Research & Publications

Research Interests

My research interests include computational methods in medical imaging, particularly in quantifying oncologic treatment response assessment. My prior work centered on volumetric approaches to treatment response assessment by RECIST 1.1 criteria in longitudinal CT. My current work includes automating RANO 2.0 treatment response assessment in patients with glioblastoma.

Awards and Grants

RSNA Research Medical Student Grant, Fall 2022
Leo G. Rigler Outstanding Senior Medical Student in Radiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, June 2024

Peer Review Experience

RadioGraphics (RG TEAM) Trainee Editorial Board Member, 2026–2027

Peer-reviewed Publications

Gong A, Daly M, Goldin J, Brown MS, McNitt-Gray M, Ruchalski K. New Lung Lesions in Low-dose CT: a newly annotated longitudinal dataset derived from the National Lung Screening Trial. arXiv Medical Physics and The Cancer Imaging Archive. 8 Jul 2025. 10.7937/eyvh-ag54
Gong A, Anaokar J, Ruchalski K. Metastatic Osteosarcoma: Secondary Pneumothorax and Intravascular Tumor Emboli. UCLA Radiological Sciences Proceedings. 2 Jun 2025. 10.5070/RS4.35565
Gong A, Bergholz D, Napir E, Stultz J, Balingit PP, Mikhail-Tadros NE. Unmasking Iatrogenic Cushing Syndrome. E Cronion Clinical & Medical Case Reports. 13 Sep 2023.
Gong A, Ruchalski K, Kim HJ, Douek M, Gutierrez A, Patel M, Sai V, Coy H, Villegas B, Raman S, Goldin J. RECIST 1.1 Target Lesion Categorical Response in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: a comparison of conventional versus volumetric assessment. Radiology: Imaging Cancer. 2023 Sep 1. 10.1148/rycan.220166
Moschovis P, Lombay J, Rooney JA, Schenkel S, Singh D, Rezaei S, Salo NC, Gong A, Yonker L, Shah J, Hayden D, Hibberd P, Demokritou P, Kinane T. The effect of activity and face masks on respiratory aerosol production in children. Pediatric Investigation. 2023 May 3. 10.1002/ped4.12376
Maksimovic N, Eilbott D, Cookmeyer T, Wan F, Rusz R, Nagarajan V, Haley S, Maniv E, Gong A, Faubel S, Hayes E, Bangura A, Singleton J, Palmstrom JC, Winter L, McDonald R, Jang S, Ai P, Lin Y, Ciocys S, Gobbo J, Werman Y, Oppeneer PM, Altman E, Lanzara A, Analytis JG. Evidence for a delocalization quantum phase transition without symmetry breaking in CeCoIn5. Science. 2021 Dec 2. 10.1126/science.aaz4566

Abstracts & Presentations

Gong A, Daly M, Teng PY, Melendez-Corres G, Muhammad WA, Kim H, Ruchalski K, Goldin J, Brown MS. Quantifying accuracy in deformable image registration: An informed selection of CT image pairs with applications in longitudinal imaging. Radiological Society of North America 2023 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Nov 2023.
Gong A, Daly M, Melendez-Corres G, Teng PY, Hukkeri T, Muhammad WA, Ruchalski K, Goldin J, Brown MS. Simulated Longitudinal Image Data: Registering Two Public Datasets to Simulate New Liver Lesions from Baseline to Follow-up. Scientific Poster 4083, American Association of Physicists in Medicine 65th Annual Meeting, Houston, TX. Jul 2023.
Gong A, Daly M, Melendez-Corres G, Teng PY, Hukkeri T, Muhammad WA, Ruchalski K, Goldin J, Brown MS. Toward automating RECIST 1.1: Improving AI new lesion detection with longitudinal image data. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. May 2023. 10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.e13545
Gong A, Ruchalski K, Kim HJ, Douek M, Gutierrez A, Patel M, Sai V, Coy H, Villegas B, Raman S, Goldin J. RECIST 1.1 Target Lesion Categorical Response in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: a comparison of conventional versus volumetric assessment. Scientific Oral Presentation, International Cancer Imaging Society 20th Annual Teaching Course, London, England. Sep 2021. Awards: ICIS 2021 Conference Third Best Oral Presentation.
Gong A, Ruchalski K, Kim HJ, Douek M, Gutierrez A, Patel M, Sai V, Coy H, Villegas B, Raman S, Goldin J. Change in Volumetric Tumor Morphology of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC) during RECIST 1.1 Response Assessment. Scientific Poster, Radiological Society of North America 2020 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Nov 2020.
Gong A, Ruchalski K, Kim HJ, Douek M, Gutierrez A, Patel M, Sai V, Coy H, Villegas B, Raman S, Goldin J. Evaluation of Tumor Volumes for the Categorical Response Assessment of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC). Scientific Poster, Radiological Society of North America 2020 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Nov 2020.
Gong A, Ruchalski K, Kim HJ, Douek M, Gutierrez A, Patel M, Sai V, Coy H, Villegas B, Raman S, Goldin J. Tumor Morphology and RECIST 1.1 Categorization of Response in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Scientific Poster, Josiah Brown Summer Research Poster Fair, Los Angeles, CA. Jul 2020.
Gong A, Maksimovic N, Hayes I, Jang S, Alizadeh B, Altman E, Analytis JG. Strange Metal Transport from a Lifshitz Transition in CeCoIn5. Scientific Poster, Berkeley Physics Undergraduate Research Scholars Symposium, Berkeley, CA. Apr 2019.
Gong A, Lopez G, Channa S, Analytis JG. Synthesis and Magnetic Characterization of Ag2IrO3. Scientific Poster, Berkeley Physics Undergraduate Research Scholars Symposium, Berkeley, CA. Apr 2018.

Pre-print Manuscripts

Maksimovic N, Cookmeyer T, Rusz J, Nagarajan V, Gong A, Wan F, Faubel S, Hayes IM, Jang S, Werman Y, Oppeneer PM, Altman E, Analytis JG. Evidence for freezing of charge degrees of freedom across a critical point in CeCoIn5. arXiv Condensed Matter: Strongly Correlated Electrons. 25 Nov 2020. 10.48550/arXiv.2011.12951