Olivier Morin, PhD
Professor
Radiation Oncology
School of Medicine

Our informatics efforts use a wealth of digital information to build point-of-care artificial intelligence tools aimed at assisting physicians in the clinic. Novel algorithms are being developed to produce interpretable multi-criteria analyses tools.

• Expectations of Processing Ease, Informativeness, and Accuracy Guide Toddlers' Processing of Novel Communicative Cues.
  Cognitive science 2023 Aguirre M, Brun M, Morin O, Reboul A, Mascaro O
• Puzzling out graphic codes.
  The Behavioral and brain sciences 2023 Morin O
• Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers: Sharing Ideas on How to Build an Artificial Intelligence-Ready Informatics Ecosystem for Radiation Oncology.
  JCO clinical cancer informatics 2023 Bitterman DS, Gensheimer MF, Jaffray D, Pryma DA, Jiang SB, Morin O, Ginart JB, Upadhaya T, Vallis KA, Buatti JM, Deasy J, Hsiao HT, Chung C, Fuller CD, Greenspan E, Cloyd-Warwick K, Courdy S, Mao A, …
• Zipf's Law of Abbreviation holds for individual characters across a broad range of writing systems.
  Cognition 2023 Koshevoy A, Miton H, Morin O
• Statistical signals of copying are robust to time- and space-averaging.
  Evolutionary human sciences 2023 Youngblood M, Miton H, Morin O
• Development and multi-institutional validation of a convolutional neural network to detect vertebral body mis-alignments in 2D x-ray setup images.
  Medical physics 2023 Petragallo R, Bertram P, Halvorsen P, Iftimia I, Low DA, Morin O, Narayanasamy G, Saenz DL, Sukumar KN, Valdes G, Weinstein L, Wells MC, Ziemer BP, Lamb JM
• Quality Assurance for AI-Based Applications in Radiation Therapy.
  Seminars in radiation oncology 2022 Claessens M, Oria CS, Brouwer CL, Ziemer BP, Scholey JE, Lin H, Witztum A, Morin O, Naqa IE, Van Elmpt W, Verellen D
• Knowledge-based planning algorithm for lung SBRT with robust Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis and missing data management.
  Medical physics 2022 Kroshko A, Morin O, Archambault L
• Predicting Adverse Radiation Effects in Brain Tumors After Stereotactic Radiotherapy With Deep Learning and Handcrafted Radiomics.
  Frontiers in oncology 2022 Keek SA, Beuque M, Primakov S, Woodruff HC, Chatterjee A, van Timmeren JE, Vallières M, Hendriks LEL, Kraft J, Andratschke N, Braunstein SE, Morin O, Lambin P
• Automated detection and segmentation of non-small cell lung cancer computed tomography images.
  Nature communications 2022 Primakov SP, Ibrahim A, van Timmeren JE, Wu G, Keek SA, Beuque M, Granzier RWY, Lavrova E, Scrivener M, Sanduleanu S, Kayan E, Halilaj I, Lenaers A, Wu J, Monshouwer R, Geets X, Gietema HA, Hendriks …
• Adverse radiation effect and freedom from progression following repeat stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2022 Sneed PK, Chan JW, Ma L, Braunstein SE, Theodosopoulos PV, Fogh SE, Nakamura JL, Boreta L, Raleigh DR, Ziemer BP, Morin O, Hervey-Jumper SL, McDermott MW
• Prospective Clinical Validation of Virtual Patient-Specific Quality Assurance of Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Radiation Therapy Plans.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2022 Wall PDH, Hirata E, Morin O, Valdes G, Witztum A
• Resection with intraoperative cesium-131 brachytherapy as salvage therapy for recurrent brain tumors.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2022 Chen WC, Lafreniere M, Phuong C, Liu SJ, Baal JD, Lometti M, Morin O, Ziemer B, Vasudevan HN, Lucas CG, Hervey-Jumper SL, Theodosopoulos PV, Magill ST, Fogh S, Nakamura JL, Boreta L, Sneed PK, …
• Artificial Intelligence-Guided Prediction of Dental Doses Before Planning of Radiation Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer: Technical Development and Initial Feasibility of Implementation.
