OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Medical Physics is 40. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward data‐efficient learning: A benchmark for COVID‐19 CT lung and infection segmentation	163
Abnormal lung quantification in chest CT images of COVID‐19 patients with deep learning and its application to severity prediction	147
Deep learning based synthetic‐CT generation in radiotherapy and PET: A review	117
Low‐dose CT image and projection dataset	112
Report on G4‐Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group	103
A framework for defining FLASH dose rate for pencil beam scanning	96
Does FLASH deplete oxygen? Experimental evaluation for photons, protons, and carbon ions	94
Ultra‐high dose rate dosimetry: Challenges and opportunities for FLASH radiation therapy	94
Radiobiology of the FLASH effect	92
Ultra‐high dose rate electron beams and the FLASH effect: From preclinical evidence to a new radiotherapy paradigm	86
AAPM task group report 302: Surface‐guided radiotherapy	79
Breast tumor segmentation in 3D automatic breast ultrasound using Mask scoring R‐CNN	76
Improving CBCT quality to CT level using deep learning with generative adversarial network	75
AAPM Task Group 198 Report: An implementation guide for TG 142 quality assurance of medical accelerators	75
Task group 284 report: magnetic resonance imaging simulation in radiotherapy: considerations for clinical implementation, optimization, and quality assurance	73
Commissioning of an ultra‐high dose rate pulsed electron beam medical LINAC for FLASH RT preclinical animal experiments and future clinical human protocols	67
Technical Note: SpekPy v2.0—a software toolkit for modeling x‐ray tube spectra	66
Report of AAPM Task Group 155: Megavoltage photon beam dosimetry in small fields and non‐equilibrium conditions	65
A review of explainable and interpretable AI with applications in COVID‐19 imaging	65
Vision Transformer‐based recognition of diabetic retinopathy grade	60
Machine QA for the Elekta Unity system: A Report from the Elekta MR‐linac consortium	58
Technical Note: Dose prediction for head and neck radiotherapy using a three‐dimensional dense dilated U‐net architecture	56
Report of AAPM Task Group 219 on independent calculation‐based dose/MU verification for IMRT	56
Treatment response prediction using MRI‐based pre‐, post‐, and delta‐radiomic features and machine learning algorithms in colorectal cancer	55
OpenKBP: The open‐access knowledge‐based planning grand challenge and dataset	55

Simultaneous dose and dose rate optimization (SDDRO) for FLASH proton therapy	55
Real‐time biomechanics using the finite element method and machine learning: Review and perspective	54
The current status of preclinical proton FLASH radiation and future directions	54
A deep learning system for automated kidney stone detection and volumetric segmentation on noncontrast CT scans	53
FLASH radiotherapy with carbon ion beams	52
AAPM Task Group 264: The safe clinical implementation of MLC tracking in radiotherapy	50
Spread‐out Bragg peak proton FLASH irradiation using a clinical synchrocyclotron: Proof of concept and ion chamber characterization	46
AAPM Task Group Report 290: Respiratory motion management for particle therapy	45
Oxygen depletion in FLASH ultra‐high‐dose‐rate radiotherapy: A molecular dynamics simulation	44
Model studies of the role of oxygen in the FLASH effect	44
FLASH radiotherapy with photon beams	43
Design, realization, and characterization of a novel diamond detector prototype for FLASH radiotherapy dosimetry	42
Ion collection efficiency of ionization chambers in ultra‐high dose‐per‐pulse electron beams	42
Development of an ultra‐thin parallel plate ionization chamber for dosimetry in FLASH radiotherapy	41
Spatial feature fusion convolutional network for liver and liver tumor segmentation from CT images	41
PA‐ResSeg: A phase attention residual network for liver tumor segmentation from multiphase CT images	40
Commissioning of a clinical pencil beam scanning proton therapy unit for ultra‐high dose rates (FLASH)	40