David Thomas

Associate Professor


Curriculum vitae



720-848-0134


Department of Radiation Oncology

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department of Radiation Oncology – University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
1665 Aurora Court, Suite 1032
Mail Stop F706
Aurora, CO 80045



David Thomas

Associate Professor


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David Thomas

Associate Professor


Curriculum vitae



720-848-0134


Department of Radiation Oncology

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department of Radiation Oncology – University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
1665 Aurora Court, Suite 1032
Mail Stop F706
Aurora, CO 80045




Thomas Lab at CUAnschutz/ Thomas Jefferson University


Excited to announce I have recently started a new position at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Open positions for Post-doc / ML / Computer Vision researchers coming soon !...


The Thomas Lab in the Department of Radiation Oncology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is focused on improving the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, through the integration of novel imaging methods. 

News


May 6, 2024

AAPM 2024 Awards!

I’d like to share my congratulations to our physics/computer science trainees Atharva Peshkar (PhD student) and Mohamed Eldib (post-doc fellow) who have both won awards for their research at this year’s AAPM 2024 annual meeting; Atharva has been selec...


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Feb 3, 2024

Benchmarking Trial begins

We've started the process of benchmarking our Computer Vision patient alignment technique against the current gold standard - IR-marker motion tracking.  In a 20 heathy-volunteer study, we will quantify and benchmark our AI technique using optical onl...


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Oct 16, 2023

New project funding!

Excited to announce that our computer vision surface imaging breast DIBH project has been funded by the CU Anschutz Cancer Center, with very positive reviews all round. "In an ongoing cross-institutional collaboration with the Department of Computer S...


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Sep 15, 2023

Computer Vision guided bronchoscopy application

We presented some early results at the ARPA-H Proposer's Day in Chicago recently, and had some really interesting discussions. Lots of great projects represented from CU Anschutz!  Computer Vision enhanced  Advanced Cone Beam CT for Intraoperative G...


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Aug 2, 2023

AAPM!

Successful AAPM 2023 meeting this year in Houston, with lots of interest in Atharva Peshkar and William Frantz 's presentations. Well done Atharva and Will! (Link)


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Projects




Computer Vision enhanced Advanced Cone Beam CT for Intraoperative Guidance.


Using our expertise with 4D-CT and a machine learning approach to motion modelling to improve current image-guided bronchoscopy guidance




Computer Vision assisted Collision Avoidance for Radiation Therapy.


Computer vision combined with a novel skin-mesh model allows patient specific ‘avatars’ to detect and track patient positioning in real-time 3D during treatment.




Computer vision assisted alignment for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).


We are developing a skeletal-pose computer vision model that correlates an external (skin mesh) with an internal (biomechanical) anatomy, thereby aligning the patient-specific model to a patient’s CT imaging.



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Associate Professor
Lab PI. Academic medical physicist.

Current Lab Members



Current Postdoctoral Fellow
Senior Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiation Oncology

PhD Student
First year Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Biomedical Engineering Program.

PhD Student
First year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Senior Bioengineering student
Senior Bioengineering student in the BS/MS program at CU Denver

Previous Lab Members



Previous Post doc
Current Position: Medical Physics Resident, Washington University in St. Louis Now: Faculty Medical Physicist at Washington University in St. Louis.

PhD Student

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David Thomas

Associate Professor



720-848-0134


Department of Radiation Oncology

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department of Radiation Oncology – University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
1665 Aurora Court, Suite 1032
Mail Stop F706
Aurora, CO 80045


Publications


Computer Vision assisted Collision Avoidance for Radiation Therapy


David Thomas, Moyed Miften, Brian Kavanagh, Bernard Trip Jones,

2023 May


Characterizing spatial differences between SPECT-ventilation and SPECT-perfusion in patients with lung cancer undergoing radiotherapy


Farnoush Forghani, Taylor Patton, Jennifer Kwak, David Thomas, Quentin Diot, Chad Rusthoven, Richard Castillo, Edward Castillo, Inga Grills, Thomas Guerrero, others

Radiotherapy and Oncology, vol. 160, Elsevier, 2021, pp. 120--124


Analysis of experimental acoustic waves induced by high energy pulsed X-ray beams


Farnoush Forghani, Adam Mahl, Bernard Jones, Mark Borden, Moyed Miften, David Thomas

Bulletin of the American Physical Society, vol. 65, APS, 2020


Simulation of x-ray-induced acoustic imaging for absolute dosimetry: Accuracy of image reconstruction methods


Farnoush Forghani, Adam Mahl, Taylor J Patton, Bernard L Jones, Mark A Borden, David C Westerly, Cem Altunbas, Moyed Miften, David H Thomas

Medical Physics, vol. 47, Wiley Online Library, 2020, pp. 1280--1290


Effect of X-Ray Irradiation On the Ultrasound Imaging Signal of a Novel Photoacoustic Contrast Agent


F Forghani, A Mahl, G Shakya, M Borden, T Patton, Y Vinogradskiy, B Jones, M Miften, D Thomas

MEDICAL PHYSICS, vol. 47, WILEY 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2020, pp. E763--E763


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