  Advances in radiation oncology 2021 Chan JW, Hohenstein N, Carpenter C, Pattison AJ, Morin O, Valdes G, Sanchez CT, Perkins J, Solberg TD, Yom SS
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of liver tumor position variability during SBRT using various motion management and IGRT strategies.
  Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 2021 Sharma M, Nano TF, Akkati M, Milano MT, Morin O, Feng M
• The shortlist effect: nestedness contributions as a tool to explain cultural success.
  Evolutionary human sciences 2021 Morin O, Sobchuk O
• Association of mental health diagnosis with race and all-cause mortality after a cancer diagnosis: Large-scale analysis of electronic health record data.
  Cancer 2021 Chen WC, Boreta L, Braunstein SE, Rabow MW, Kaplan LE, Tenenbaum JD, Morin O, Park CC, Hong JC
• An artificial intelligence framework integrating longitudinal electronic health records with real-world data enables continuous pan-cancer prognostication.
  Nature cancer 2021 Morin O, Vallières M, Braunstein S, Ginart JB, Upadhaya T, Woodruff HC, Zwanenburg A, Chatterjee A, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Valdes G, Chen W, Hong JC, Yom SS, Solberg TD, Löck S, Seuntjens J, Park C, …
• Feasibility and Significance of Dose Adaptation via Linear Couch Translations to Correct for Rotational Shifts During Frameless Brain Radiosurgery with the Gamma Knife Icon™.
  Acta neurochirurgica. Supplement 2021 Cheung JP, Morin O, Braunstein SE, Sneed PK, Theodosopoulos PV, McDermott MW, Ma L
• Use of Receiver Operating Curve Analysis and Machine Learning With an Independent Dose Calculation System Reduces the Number of Physical Dose Measurements Required for Patient-Specific Quality Assurance.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2020 Hasse K, Scholey J, Ziemer BP, Natsuaki Y, Morin O, Solberg TD, Hirata E, Valdes G, Witztum A
• Closing the Gap Between Machine Learning and Clinical Cancer Care-First Steps Into a Larger World.
  JAMA oncology 2020 Kang J, Morin O, Hong JC
• DoseGAN: a generative adversarial network for synthetic dose prediction using attention-gated discrimination and generation.
  Scientific reports 2020 Kearney V, Chan JW, Wang T, Perry A, Descovich M, Morin O, Yom SS, Solberg TD
• Machine and deep learning methods for radiomics.
  Medical physics 2020 Avanzo M, Wei L, Stancanello J, Vallières M, Rao A, Morin O, Mattonen SA, El Naqa I
• Attention-Aware Discrimination for MR-to-CT Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks.
  Radiology. Artificial intelligence 2020 Kearney V, Ziemer BP, Perry A, Wang T, Chan JW, Ma L, Morin O, Yom SS, Solberg TD
• The Image Biomarker Standardization Initiative: Standardized Quantitative Radiomics for High-Throughput Image-based Phenotyping.
  Radiology 2020 Zwanenburg A, Vallières M, Abdalah MA, Aerts HJWL, Andrearczyk V, Apte A, Ashrafinia S, Bakas S, Beukinga RJ, Boellaard R, Bogowicz M, Boldrini L, Buvat I, Cook GJR, Davatzikos C, Depeursinge A, …
• An Open-Source Tool for Anisotropic Radiation Therapy Planning in Neuro-oncology Using DW-MRI Tractography.
  Frontiers in oncology 2019 Jordan K, Morin O, Wahl M, Amirbekian B, Chapman C, Owen J, Mukherjee P, Braunstein S, Henry R
• Integrated models incorporating radiologic and radiomic features predict meningioma grade, local failure, and overall survival.
