To reduce reliance on labor-intensive voxel-wise tumor masks by training CT segmentation models directly from routine radiology and pathology reports, enabling scalable detection and localization of tumors relevant to radiotherapy planning and incidental find...
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Kai Ding, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
To provide a large, diverse, and quality-controlled abdominal CT dataset with pancreas- and tumor-centric voxel-wise annotations to support benchmarking and development of AI models for pancreatic target segmentation and anatomy-aware evaluation relevant to r...
To create a large, quality-controlled abdominal CT atlas that enables radiotherapy auto-contouring research by providing standardized, voxel-wise annotations across diverse institutions and by supporting uncertainty-aware expert review and benchmarking.
Tumor-treating-fields (TTFields) therapy uses alternating electric fields delivered via transducer arrays placed regionally close to the tumor site to non-invasively inhibit tumor growth. Although important insights into the mechanisms underlying the anticanc...
While PET-CT imaging holds promise for simulation-free radiotherapy workflows, its inherent image resolution limits its use for accurate tumor and organ-at-risk (OAR) contouring. This study aims to enhance the spatial resolution of PET-CT by leveraging a reso...
To test whether commonly used pixel-wise CT reconstruction metrics reflect preservation of clinically relevant anatomy for radiotherapy imaging, and to develop an anatomy-centered, task-based evaluation and enhancement approach for sparse-view reconstruction.
To test whether a physics-informed “time-machine” tumor synthesis pipeline can generate realistic small pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) targets on contrast-enhanced CT for training and stress-testing AI models intended to support CT-based target delin...
To develop and validate an AI system that supports radiotherapy-relevant pancreatic target delineation by localizing and segmenting small pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and related anatomy on routine contrast-enhanced CT, and to benchmark performance...