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Ke Lu

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology
Dept of Radiation Oncology, Box 3295, Durham, NC 27710
40 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology · 2026 - Present Radiation Oncology, Clinical Science Departments
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute · 2025 - Present Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers

Recent Publications


Knowledge-based deep residual U-Net (DRU) for synthetic CT generation using a single MR volume for frameless radiosurgery.

Journal Article J Appl Clin Med Phys · January 2026 PURPOSE: To develop a knowledge-based deep model for sCT generation from a single MR volume in LINAC-based frameless SRS, enabling the MR-only workflow without extra CT simulation. METHODS: A total of 139 patients were included in the study, with 120 used ... Full text Link to item Cite

PhysMorph: A biomechanical and image-guided deep learning framework for real-time multi-modal liver image registration.

Journal Article Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol · January 2026 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Accurate registration of pretreatment Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to onboard Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is critical for liver Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) but is challenged by poor CBCT soft-tissue contr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Constructing Long COVID Risk Communication in the US: A Topic Modeling-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of News Coverage

Conference Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Design of Communication SIGDOC 2025 · October 24, 2025 This study conducts a topic modeling-based critical discourse analysis of 111 articles from The New York Times and 89 articles from The Washington Post between 2020 and 2022. Incorporating a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)-based machine learning techniqu ... Full text Cite
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Education


Duke University · 2022 Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign · 2018 B.S.