Publications

2026

Neuro–visceral immunometabolic network phenotyping via baseline whole-body [¹⁸F] FDG PET/CT underlying pathologic response to neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy in resectable NSCLC

Chengcheng Shi, Song Xue, Tiancheng Li, Zhiguo Wei, Xinli Xie, Xinwei Li, Shuangshuang Lv, Marcus Hacker, Youhong Hu, Hong Zong, Xiang Li

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2026

Lesion-level dual-tracer PET biomarkers predict prognosis in multiple myeloma treated with CXCR4-directed radiopharmaceutical therapy

Song Xue, Sabrina Kraus, Johanna S Enke, Kerstin Michalski, Marcus Hacker, Hermann Einsele, Andreas K Buck, Constantin Lapa, Xiang Li, Niklas Dreher

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2026

Time-robust myocardial [68Ga]Ga-FAPI PET biomarker reflects aortic stenosis severity and predicts post-TAVI outcomes

Song Xue, Qianling Ye, Aleksa Lazarević, Kevin Hamzaraj, Patrick Binder, Christian Nitsche, Attila Kiss, Bruno K Podesser, Marcus Hacker, Xiang Li, Raffaella Calabretta

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2026

Quantitative dual-tracer PET/CT biomarkers correlate concordant lesion uptake with PSMA-RLT outcomes in mCRPC: a dual-center study

Song Xue, Holger Einspieler, Sijie Wen, Dina Muin, Ana Antic Nikolic, Jan Baessler, Gero Kramer, Shahrokh F Shariat, Constantin Lapa, Marcus Hacker, Sazan Rasul, Xiang Li

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2025

Molecular imaging of fibroblast activation in systemic sclerosis using [18F] AlF-NOTA-FAPI-04 PET/CT: a prospective cohort study

Meixin Zhao, Hui Wei, Meng Wang, Zeyang Wang, Xinwei Li, Hui Li, Annan Zhang, Song Xue, Marcus Hacker, Weifang Zhang, Rong Mu, Xiang Li

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2025

UDPET: Ultra-low dose PET imaging challenge dataset

Song Xue, Hanzhong Wang, Yizhou Chen, Fanxuan Liu, Hong Zhu, Marco Viscione, Rui Guo, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention

2025

Fibroblast activation protein-targeted PET/CT in multiple non-ischemic cardiomyopathies

Qiao Yang, Song Xue, Chao Ren, Xue Lin, Marcus Hacker, Wei Chen, Na Niu, Xiang Li, Li Huo

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2025

A deep learning method for the recovery of standard-dose imaging quality from ultra-low-dose PET on wavelet domain

Song Xue, Fanxuan Liu, Hanzhong Wang, Hong Zhu, Hasan Sari, Marco Viscione, Raphael Sznitman, Axel Rominger, Rui Guo, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2025

Data-efficient generalization of AI transformers for noise reduction in ultra-fast lung PET scans

Jiale Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Ying Miao, Song Xue, Yu Zhang, Kuangyu Shi, Rui Guo, Biao Li, Guoyan Zheng

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2024

Influence of dosimetry accuracy on the correlation with treatment outcome in a preliminary PSMA radiopharmaceutical therapy study

Jiaxi Hu, Robert Seifert, Sofia Karkampouna, Carlos Vinicius Gomes, Song Xue, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2024

3D full-dose brain-PET volume recovery from low-dose data through deep learning: quantitative assessment and clinical evaluation

Rui Guo, Jiale Wang, Ying Miao, Xinyu Zhang, Song Xue, Yu Zhang, Kuangyu Shi, Biao Li, Guoyan Zheng

European Radiology

2024

Dopaminergic PET to SPECT domain adaptation: a cycle GAN translation approach

Leonor Lopes, Fangyang Jiao, Song Xue, Thomas Pyka, Korbinian Krieger, Jingjie Ge, Qian Xu, Rachid Fahmi, Bruce Spottiswoode, Ahmed Soliman, Ralph Buchert, Matthias Brendel, Jimin Hong, Yihui Guan, Axel Rominger, Chuantao Zuo, Kuangyu Shi, Ping Wu

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2024

Long-axial field-of-view PET/CT improves radiomics feature reliability

Ian L. Alberts, Song Xue, Hasan Sari, Lara Cavinato, George Prenosil, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Clemens Mingels, Kuangyu Shi, Federico Caobelli, Arman Rahmim, Thomas Pyka, Axel Rominger

