radiation FDG PET/CT Chen L, Lowe A, Wang J Algorithms 2024 Oct 17 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 Results 1-10 of 38 1 2 3 4 Next Last Honors & Awards Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling Meritorious Winner (2011) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2021) American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2021)
