OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Medical Physics is 42. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Report of AAPM Task Group 235 Radiochromic Film Dosimetry: An Update to TG‐55	173
Toward data‐efficient learning: A benchmark for COVID‐19 CT lung and infection segmentation	151
Abnormal lung quantification in chest CT images of COVID‐19 patients with deep learning and its application to severity prediction	141
Noise and spatial resolution properties of a commercially available deep learning‐based CT reconstruction algorithm	113
Deep learning based synthetic‐CT generation in radiotherapy and PET: A review	104
Report on G4‐Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group	100
Low‐dose CT image and projection dataset	97
Auto‐segmentation of organs at risk for head and neck radiotherapy planning: From atlas‐based to deep learning methods	91
A framework for defining FLASH dose rate for pencil beam scanning	90
Does FLASH deplete oxygen? Experimental evaluation for photons, protons, and carbon ions	89
Radiobiology of the FLASH effect	82
Ultra‐high dose rate electron beams and the FLASH effect: From preclinical evidence to a new radiotherapy paradigm	77
Ultra‐high dose rate dosimetry: Challenges and opportunities for FLASH radiation therapy	74
A new deep convolutional neural network design with efficient learning capability: Application to CT image synthesis from MRI	74
AAPM task group report 302: Surface‐guided radiotherapy	74
Task group 284 report: magnetic resonance imaging simulation in radiotherapy: considerations for clinical implementation, optimization, and quality assurance	72
Breast tumor segmentation in 3D automatic breast ultrasound using Mask scoring R‐CNN	71
Improving CBCT quality to CT level using deep learning with generative adversarial network	66
AAPM Task Group 198 Report: An implementation guide for TG 142 quality assurance of medical accelerators	66
Report of AAPM Task Group 155: Megavoltage photon beam dosimetry in small fields and non‐equilibrium conditions	60
Commissioning of an ultra‐high dose rate pulsed electron beam medical LINAC for FLASH RT preclinical animal experiments and future clinical human protocols	60
A review of explainable and interpretable AI with applications in COVID‐19 imaging	60
Fully automated multiorgan segmentation in abdominal magnetic resonance imaging with deep neural networks	55
Technical Note: SpekPy v2.0—a software toolkit for modeling x‐ray tube spectra	55
Vision Transformer‐based recognition of diabetic retinopathy grade	54

Machine QA for the Elekta Unity system: A Report from the Elekta MR‐linac consortium	54
Report of AAPM Task Group 219 on independent calculation‐based dose/MU verification for IMRT	53
Treatment response prediction using MRI‐based pre‐, post‐, and delta‐radiomic features and machine learning algorithms in colorectal cancer	53
A deep learning system for automated kidney stone detection and volumetric segmentation on noncontrast CT scans	50
Simultaneous dose and dose rate optimization (SDDRO) for FLASH proton therapy	50
Repeatability of radiomic features in magnetic resonance imaging of glioblastoma: Test–retest and image registration analyses	50
Technical Note: Dose prediction for head and neck radiotherapy using a three‐dimensional dense dilated U‐net architecture	50
AAPM Task Group 264: The safe clinical implementation of MLC tracking in radiotherapy	47
FLASH radiotherapy with carbon ion beams	47
Real‐time biomechanics using the finite element method and machine learning: Review and perspective	47
The current status of preclinical proton FLASH radiation and future directions	46
OpenKBP: The open‐access knowledge‐based planning grand challenge and dataset	46
Comparison of CBCT‐based dose calculation methods in head and neck cancer radiotherapy: from Hounsfield unit to density calibration curve to deep learning	46
Deep model with Siamese network for viable and necrotic tumor regions assessment in osteosarcoma	45
Automatic contouring system for cervical cancer using convolutional neural networks	43
Multimodal MRI synthesis using unified generative adversarial networks	42
Spread‐out Bragg peak proton FLASH irradiation using a clinical synchrocyclotron: Proof of concept and ion chamber characterization	42