  Neuro-oncology advances 2019 Morin O, Chen WC, Nassiri F, Susko M, Magill ST, Vasudevan HN, Wu A, Vallières M, Gennatas ED, Valdes G, Pekmezci M, Alcaide-Leon P, Choudhury A, Interian Y, Mortezavi S, Turgutlu K, Bush NAO, Solberg…
• Radiomics Analysis for Clinical Decision Support in Nuclear Medicine.
  Seminars in nuclear medicine 2019 Ibrahim A, Vallières M, Woodruff H, Primakov S, Beheshti M, Keek S, Refaee T, Sanduleanu S, Walsh S, Morin O, Lambin P, Hustinx R, Mottaghy FM
• Majority rules: how good are we at aggregating convergent opinions?
  Evolutionary human sciences 2019 Mercier H, Morin O
• Stochastic frontier analysis as knowledge-based model to improve sparing of organs-at-risk for VMAT-treated prostate cancer.
  Physics in medicine and biology 2019 Kroshko A, Morin O, Archambault L
• Optimizing beam models for dosimetric accuracy over a wide range of treatments.
  Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) 2019 Chen J, Morin O, Weethee B, Perez-Andujar A, Phillips J, Held M, Kearney V, Han DY, Cheung J, Chuang C, Valdes G, Sudhyadhom A, Solberg T
• Erratum: "Machine learning algorithms for outcome prediction in (chemo)radiotherapy: An empirical comparison of classifiers" [Med. Phys. 45 (7), 3449-3459 (2018)].
  Medical physics 2019 Deist TM, Dankers FJWM, Valdes G, Wijsman R, Hsu IC, Oberije C, Lustberg T, van Soest J, Hoebers F, Jochems A, El Naqa I, Wee L, Morin O, Raleigh DR, Bots W, Kaanders JH, Belderbos J, Kwint M, Solberg…
• Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology Imaging.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2018 Thompson RF, Valdes G, Fuller CD, Carpenter CM, Morin O, Aneja S, Lindsay WD, Aerts HJWL, Agrimson B, Deville C, Rosenthal SA, Yu JB, Thomas CR
• Preoperative and postoperative prediction of long-term meningioma outcomes.
  PloS one 2018 Gennatas ED, Wu A, Braunstein SE, Morin O, Chen WC, Magill ST, Gopinath C, Villaneueva-Meyer JE, Perry A, McDermott MW, Solberg TD, Valdes G, Raleigh DR
• A Deep Look Into the Future of Quantitative Imaging in Oncology: A Statement of Working Principles and Proposal for Change.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2018 Morin O, Vallières M, Jochems A, Woodruff HC, Valdes G, Braunstein SE, Wildberger JE, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Kearney V, Yom SS, Solberg TD, Lambin P
• Machine learning algorithms for outcome prediction in (chemo)radiotherapy: An empirical comparison of classifiers.
  Medical physics 2018 Deist TM, Dankers FJWM, Valdes G, Wijsman R, Hsu IC, Oberije C, Lustberg T, van Soest J, Hoebers F, Jochems A, El Naqa I, Wee L, Morin O, Raleigh DR, Bots W, Kaanders JH, Belderbos J, Kwint M, Solberg…
• Artificial intelligence in radiation oncology: A specialty-wide disruptive transformation?
  Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 2018 Thompson RF, Valdes G, Fuller CD, Carpenter CM, Morin O, Aneja S, Lindsay WD, Aerts HJWL, Agrimson B, Deville C, Rosenthal SA, Yu JB, Thomas CR
• Clinical Applications of Quantitative 3-Dimensional MRI Analysis for Pediatric Embryonal Brain Tumors.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2018 Hara JH, Wu A, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Valdes G, Daggubati V, Mueller S, Solberg TD, Braunstein SE, Morin O, Raleigh DR
• The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2018 Thompson RF, Valdes G, Fuller CD, Carpenter CM, Morin O, Aneja S, Lindsay WD, Aerts HJWL, Agrimson B, Deville C, Rosenthal SA, Yu JB, Thomas CR
• Deep nets vs expert designed features in medical physics: An IMRT QA case study.
