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You Zhang, Ph.D.

You Zhang, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Associate Professor

Schools
Medical School | Graduate School
Departments
Radiation Oncology
Graduate Programs
Biomedical Engineering
  • Biography

    • 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
    Segment anything for video: A comprehensive review of video object segmentation and tracking from past to future
    Xu G, Udupa JK, Yu Y, Shao H, Zhao S, Liu W, Zhang Y Neurocomputing 2026 Jun 682
    Exploiting DINOv3-based self-supervised features for robust few-shot medical image segmentation
    Xu G, Udupa JK, Lu W, Zhang Y Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2026 Jun 7
    Mid-range arc therapy for efficient and RBE-robust proton treatment
    Wang Q, Chen M, Zhu Y, Zhao X, Zhang Y, Gu X, Lu W Physics in medicine and biology 2026 May 71
    Iterative Reconstruction for Low-dose X-ray Computed Tomography Using Sub-pixel Anisotropic Diffusion
    Niu S, Tang S, Huang Y, Luo Y, Wang T, Liu H, Wang J, Zhang Y Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation 2026 Mar 45
    Landmark matching and B-spline implicit neural representations for diffusion-weighted imaging distortion correction
    Li Y, Liao YP, Dai Y, Deng J, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2026 Feb 71
    cMeta-INR: cohort-informed meta-learning-based implicit neural representation for deformable registration-driven real-time volumetric MRI estimation
    Qian X, Shao H, Cai J, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2026 Jan 71
    Band-limited implicit neural representations for diffusion-weighted imaging denoising
    Li Y, Dai Y, Liao YP, Deng J, Zhang Y Physics in medicine and biology 2026 Jan 71
    Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Radiation Oncology
    Nguyen D, Yang D, Shen C, Wang J, Chen L, Zhang Y, Deng J, Chen M, Lu W, Dohopolski M, Sher D, Jiang S 2026 Jan 168-182.e3
    AI-driven image-guided radiation therapy
    Li Y, Xie J, Zhang Y 2026 Jan 129-163
    A universal medical imaging modality translation model in brain and head-and-neck radiotherapy
    Li Y, Liang X, Xie J, Deng J, Lu W, Zhang Y Radiotherapy and Oncology 2026 Jan 214
  • 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

    Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Radiation Oncology. In Gunderson and Tepper Clinical Radiation Oncology

    D Nguyen, D Yang, C Shen, J Wang, L Chen, Y Zhang, J Deng, M Chen, W Lu, M Dohopolski, D Sher, S Jiang (2026). Elsevier

    3D printed phantoms in RT. In 3D Printing in Radiation Oncology: A Handbook

    T Chiu, D Parsons, Z Xiong, R Reynolds, Y Zhang (2024). Taylor & Francis

    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)