Yesenia Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Yesenia Gonzalez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas A&M University, followed by her Ph.D. at UT Southwestern Medical Center. After completing her medical physics residency in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern, she stayed on as faculty in the Division of Medical Physics and Engineering.

Dr. Gonzalez's clinical focus is on Unity, EROC TPOD, and brachytherapy; her research interests include adaptive radiotherapy and deep learning for medical applications.

• Adaptive radiotherapy
• Deep learning for medical applications

ART2Dose: A comprehensive dose verification platform for online adaptive radiotherapy

Lin J, Chen M, Lai Y, Trivedi Z, Wu J, Foo T, Gonzalez Y, Reynolds Jr. RR, Park C, Yan Y, Godley A, Jiang S, Jia X, Lin MH, Pompos A, Lu W Medical physics 2024 Jan 51 18-30

Considerations for intensity modulated total body or total marrow and lymphoid irradiation

Parsons D, Lim TY, Teruel JR, Galavis P, Agostinelli S, Liang J, Mancosu P, Cherpak A, Stanley DN, Ahn KH, Guo B, Gonzalez Y, Burmeister J, Wong JY, Gu X, Kim GG Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology 2023 Nov 43

Clinical experience on patient-specific quality assurance for CBCT-based online adaptive treatment plan

Shen C, Chen L, Zhong X, Gonzalez Y, Visak J, Meng B, Inam E, Parsons D, Godley A, Jiang S, Cai B, Lin MH Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 Apr 24

MR image reconstruction from undersampled data for image-guided radiation therapy using a patient-specific deep manifold image prior

Grandinetti J, Gao Y, Gonzalez Y, Deng J, Shen C, Jia X Frontiers in Oncology 2022 Nov 12

Modeling physician's preference in treatment plan approval of stereotactic body radiation therapy of prostate cancer

Gao Y, Shen C, Gonzalez Y, Jia X Physics in medicine and biology 2022 Jun 67

Change in image-guided planning strategies over time impacts oncologic and survival outcomes for intracavitary cervical cancer brachytherapy

D'Cunha P, Gonzalez Y, Nwachukwu C, Hrycushko B, Medin P, Owrangi A, Jia X, Albuquerque K Brachytherapy 2022

A deep learning-based framework for segmenting invisible clinical target volumes with estimated uncertainties for post-operative prostate cancer radiotherapy

Balagopal A, Nguyen D, Morgan H, Weng Y, Dohopolski M, Lin MH, Barkousaraie AS, Gonzalez Y, Garant A, Desai N, Hannan R, Jiang S Medical Image Analysis 2021 Aug 72

Improving efficiency of training a virtual treatment planner network via knowledge-guided deep reinforcement learning for intelligent automatic treatment planning of radiotherapy

Shen C, Chen L, Gonzalez Y, Jia X Medical physics 2021 Apr 48 1909-1920

Simultaneous needle catheter selection and dwell time optimization for preplanning of high-dose-rate brachytherapy of prostate cancer

Wang C, Gonzalez Y, Shen C, Hrycushko B, Jia X Physics in medicine and biology 2021 Mar 66

Semi-automatic sigmoid colon segmentation in CT for radiation therapy treatment planning via an iterative 2.5-D deep learning approach

Gonzalez Y, Shen C, Jung H, Nguyen D, Jiang SB, Albuquerque K, Jia X Medical Image Analysis 2021 Feb 68

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2017)
• American Society for Radiation Oncology (2020)