Shanshan Tang, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Radiation Oncology Biography Shanshan Tang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and faculty in the Department’s Division of Medical Physics & Engineering. Dr. Tang earned her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China and followed with the completion of her Ph.D. in biophysics at the same university. Dr. Tang began her career at UT Southwestern as an Instructor in the Department of Radiation Oncology prior to completing her medical physics radiation oncology residency training within the same Department. Dr. Tang brings a strong background in medical imaging and clinical outcomes research. Her Ph.D. and postdoctoral research focused on ultrasound imaging and dosimetry, including the development of ultrasound microvessel imaging and radiation-induced acoustics for imaging and dosimetry applications. More recently at UT Southwestern, her research has expanded to predictive modeling of recurrence-free survival following radiation therapy and the development and clinical implementation of CBCT-guided direct-to-unit adaptive radiotherapy for breast cancer. Dr. Tang has authored and co-authored several publications in radiation oncology, medical physics, and biomedical imaging. Her work has addressed artificial intelligence-enabled and MR-guided radiotherapy, radiomics-based outcome prediction, brachytherapy treatment quality, and radiation treatment optimization. In addition, she has contributed to numerous studies involving ultrasound, photoacoustic imaging, elastography, and quantitative imaging technologies for disease assessment and clinical decision-making. Research Interest Development and clinical implementation of CBCT-guided direct-to-unit adaptive radiotherapy Development of ultrasound microvessel imaging Predictive modeling of recurrence-free survival following radiation therapy Radiation-induced acoustics for imaging and dosimetry applications Publications Recurrence-free survival prediction for anal squamous cell carcinoma after chemoradiotherapy using planning CT-based radiomics model Tang S, Wang K, Hein D, Lin G, Sanford NN, Wang J British Journal of Radiology 2025 Feb 98 296-304 Progression-Free Survival Prediction for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer After Chemoradiotherapy With MRI-based Radiomics Tang S, Yen A, Wang K, Albuquerque K, Wang J Clinical Oncology 2025 Feb 38 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 Medical Image Classification Using Self-Supervised Learning-Based Masked Autoencoder Fan Z, Wang Z, Gong P, Lee CU, Tang S, Zhang X, Hao Y, Zhang Z, Song P, Chen S, Li H 2024 Joint localization and classification of breast masses on ultrasound images using an auxiliary attention-based framework Fan Z, Gong P, Tang S, Lee CU, Zhang X, Song P, Chen S, Li H Medical Image Analysis 2023 Dec 90 Technical note: Exploring the detectability of coronary calcification using ultra-high-resolution photon-counting-detector CT Chang S, Ren L, Tang S, Marsh JF, Hsieh S, McCollough CH, Leng S Medical physics 2023 Nov 50 6836-6843 High-fidelity deep functional photoacoustic tomography enhanced by virtual point sources Tang Y, Tang S, Huang C, Klippel P, Ma C, Caso N, Chen S, Jing Y, Yao J Photoacoustics 2023 Feb 29 Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Localization Microscopy with Bipartite Graph-Based Microbubble Pairing and Kalman-Filtering-Based Tracking on a 256-Channel Verasonics Ultrasound System with a 32 × 32 Matrix Array Lok UW, Huang C, Trzasko JD, Kim Y, Lucien F, Tang S, Gong P, Song P, Chen S Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering 2022 Dec 42 767-779 Improved Ultrasound Attenuation Estimation with Non-uniform Structure Detection and Removal Gong P, Huang C, Lok UW, Tang S, Ling W, Zhou C, Yang L, Watt KD, Callstrom M, Chen S Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 2022 Nov 48 2292-2301 Adaptive and Robust Vessel Quantification in Contrast-Free Ultrafast Ultrasound Microvessel Imaging Tang S, Huang C, Gong P, Lok UW, Zhou C, Yang L, Knoll KM, Robinson KA, Sheedy SP, Fletcher JG, Bruining DH, Knudsen JM, Chen S Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 2022 Oct 48 2095-2109 Results 1-10 of 46 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Honors & Awards Brian Moran LDR Prostate Brachytherapy Scholarship (2025) Best Poster Award, Southwest Regional Chapter of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (SWAAPM) (2023) Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research Prize (2015)