  Medical physics 2018 Interian Y, Rideout V, Kearney VP, Gennatas E, Morin O, Cheung J, Solberg T, Valdes G
• Histopathological features predictive of local control of atypical meningioma after surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2018 Chen WC, Magill ST, Wu A, Vasudevan HN, Morin O, Aghi MK, Theodosopoulos PV, Perry A, McDermott MW, Sneed PK, Braunstein SE, Raleigh DR
• Commissioning and Evaluation of an Electronic Portal Imaging Device-Based In-Vivo Dosimetry Software.
  Cureus 2018 Held M, Cheung J, Perez Andujar A, Husson F, Morin O
• Multiple myeloma and a mischievous pacemaker: A teaching case involving irradiation of a cardiovascular implantable electronic device.
  Practical radiation oncology 2017 Lloyd S, Morin O, Whitman I, Raleigh D, Fogh S, Menzel P
• Identifying Voxels at Risk for Progression in Glioblastoma Based on Dosimetry, Physiologic and Metabolic MRI.
  Radiation research 2017 Anwar M, Molinaro AM, Morin O, Chang SM, Haas-Kogan DA, Nelson SJ, Lupo JM
• Characterization of the effect of a new commercial transmission detector on radiation therapy beams.
  Practical radiation oncology 2017 Cheung JP, Perez-Andujar A, Morin O
• Development and clinical evaluation of an ionization chamber array with 3.5 mm pixel pitch for quality assurance in advanced radiotherapy techniques.
  Medical physics 2016 Togno M, Wilkens JJ, Menichelli D, Oechsner M, Perez-Andujar A, Morin O
• An automated deformable image registration evaluation of confidence tool.
  Physics in medicine and biology 2016 Kirby N, Chen J, Kim H, Morin O, Nie K, Pouliot J
• Assessment of image quality and dose calculation accuracy on kV CBCT, MV CBCT, and MV CT images for urgent palliative radiotherapy treatments.
  Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2016 Held M, Cremers F, Sneed PK, Braunstein S, Fogh SE, Nakamura J, Barani I, Perez-Andujar A, Pouliot J, Morin O
• Feasibility of MV CBCT-based treatment planning for urgent radiation therapy: dosimetric accuracy of MV CBCT-based dose calculations.
  Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2015 Held M, Sneed PK, Fogh SE, Pouliot J, Morin O
• Use of TrueBeam developer mode for imaging QA.
  Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2015 Valdes G, Morin O, Valenciaga Y, Kirby N, Pouliot J, Chuang C
• Dosimetric aspects of inverse-planned modulated-arc total-body irradiation.
  Medical physics 2012 Held M, Kirby N, Morin O, Pouliot J
• SU-E-J-96: Investigation into the Accuracy of Deformable Registration Algorithms for Use in Dose Summation: A Case Study in Combined Modalities.
  Medical physics 2012 Chuang C, Morin O, Pouliot J
• SU-E-T-123: Understanding the Meaning of IMRT QA Passing Rates with a 2D Diode Array.
  Medical physics 2012 Perez-Andujar A, Morin O, Chuang C, Pouliot J
• SU-E-T-556: Integration of Lung Blocks in the Inverse Planning Process of Modulated Arc Total Body Irradiation Using Cone Beam CT.
  Medical physics 2012 Morin O, Held M, Kirby N, Perez-Andujar A, Chuang C, Pouliot J
• Inverse-planned modulated-arc total-body irradiation.
  Medical physics 2012 Kirby N, Held M, Morin O, Fogh S, Pouliot J
• Comparison of patient megavoltage cone beam CT images acquired with an unflattened beam from a carbon target and a flattened treatment beam.
  Medical physics 2010 Faddegon BA, Aubin M, Bani-Hashemi A, Gangadharan B, Gottschalk AR, Morin O, Sawkey D, Wu V, Yom SS
• A diamond target for megavoltage cone-beam CT.
