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You Zhang, Ph.D.

You Zhang, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Associate Professor

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

    Download Curriculum Vitae

    • Therapeutic Physics Residency, UT Southwestern Medical Center (2018)
    • Ph.D., Duke University, Medical Physics (2015) 
    • B.S., Nanjing University, Physics (2010)

  • Education
    Graduate School
    Duke University (2015), Philosophy
  • Research Interest
    • 3D/4D CT/CBCT reconstruction and analysis
    • 4D MRI reconstruction
    • Artificial intelligence and automation in radiation therapy
    • Biomechanical modeling and finite element analysis
    • Deformable registration and its application in image-guided radiation therapy
    • Radiotherapy dose calculation and plan optimization
    • Real-time volumetric imaging
  • Publications
    FDDM: unsupervised medical image translation with a frequency-decoupled diffusion model
    Li Y, Shao HC, Qian X, Zhang Y Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2025 Jun 6
    Internal Target Volume Estimation for Liver Cancer Radiation Therapy Using an Ultra Quality 4-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    Liao YP, Xiao H, Wang P, Li T, Aguilera TA, Visak JD, Godley AR, Zhang Y, Cai J, Deng J Advances in Radiation Oncology 2025 Jun 10
    Patient-specific MRI super-resolution via implicit neural representations and knowledge transfer
    Li Y, Liao YP, Wang J, Lu W, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2025 Apr 70
    Plug-and-play segment anything model improves nnUNet performance
    Li Y, Jing B, Li Z, Wang J, Zhang Y Medical physics 2025 Feb 52 899-912
    Real-time CBCT imaging and motion tracking via a single arbitrarily-angled x-ray projection by a joint dynamic reconstruction and motion estimation (DREME) framework
    Shao HC, Mengke T, Pan T, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2025 Jan 70
    A segment anything model-guided and match-based semi-supervised segmentation framework for medical imaging
    Xu G, Qian X, Shao HC, Luo J, Lu W, Zhang Y Medical physics 2025
    Histogram matching-enhanced adversarial learning for unsupervised domain adaptation in medical image segmentation
    Qian X, Shao HC, Li Y, Lu W, Zhang Y Medical physics 2025
    SAMScore: A Content Structural Similarity Metric for Image Translation Evaluation
    Li Y, Chen M, Wang K, Ma J, Bovik AC, Zhang Y IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence 2025
    Adaptive wavelet-VNet for single-sample test time adaptation in medical image segmentation
    Qian X, Lu W, Zhang Y Medical physics 2024 Dec 51 8865-8881
    Prediction of pathological complete response to chemotherapy for breast cancer using deep neural network with uncertainty quantification
    Jing B, Wang K, Schmitz E, Tang S, Li Y, Zhang Y, Wang J Medical physics 2024 Dec 51 9385-9393
  • Books

    Featured 

    Combined kV/MV imaging and tomosynthesis. In Handbook of 2018 AAPM Summer School: Image Guidance in Radiation Therapy: Techniques, Accuracy, and Limitations

    L. Ren, Y. Zhang (2018). Medical Physics Publishing

    Kilovoltage and megavoltage x-ray imaging in radiotherapy. In Handbook of X-ray Imaging: Physics and Technology

    Y. Zhang, J. Wang (2017). Taylor & Francis

  • Honors & Awards
    • ASTRO Travel Award
      (2022-2022)
    • AAPM Summer School Scholarship
      (2019-2019)
    • AAPM Science Council Associates Mentorship Program
      (2018-2019)
    • AAPM John R. Cameron Young Investigator Competition Finalists
      (2016-2016)
    • ASTRO Basic/Translational Science Abstract Award
      (2016-2016)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • AAPM (2011)
    • AAPM Southwest Chapter (2016)
    • ASTRO (2020)
    • IEEE (2020)
    • ISMRM (2020)
    • MICCAI (2020)