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2024

Pre-therapy PET-based voxel-wise dosimetry prediction by characterizing intra-organ heterogeneity in PSMA-directed radiopharmaceutical theranostics

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Yu Zhao, Lorenzo Mercolli, Fangxiao Cheng, Isabel Rauscher, Calogero D’Alessandria, Robert Seifert, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Axel Rominger, Matthias Eiber, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2024

Clinical Evaluation of Deep Learning Corrected PET Imaging for Lesion Detection and Quantification

Song Xue, Hangxing Chunyu, Xinyu Zhang, Axel Rominger, Rui Guo, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2023

Utility of CT-free attenuation and scatter correction in dual-tracer PET/CT for Evaluation of Gastric Cancer

Song Xue, Rui Guo, Hanzhong Wang, Marco Viscione, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

2023

Organ-regularized Deep Learning for Voxel-wise Prediction of Post-therapy Dosimetry for 177Lu PSMA Therapy

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Matthias Eiber, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

2023

Clinical evaluation of a deep learning-based CT-free attenuation and scatter correction

Song Xue, Huijun Zhou, Rui Guo, Marco Viscione, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

2022

Application of machine learning to pretherapeutically estimate dosimetry in men with advanced prostate cancer treated with 177Lu-PSMA I&T therapy

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Chao Dong, Yu Zhao, Giles Tetteh, Bjoern H Menze, Sibylle Ziegler, Wolfgang Weber, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Axel Rominger, Matthias Eiber, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2022

A cross-scanner and cross-tracer deep learning method for the recovery of standard-dose imaging quality from low-dose PET

Song Xue, Rui Guo, Karl Peter Bohn, Jared Matzke, Marco Viscione, Ian Alberts, Hongping Meng, Chenwei Sun, Miao Zhang, Min Zhang, Raphael Sznitman, Georges El Fakhri, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2022

Proof-of-concept Study to Estimate Individual Post-Therapy Dosimetry in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Treated with 177Lu-PSMA I&T Therapy

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Chao Dong, Yu Zhao, Giles Tetteh, Bjoern H Menze, Sibylle Ziegler, Wolfgang Weber, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Axel Rominger, Matthias Eiber, Kuangyu Shi

Research Square

2022

Practice of domain knowledge in trustworthy deep learning for CT-free PET imaging

Song Xue, Rui Guo, Hasan Sari, Clemens Mingels, Konstantinos Zeimpekis, George Prenosil, Raphael Sznitman, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine

2021

Development of a deep learning method for CT-free correction for an ultra-long axial field of view PET scanner

Song Xue, Karl Peter Bohn, Rui Guo, Hasan Sari, Marco Viscione, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)

2021

PBPK pre-trained deep learning for voxel-wise prediction of post-therapy dosimetry for 177Lu-PSMA therapy

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Milos Drobnjakovic, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Gabriele Birindelli, Matthias Eiber, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

2021

Development of a deep learning method for CT-free attenuation correction for a long axial field of view PET scanner

Song Xue, Karl Peter Bohn, Rui Guo, Hasan Sari, Marco Viscione, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

2021

Development of a deep learning method for CT-free attenuation correction for an ultra-long axial field of view PET scanner

Song Xue, Karl Peter Bohn, Rui Guo, Hasan Sari, Marco Viscione, Axel Rominger, Biao Li, Kuangyu Shi

Nuklearmedizin

2021

PBPK Model Based Voxel-wise Prediction of Posttherapy Dosimetry for Lu-177-PSMA I&T Therapy

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Milos Drobnjakovic, Yu Zhao, Gabriele Birindelli, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Matthias Eiber, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2020

Voxel-wise prediction of post-therapy dosimetry for 177Lu-prostate-specific membrane antigen I and T therapy

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Kuangyu Shi

2020

Voxel-wise prediction of post-therapy dosimetry for 177Lu-PSMA I&T therapy using deep learning

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Matthias Eiber, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

2020

First Voxel-wise Prediction of Post-therapy Dosimetry for 177Lu-PSMA I&T Therapy

Song Xue, Andrei Gafita, Yu Zhao, Ali Afshar-Oromieh, Matthias Eiber, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi

Nuklearmedizin

2020

A cross-scanner robustdeep learning method for the recovery of full-dose imaging quality from low-dose PET

Song Xue, Rui Guo, Karl Peter Bohn, Jared Matzke, Marco Viscione, Biao Li, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging