Ben Ellingson, PhD
Professor, Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Imaging Laboratory
About
Dr. Ellingson is the Director of MRI Research in the Department of Radiology. He is also the Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Imaging Laboratory (BTIL), Co-Director of the Center for Computer Vision and Imaging Biomarkers, and a member of the UCLA Brain Tumor Program. Dr. Ellingson's research involves the development, testing, and implementation of advanced MRI and PET imaging biomarkers for the characterization of brain tumor biology and response evaluation in clinical trials.
Dr. Ellingson has been a co-author on more than 240 peer-reviewed original research articles relating to neuroimaging. Dr. Ellingson has extensive experience performing data management and imaging analysis in multicenter clinical trials in brain cancer and he currently serves as the Chair of the Neuro-Imaging Committee for the NIH-funded Adult rain Tumor Consortium (ABTC), Chair of the Imaging Committee for the en and Catherine Ivy Foundation Consortium for Early Phase Clinical Trials, Chair of the Imaging Committee for the new Glioblastoma Global Adaptive Trial, is a member of the ACRIN head/neck/neuro committee imaging committee, and is the co-chair the imaging committee for specific brain tumor trials run by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.
Education and Degree(s)
- Ph.D.
- Marquette University & Medical College of Wisconsin, 2008
- M.S.
- Marquette University, 2005
- B.S.
- Milwaukee School of Engineering, 2003
Publications
- Albert NL, Galldiks N, Ellingson BM, van den Bent MJ, Chang SM, Cicone F, Koh ES, Law I, Le Rhun E, Mair MJ, Werner JM, Berghoff AS, Furtner J, Minniti G, Scott AM, Short SC, Ivanidze J, Johnson DR, Suchorska B, Tolboom N, Tonn JC, Verger A, Galanis E, Brastianos PK, Wen PY, Weller M, Lin NU, Preusser M. RANO criteria for response assessment of brain metastases based on amino acid PET imaging.. Nature medicine, 2025.
- Sanvito F, Yao J, Nocera G, Shao G, Wang Z, Cho NS, Teraishi A, Raymond C, Patel K, Pouratian N, Everson RG, Yang I, Salamon N, Kim W, Ellingson BM. Volumetric and diffusion MRI longitudinal patterns in brain metastases after laser interstitial thermal therapy.. European radiology, 2025.
- Sanvito F, Kryukov I, Yao J, Teraishi A, Raymond C, Gao J, Miller C, Nghiemphu PL, Lai A, Liau LM, Patel K, Everson RG, Eldred BSC, Prins RM, Nathanson DA, Salamon N, Cloughesy TF, Ellingson BM. Advanced imaging characterization of post-chemoradiation glioblastoma stratified by diffusion MRI phenotypes known to predict favorable anti-VEGF response.. Journal of neuro-oncology, 2025.
- Raymond C, Yao J, Clifford B, Feiweier T, Oshima S, Telesca D, Zhong X, Meyer H, Everson RG, Salamon N, Cloughesy TF, Ellingson BM. Leveraging Physics-Based Synthetic MR Images and Deep Transfer Learning for Artifact Reduction in Echo-Planar Imaging.. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 2025.
- Sanvito F, Nocera G, Wang Z, Shiuan E, Sun L, Oshima S, Kim A, Kryukov I, Shao G, Cho NS, Salamon N, Ellingson BM, Prins R, Kim W, Yao J. Diffusion and contrast-enhancement MRI phenotypes associated with immune checkpoint inhibitor exposure and with immune cell infiltration in brain metastases.. Neuro-oncology, 2025.
- Sanvito F, Yao J, Cho NS, Telesca D, Salamon N, Cloughesy TF, Ellingson BM. Normalization of the percentage of signal recovery derived from dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion MRI in brain tumors.. Neuroradiology, 2025.
Honors and Awards
- SNO Award for Excellence in Neuroimaging, Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO), 2019.
- Art of the Brain - Johnny Mercer Foundation Brain Tumor Research Award, Johnny Mercer Foundation, 2013.
- ACRIN Young Investigator Award, American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), 2012.
- W.S. Moore Young Investigator Award in Clinical Research, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2010.