X. Allen Li, PhD, DABMP, FAAPM

Professor and Chief, Medical Physics

Locations

Radiation Oncology

Contact Information

Education

PhD, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1992
MS, Electron Optics and Electron Microscopy, Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 1986
BS, Electron Physics, Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 1983

Biography

Training

Clinical Physics Resident, Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Canada (1993-1994)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ionizing Radiation, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada (1992-1993)

Certifications

Medical Physics-Radiation Oncology Physics, American Board of Medical Physicists (2001)

Medical Physics-Radiation Oncology Physics, Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (1994)

Leadership Positions

Chief of Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology

Research Interests

Adaptive radiation therapy
Biological modeling for radiation treatment planning
Anatomical/biological/functional imaging guided radiotherapy planning and delivery
Monte Carlo application to radiotherapy dosimetry

Predicting Treatment Response From Extracellular Volume Fraction for Chemoradiation Therapy of Pancreatic Cancer.

(Noid G, Godfrey G, Hall W, Shah J, Paulson E, Knechtges P, Erickson B, Allen Li X.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Mar 01;115(3):803-808 PMID: 36210026 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85143525839 10/10/2022
Auto-detection of necessity for MRI-guided online adaptive replanning using a machine learning classifier.

(Parchur AK, Lim S, Nasief HG, Omari EA, Zhang Y, Paulson ES, Hall WA, Erickson B, Li XA.) Med Phys. 2023 Jan;50(1):440-448 PMID: 36227732 PMCID: PMC9868055 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85140247594 10/14/2022
Incorporating uncertainty bounds in daily deformable dose accumulation for adaptive radiation therapy of head-and-neck cancer.

(García-Alvarez JA, Zhong H, Schultz CJ, Li XA, Kainz K.) Med Phys. 2022 Nov 08 PMID: 36346034 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85142299603 11/09/2022
Predicting necessity of daily online adaptive replanning based on wavelet image features for MRI guided adaptive radiation therapy.

(Nasief HG, Parchur AK, Omari E, Zhang Y, Chen X, Paulson E, Hall WA, Erickson B, Li XA.) Radiother Oncol. 2022 Nov;176:165-171 PMID: 36216299 PMCID: PMC9838213 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85140068136 10/11/2022
Deep Learning-Based Automatic Detection of Brain Metastases in Heterogenous Multi-Institutional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sets: An Exploratory Analysis of NRG-CC001.

(Liang Y, Lee K, Bovi JA, Palmer JD, Brown PD, Gondi V, Tomé WA, Benzinger TLS, Mehta MP, Li XA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2022 Nov 01;114(3):529-536 PMID: 35787927 PMCID: PMC9641965 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85136651527 07/06/2022
A Prior Knowledge-Guided, Deep Learning-Based Semiautomatic Segmentation for Complex Anatomy on Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

(Zhang Y, Liang Y, Ding J, Amjad A, Paulson E, Ahunbay E, Hall WA, Erickson B, Li XA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2022 Oct 01;114(2):349-359 PMID: 35667525 PMCID: PMC9639200 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85136545309 06/07/2022
Development and implementation of an automatic air delineation technique for MRI-guided adaptive radiation therapy.

(Ahunbay E, Parchur AK, Paulson E, Chen X, Omari E, Li XA.) Phys Med Biol. 2022 Jul 12;67(14) PMID: 35732168 PMCID: PMC9639194 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85134474387 06/23/2022
Multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging for radiation treatment planning.

(Omari EA, Zhang Y, Ahunbay E, Paulson E, Amjad A, Chen X, Liang Y, Li XA.) Med Phys. 2022 Apr;49(4):2836-2845 PMID: 35170769 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85125520169 02/17/2022
General and custom deep learning autosegmentation models for organs in head and neck, abdomen, and male pelvis.

(Amjad A, Xu J, Thill D, Lawton C, Hall W, Awan MJ, Shukla M, Erickson BA, Li XA.) Med Phys. 2022 Mar;49(3):1686-1700 PMID: 35094390 PMCID: PMC8917093 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85124464974 01/31/2022
Automatic Contour Refinement for Deep Learning Auto-segmentation of Complex Organs in MRI-guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy.

(Ding J, Zhang Y, Amjad A, Xu J, Thill D, Li XA.) Adv Radiat Oncol. 2022;7(5):100968 PMID: 35847549 PMCID: PMC9280040 07/19/2022
Use of a DVH overlay technique for quality assurance of deformable image registration-based dose accumulation.

(Kainz K, Garcia Alvarez J, Zhong H, Lim S, Ahunbay E, Tai A, Erickson B, Lawton C, Li XA.) Med Phys. 2022 Jan;49(1):611-623 PMID: 34826153 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120889771 11/27/2021
Magnetic resonance linear accelerator technology and adaptive radiation therapy: An overview for clinicians.

(Hall WA, Paulson E, Li XA, Erickson B, Schultz C, Tree A, Awan M, Low DA, McDonald BA, Salzillo T, Glide-Hurst CK, Kishan AU, Fuller CD.) CA Cancer J Clin. 2022 Jan;72(1):34-56 PMID: 34792808 PMCID: PMC8985054 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85119184109 11/19/2021