Professor Hoyeon Lee

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, HKU
- B.S. (Nuclear Engineering), M.S. (Medical Imaging), Ph.D. (Medical Physics)
Research Interests
- Low-dose imaging
- Radiation therapy physics
- Computational modeling
- Clinical outcome prediction
Education
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US (02/2022 – 02/2024)
- CAMPEM Medical Physics Certificate Program
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea (03/2016 – 02/2020)
- PhD, Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering (Medical Physics)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea (09/2013 – 08/2015)
- MS, Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering (Medical Imaging)
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea (02/2009 – 08/2013)
- BS, Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering
Patent
- Cho, B., Lee, H., Kim, Y., Lee, S., Kwak, J. Kim, H., Cho, S., Methods for high energy X-ray fluence map generation using deep-neural-network, Korean patent 1022750980000
- Park, M., Lee, H., Cho, S., Method of inspecting of ball grid array package, Korean patent 1018902810000, US patent US11150198B2, and PCT application PCT/IB2017/056460
- Lee, H., Cho, S., Device and method for processing image using image registration, Korean patent 1019315640000
Selected Publications
Selected publications
- Bobić, M., Christensen, J. B., Lee, H., Choulilitsa, E., Czerska, K., Togno, M., Safai, S., Yukihara, E. G., Winey, B., Lomax, A. J., Paganetti, H., Albertini, F., Nesteruk, K. P., “Optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters for simultaneous measurement of point dose and dose-weighted LET in an adaptive proton therapy workflow,” Frontiers in Oncology, 13 (2023)
- Bobić, M, Lalonde, A., Nesteruk, K., Lee, H., Neonoff, L., Borissen, B., Bertolet, A., Busse, P., Chan, A., Winey, B., Sharp, G., Verburg, J., Lomax, A., Paganetti, H., “Large anatomical changes in head-and-neck cancers – a dosimetric comparison of online and offline adaptive proton therapy,” Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 40, 100625 (2023)
- Lee, H., Cheon, B.-W., Feld, J., Grogg, K., Perl, J., Faddegon, B., Min, C. H., Paganetti, H., Schuemann, J., “TOPAS-imaging: An extension to the TOPAS simulation toolkit for medical imaging systems,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 68(8), 084001 (2023)
- Kim, H., Lee, H., Lee, S., Choi, Y.-w., Choi, Y. J., Kim, K. H., Seo, W., Shin C. W., Cho S., “A feasibility study on deep-neural-network-based dose-neutral dual-energy digital breast tomosynthesis,” Medical Physics, 50(2), 791-807 (2022) (Kim, H., and Lee, H. contributed equally as co-first authors)
- Babier, A., Mahmood, R., Zhang, B., Alves, V. G. L., Barragán-Montero, A. M., Beaudry, J., Cardenas, C. E., Chang , Y., Chen, Z., Chun, J., Diaz, K., Eraso, H. D., Faustmann, E., Gaj, S., Gay, S., Gronberg, M., Guo, B., He, J., Heilemann, G., Hira, S., Huang, Y., Ji, F., Jiang, D., Giraldo, J. C. J., Lee, H., Lian, J., Liu, S., Liu, K.-C., Marrugo, J., Miki, K., Nakamura, K., Netherton, T., Nguyen, D., Nourzadeh, H., Osman, A. F., Peng, Z., Muñoz, J. D. Q., Ramsl, C., Rhee, D. J., Rodriguez, J. D., Shan, H., Siebers, J. V., Soomro, M. H., Sun, K., Hoyos, A. U., Valderrama, C., Verbeek, R., Wang, E., Willems, S., Wu, Q., Xu, X., Yang, S., Yuan, L., Zhu, S., Zimmermann, L., Moore, K. L., Purdie, T. G., McNiven, A. L., and Chan, T. C. Y. “OpenKBP-Opt: an international and reproducible evaluation of 76 knowledge-based planning pipelines,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 67(18), 185012 (2022)
- Lee, H., Shin, J., Verbug, J., Bobić, M., Winey, B., Schuemann, J., Paganetti, H., “MOQUI: An open-source GPU-based Monte Carlo code for proton dose calculation with efficient data structure,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 67(17) (2022)
- Lee, S., Kim, H., Lee, H., and Cho, S., “Deep-learning-based breast thickness and shape estimation for breast imaging applications,” Medical Physics, 49(6), 3670-3682 (2022)
- Yun, S., Kim, Y., Kim, H., Lee, S., Jeong, U., Lee, H., Choi, Y.-w., Cho, S., “Three-compartment-breast (3CB) prior-guided diffuse optical tomography based on dual-energy digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT),” Biomedical Optics Express, 12(8), 4837-4851 (2022)
- Lee, M., Cho, M.-s., Lee, H., Jeong, C., Kwak, J., Jung, J., Kim, S. S., Yoon, S. M., Song, S. Y., Lee, S.-w., Kim, J. H., Choi, E. K., Cho, S., and Cho, B., “Geometric and dosimetric verification of a recurrent neural network algorithm to compensate for respiratory motion using an articulated robotic couch,” Journal of Korean Physical Society, 78(1), 64-72. (2021) (Lee, M, Cho, M.-s., and Lee, H. contributed equally as co-first authors)
- Lee, H., Cheong, K. H., Jung, J. W., Cho, B., Cho, S., and Yeo, I., “On-beam computed tomography reconstruction for radiotherapy verification from projection image differences caused by motion during treatment,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 65(5), 055001. (2020)
- Lee, H., Kim, H., Kwak, J., Kim, Y. S., Lee, S.-w., Cho, S., and Cho, B., “Fluence-map generation for prostate intensity-modulated radiotherapy planning using a deep-neural-network,” Scientific Reports, 9(1) (2019)
- Lee, H., Lee, J., Kim, H., Cho, B., and Cho, S., “Deep-Neural-Network-Based Sinogram Synthesis for Sparse-View CT Image Reconstruction,” IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, 3(2), 109-119 (2019)
- Son, K., Chang, J., Lee, H., Kim, C., Lee, T., Cho, S., Park, S., and Kim, J., “Optimal dose reduction algorithm using an attenuation-based tube current modulation method for cone-beam CT imaging,” Plos One, 13(2), e0192933 (2018)
- Lee, H., Min, J., Lee, T., Pua, R., Sabir, S., Yoon, K.-h. Kim, H., and Cho, S., “Investigation on Beam-Blocker-Based Scatter Correction Method for Improving CT Number Accuracy,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 64(3), 908-914 (2017)
- Lee, M., Cho, M.-s., Lee, H., Cheong, H., Cho, B., “Simulation and Experimental Studies of Real-Time Motion Compensation Using an Articulated Robotic Manipulator System,” Progress in Medical Physics, 28(4), 171-180 (2017)
- Son K., Kim, J., Lee, H. and Cho, S., “Imaging dose of human organs from kv-cbct in image-guided radiation therapy,” Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 175(2), 194-200 (2017)