Liyuan Chen, Ph.D. 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 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 Results 1-10 of 34 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)