IMPACT Lab
Laboratory for Imaging Physics, Analysis, and Clinical Translation

News & Awards

July 2026

Dr. Gang named Fellow of the AAPM

Recognizing distinguished contributions to the field of medical physics.

June 2026

Top-4 scoring abstracts at the 9th CT Meeting (Salt Lake City, UT)

Two lab abstracts ranked among the top 4 of the conference: Huay Din's "A Theoretical Prediction of CT-based Radiomics Feature Variance to Improve the Performance of Classification Models" and Yue Fan's "Focal Spot Design Optimization for High-Resolution CT."

February 2026

Limei Ma wins first place at SPIE Medical Imaging

First place in the Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Early-Career Investigator Award for "Automatic viewing angles prediction for endovascular treatment in intracranial aneurysm."

August 2025

Featured Article in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

"Multi-Material Decomposition Using Spectral Diffusion Posterior Sampling" by Xiao Jiang et al. was selected as a TBME Featured Article.

February 2024

Poster Award Honorable Mention at SPIE Medical Imaging

Xiaoxuan (Esme) Zhang's "Jacobian Analysis in Deep Learning CT Denoising Networks" received an Honorable Mention poster award.

July 2023

Women-in-Science Award at Fully3D 2023

Recognizing women with outstanding contributions and dedication to the field of Imaging Sciences, and exceptional commitment to advancing knowledge, breaking barriers, and inspiring future generations of women in science.

July 2023

Poster Award at Fully3D 2023

Xiao Jiang's "Multi-material Decomposition with Triple Layer Flat-Panel Detector CBCT using Model-based and Deep Learning Approaches."

July 2022

AAPM John S. Laughlin Early-Career Scientist Award

Awarded to Dr. Gang for outstanding scientific achievement in medical physics as an early-career scientist.

May 2022

Featured Physicist, AAPM Newsletter

Dr. Gang profiled in the May/June 2022 issue of the AAPM Newsletter.

February 2022

Editor's Choice and Cover Article in Medical Physics

"Three-dimensional printing of patient-specific lung phantoms for CT imaging" (Mei et al.) featured on the cover of Medical Physics.

February 2021

Robert Wagner All-Conference Student Paper Award at SPIE

Shaoyan Pan's "Generative Adversarial Networks with Radiomic Supervision for Lung Lesion Synthesis."

June 2019

Women in Imaging Award at Fully3D 2019

Awarded to Dr. Gang for "Performance Analysis for Nonlinear Tomographic Data Processing."