  Medical physics 2010 Sawkey D, Lu M, Morin O, Aubin M, Yom SS, Gottschalk AR, Bani-Hashemi A, Faddegon BA
• Investigation of geometric distortions on magnetic resonance and cone beam computed tomography images used for planning and verification of high-dose rate brachytherapy cervical cancer treatment.
  Brachytherapy 2010 Aubry JF, Cheung J, Morin O, Beaulieu L, Hsu IC, Pouliot J
• Physical performance and image optimization of megavoltage cone-beam CT.
  Medical physics 2009 Morin O, Aubry JF, Aubin M, Chen J, Descovich M, Hashemi AB, Pouliot J
• Correction of megavoltage cone-beam CT images of the pelvic region based on phantom measurements for dose calculation purposes.
  Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2009 Aubry JF, Cheung J, Morin O, Gottschalk A, Beaulieu L, Pouliot J
• Sci-Thurs PM: Delivery-12: Correction and calibration of megavoltage cone-beam CT images for the calculation of the dose of the day.
  Medical physics 2008 Aubry JF, Cheung J, Yom S, Gottschalk A, Aubin M, Morin O, Descovich M, Beaulieu L, Pouliot J
• Focused beam-stop array for the measurement of scatter in megavoltage portal and cone beam CT imaging.
  Medical physics 2008 Maltz JS, Gangadharan B, Vidal M, Paidi A, Bose S, Faddegon BA, Aubin M, Morin O, Pouliot J, Zheng Z, Svatos MM, Bani-Hashemi AR
• Characteristics of megavoltage cone-beam digital tomosynthesis.
  Medical physics 2008 Descovich M, Morin O, Aubry JF, Aubin M, Chen J, Bani-Hashemi A, Pouliot J
• Patient dose considerations for routine megavoltage cone-beam CT imaging.
  Medical physics 2007 Morin O, Gillis A, Descovich M, Chen J, Aubin M, Aubry JF, Chen H, Gottschalk AR, Xia P, Pouliot J
• Dose calculation using megavoltage cone-beam CT.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2007 Morin O, Chen J, Aubin M, Gillis A, Aubry JF, Bose S, Chen H, Descovich M, Xia P, Pouliot J
• Image-guided radiotherapy using megavoltage cone-beam computed tomography for treatment of paraspinous tumors in the presence of orthopedic hardware.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2006 Hansen EK, Larson DA, Aubin M, Chen J, Descovich M, Gillis AM, Morin O, Xia P, Pouliot J
• Dose-guided radiation therapy with megavoltage cone-beam CT.
  The British journal of radiology 2006 Chen J, Morin O, Aubin M, Bucci MK, Chuang CF, Pouliot J
• The use of megavoltage cone-beam CT to complement CT for target definition in pelvic radiotherapy in the presence of hip replacement.
  The British journal of radiology 2006 Aubin M, Morin O, Chen J, Gillis A, Pickett B, Aubry JF, Akazawa C, Speight J, Roach M, Pouliot J
• [Megavoltage cone-beam CT: Recent developments and clinical applications].
  Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique 2006 Pouliot J, Morin O, Aubin M, Aubry JF, Chen J, Speight J, Roach M
• Calibration of an amorphous-silicon flat panel portal imager for exit-beam dosimetry.
  Medical physics 2006 Chen J, Chuang CF, Morin O, Aubin M, Pouliot J
• Megavoltage cone-beam CT: system description and clinical applications.
  Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists 2006 Morin O, Gillis A, Chen J, Aubin M, Bucci MK, Roach M, Pouliot J
• Low-dose megavoltage cone-beam CT for radiation therapy.
  International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2005 Pouliot J, Bani-Hashemi A, Chen J, Svatos M, Ghelmansarai F, Mitschke M, Aubin M, Xia P, Morin O, Bucci K, Roach M, Hernandez P, Zheng Z, Hristov D, Verhey L