Michael Dohopolski, M.D. - Faculty Profile

Biography

Michael Dohopolski, M.D., Assistant Professor, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Following that, he did an internship in preliminary medicine at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix. Dr. Dohopolski did his residency in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern where he is now part of the central nervous system disease-oriented team.

Dr. Dohopolski is the recipient of several honors and awards including the RSNA Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award, Dean’s Scholar in Clinical Research Program, and Holman Research Pathway.

Education

Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (2018)
Internship: Banner University Medical Center Phoenix (2019), Medical Education
Residency: University of Texas Medical Center at Dallas (2023), Radiation Oncology

Publications

Deep unsupervised clustering for prostate auto-segmentation with and without hydrogel spacer: Zhao H, Wang B, Dohopolski M, Bai T, Jiang S, Nguyen D Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2025 Mar 6
Gradient-Based Radiomics for Outcome Prediction and Decision-Making in PULSAR: A Preliminary Study: Zhang H, Liu J, Dohopolski M, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Peng H International Journal of Particle Therapy 2025 Mar 15
TransAnaNet: Transformer-based anatomy change prediction network for head and neck cancer radiotherapy: Chen M, Wang K, Dohopolski M, Morgan H, Sher D, Wang J Medical physics 2025
Closing the gap in plan quality: Leveraging deep-learning dose prediction for adaptive radiotherapy: Domal SJ, Maniscalco A, Visak J, Dohopolski M, Moon D, Avkshtol V, Nguyen D, Jiang SB, Sher D, Lin M Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2025
Artificial intelligence uncertainty quantification in radiotherapy applications − A scoping review: Wahid KA, Kaffey ZY, Farris DP, Humbert-Vidan L, Moreno AC, Rasmussen M, Ren J, Naser MA, Netherton TJ, Korreman S, Balakrishnan G, Fuller CD, Fuentes D, Dohopolski MJ Radiotherapy and Oncology 2024 Dec 201
Multiomics-Based Outcome Prediction in Personalized Ultra-Fractionated Stereotactic Adaptive Radiotherapy (PULSAR): Zhang H, Dohopolski M, Stojadinovic S, Schmitt LG, Anand S, Kim H, Pompos A, Godley A, Jiang S, Dan T, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Peng H Cancers 2024 Oct 16
Adrenal Insufficiency following Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SAbR) of Adrenal Gland Metastases: Hamidi O, Miljanic M, Tumyan G, Christie A, Mirfakhraee S, Ali S, Dohopolski M, Gottumukkala S, Brugarolas J, Timmerman R, Hannan R Cancers 2024 Sep 16
In silico evaluation and feasibility of near margin-less head and neck daily adaptive radiotherapy: Dohopolski M, Visak J, Choi B, Meng B, Parsons D, Zhong X, Inam E, Avkshtol V, Moon D, Sher D, Lin MH Radiotherapy and Oncology 2024 Aug 197
Progressive auto-segmentation for cone-beam computed tomography-based online adaptive radiotherapy: Zhao H, Liang X, Meng B, Dohopolski M, Choi B, Cai B, Lin MH, Bai T, Nguyen D, Jiang S Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2024 Jul 31
Performance deterioration of deep learning models after clinical deployment: a case study with auto-segmentation for definitive prostate cancer radiotherapy: Wang B, Dohopolski M, Bai T, Wu J, Hannan R, Desai N, Garant A, Yang D, Nguyen D, Lin MH, Timmerman R, Wang X, Jiang SB Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2024 Jun 5

Honors & Awards

Dean’s Scholar in Clinical Research Program
(2023)
RSNA Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award
(2023)
ECOG-ACRIN Spring 2022 Group Meeting Travel Award
(2022)
Radiology: Artificial Intelligence Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction
(2022)
Holman Research Pathway
(2020-2022)
UPSOM Radiation Oncology Research Award
(2018)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2018)
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (2021)
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) (2020)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society (2011)