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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

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    • 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
    A dynamic reconstruction and motion estimation framework for cardiorespiratory motion-resolved real-time volumetric MR imaging (DREME-MR)
    Shao H, Qian X, Xu G, Wu C, Otazo R, Deng J, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2025 Sep 70
    Time-resolved dynamic CBCT reconstruction using prior-model-free spatiotemporal Gaussian representation (PMF-STGR)
    Xie J, Shao H, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2025 Aug 70
    Denoising diffusion wavelet models for zero-shot medical image translation
    Li Y, Kong X, Xie J, Ver Steeg G, Zhang Y Knowledge-Based Systems 2025 Aug 324
    Universal mapping and patient-specific prior implicit neural representation for enhanced high-resolution MRI in MRI-guided radiotherapy
    Li Y, Deng J, Zhang Y Medical physics 2025 Jul 52
    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
    A conditional point cloud diffusion model for deformable liver motion tracking via a single arbitrarily-angled x-ray projection
    Xie J, Shao H, Li Y, Yan S, Shen C, Wang J, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2025 Jun 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 Jun 52 4513-4527
    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
    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 Jun 52 4299-4317
    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
  • 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)