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Evan Porter

Evan Porter, PhD

Education

Education

  • Residency in Therapeutic Medical Physics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA (2022-2024)
  • Ph.D. in Medical Physics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit MI (2022)
  • B.A. in Physics, Grinnell College, Grinnell IA (2017)

Awards & Honors 

  • Early Career Investigator Innovation Award, 2021 AAPM Practical Big Data Workshop

Selected Publications, Abstracts and Posters

Publications

  • Porter E, Myziuk N, Quinn T, et al. Synthetic Pulmonary Perfusion Images from 4DCT for Functional Avoidance using Deep Learning. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 2021;66(17):1750‐55.

  • Porter E, Fuentes P, Siddiqui ZA, et al. Hippocampus Segmentation on Noncontrast CT using Deep Learning. Medical Physics . 2020;47(7):2950‐61.

  • Yin R, Foiles D, Nazarov O, Porter E, Hasagawa K. Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy for the Detection of Microtubule Nucleation. Biophysical Journal. 2020;118(3):471a.

  • Hasagawa K, Porter E, Nazarov O. Analysis of Homogeneous Layer Approximations in the Modeling of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors. Appl Opt, AO. 2019;58(24):6519‐27.

  • Hasagawa K, Nazarov O, Porter E. LSPR Biosensing Approach for the Detection of Microtubule Nucleation. Sensors (Basel) . 2019;19(6).

  • Porter E, Guerrero T, et al. Gamma Knife MR/CT/RTSTRUCT Sets with Hippocampal Contours. The Cancer Imaging Archive. 2022.

  • Porter E, Solis D, Bruckmeier P, et al. Effect of Loss Functions in Deep Learning‐Based Segmentation. Auto‐ Segmentation for Radiation Oncology . CRC Press. 2021;133‐150

Abstracts

  • Liang J, Porter E, et al. Tracking Diaphragm Motion on During‐Treatment Cone Beam Projection Images Using Normalizer‐ Free ResNet50. Medical Physics. To be presented at AAPM 2022.

  • Mumaw D, Porter E, et al. Deep Learning for Contour Quality Assurance on RTOG 0933. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics . To be presented at ASTRO 2022.

  • Myziuk N, Porter E, Snyder M. DNA‐scale dose deposition surrounding heavy‐metal nanoparticles irradiated with a monoenergetic kilovoltage‐energy beam. Medical Physics . 2021;48(6).

  • Lozano D, Porter E, Guerrero T. Deriving Pulmonary Perfusion Images from 4DCT using Deep Learning. Journal of Thoracic Oncology .2021;16(3):S137.

  • Salari K, Porter E, Levitin L, et al. Validation of Deep‐Learning Based Auto‐segmentation of the Lens, Optic Nerves, and Chiasm for Stereotactic Radiosurgery. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics . 2020;108(3):e784‐ 5.

  • Grzywacz V, Levitin R, Porter E, et al. Analysis of Parotid and Lacrimal Gland Radiation Dose in Hippocampal‐Avoiding Whole Brain Radiotherapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics . 2020;108(3):e368‐9.

  • Thompson A, Siddiqui ZA, Porter E, Guerrero TM. A Novel Deep Learning Architecture for Deformable Image Registration Applied to Image‐Guided Radiotherapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics . 2019;105(1):e129.

  • Thompson A, Siddiqui ZA, Porter E, et al . DVH Analysis: A Custom, Scalable Software Platform Designed for Flexible Dosimetric Quantitative Evaluation. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics . 2019;105(1):S199.

  • Porter E, Fuentes P, Siddiqui ZA, et al . Hippocampal Segmentation from CT Scans with a Convolutional Neural Network. Medical Physics . 2019;46(6):e431.

  • Vu C, Porter E, Fuentes P, Guerrero T. Deep convolutional neural networks for automatic segmentation of the hippocampus on MRI scans. ACRO , Orlando FL, USA. 2019.

Posters
   

  • Porter E, Siddiqui ZA, Guerrero T. A DICOM Organization and Reconstruction Toolkit Written in Python. AAPM Practical Big Data Workshop , Virtual, Sept. 2021.

  • Porter E, Fuentes P, Siddiqui ZA, et al . Hippocampal Segmentation from CT Scans with a Convolutional Neural Network. American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting, San Antonio TX, July 2019.

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