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Benjamin Paul Ziemer, PhD
Assistant Professor Division of Physics
Department of Radiation Oncology
Triple science major, avid sunshine runner, Bill Murray enthusiast, Midwest born but thinks the West Coast is the best coast.
Meet Dr. Ziemer
Dr. Benjamin P. Ziemer received a BS in Chemistry, Math, and Physics from UW Madison. He went on to receive an MS and Ph.D. in Particle Physics from UC Irvine. His doctoral work was on the MINERvA experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory developing the software simulation, specifically the particle tracking and energy reconstruction, and analysis of quasi-elastic final states. Changing career focus to medical physics, he did research on low-dose cardiac perfusion imaging and automated knowledge-based planning for stereotactic radiosurgery during post-doctoral positions at UC Irvine and UC San Diego, respectively. Dr. Benjamin Ziemer desires to bring the concepts of pattern recognition, knowledge-based automation, machine learning, and, in general, highly quantitative/statistical methods to radiation therapy in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce normal tissue complications and reduce both inter-and intra-clinic variations in cancer treatment. He believes in forming strong collaborations both within UCSF, across the UC Health System, and other external institutions to bring strong, dedicated minds together to study the collected vast, differentiated datasets to make progress in any one given individual’s struggle against cancer.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1PWHapdbnRaANC/bibliography/public/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Woxpyz0AAAAJ&hl=en Recent Significant PublicationsVasant Kearney, Benjamin P Ziemer, Alan Perry, Tianqi Wang, Jason W Chan, Lijun Ma, Olivier Morin, Sue S Yom, Timothy D Solberg, Attention-Aware Discrimination for MR-to-CT Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks.Radiology: Artificial Intelligence 2020 2(2):e190027 Robert Kaderka, Robert C Mundt, Nan Li, Benjamin Ziemer, Victoria N Bry, Mariel Cornell, Kevin L Moore, Automated closed-and open-loop validation of knowledge-based planning routines across multiple disease sites. Practical Radiation Oncology 2019 9(4):257-265 Logan Hubbard, Jerry Lipinski, Benjamin Ziemer, Shant Malkasian, Bahman Sadeghi, Hanna Javan, Elliott M Groves, Brian Dertli, Sabee Molloi, Comprehensive assessment of coronary artery disease by using first-pass analysis dynamic CT perfusion: validation in a swine model. Radiology 2018 286(1):93-102 Benjamin P Ziemer, Satomi Shiraishi, Jona A Hattangadi-Gluth, Parag Sanghvi, Kevin Lawrence Moore, Fully automated, comprehensive knowledge-based planning for stereotactic radiosurgery: Preclinical validation through blinded physician review. Practical Radiation Oncology 2017 7(6):569-578 Benjamin P Ziemer, Parag Sanghvi, Jona Hattangadi‐Gluth, Kevin L Moore, Heuristic knowledge‐based planning for single‐isocenter stereotactic radiosurgery to multiple brain metastases. Medical Physics 2017 44(10):5001-5009 Logan Hubbard, Benjamin Ziemer, Jerry Lipinski, Bahman Sadeghi, Hanna Javan, Elliott M Groves, Shant Malkasian, Sabee Molloi, Functional assessment of coronary artery disease using whole-heart dynamic computed tomographic perfusion. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 2016 9(12):e005325 Benjamin P Ziemer, Logan Hubbard, Jerry Lipinski, Sabee Molloi, Dynamic CT perfusion measurement in a cardiac phantom. International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging 2015 31(7):1451-1459 T Walton, M Betancourt,… BP Ziemer, Minerva Collaboration, Measurement of muon plus proton final states in muon neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon at average neutrino energy of 4.2 GeV. Physical Review D 2015 91(7):071301 DD Stancil, P Adamson… BP Ziemer, Minerva Collaboration, Demonstration of communication using neutrinos. Modern Physics Letters A 2012 27(12):1250077 Anne-Marie L Nickel, Fazila Seker, Benjamin P Ziemer, Arthur B Ellis, Imprinted poly (acrylic acid) films on cadmium selenide. A composite sensor structure that couples selective amine binding with semiconductor substrate photoluminescence. Chemistry of Materials 2001 13(4):1391-1397 |