Heejong Kim
Postdoctoral researcher
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About

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Mert Sabuncu's lab at Cornell and Weill Cornell Medicine. I got my Ph.D. at NYU ViDA Research Center, advised by Guido Gerig. My research interest lies in discovering computational techniques and their application to biomedical images.

Recent Updates

  • May 2023: I was awarded Postdoctoral Researcher Seed Grant from WCM Radiology.

  • May 2023: Our paper discussing the role of AI in prostate MRI was accepted by European Journal of Radiology (Paper).

  • Feb 2023: Our paper learning to compare longitudinal image sequences was accepted and invited for an oral presentation by MIDL (Paper | Code | Webpage).

  • Nov 2022: I was invited as a junior chair for NIPS Workshop ML4H Symposium Roundtable.

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Publications

The role of AI in prostate MRI quality and interpretation: Opportunities and challenges

H Kim, SW Kang, J Kim, H Nagar, MR Sabuncu, DJA Margolis, CK Kim

European Journal of Radiology, 2023

[ Paper ]

Learning to Compare Longitudinal Images

H Kim, MR Sabuncu

MIDL: Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2023

[ Paper | Code | Webpage| Oral presentation ]

Pulse Sequence Dependence of a Simple and Interpretable Deep Learning Method for Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer Using Multiparametric MRI

H Kim, DJA Margolis, H Nagar, MR Sabuncu

Academic Radiology, 2022

[ Paper | Code ]

Q-space Conditioned Translation Networks for Directional Synthesis of Diffusion Weighted Images from Multi-modal Structural MRI

M Ren∗, H Kim∗, N Dey, G Gerig

MICCAI: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 2021.

[ Paper | Code | Webpage | Oral presentation |∗Equal contribution ]

Equivariant Spherical Deconvolution: Learning Sparse Orientation Distribution Functions from Spherical Data

A Elaldi, N Dey, H Kim, G Gerig

IPMI: Information Processing in Medical Imaging, 2021.

[ Paper | Code ]

Microparticle-based Biochemical Sensing Using Optical Coherence Tomography and Deep Learning

S Shah, CN Yu, M Zheng, H Kim, MS Eggleston

ACS Nano, 2021.

[ Paper ]

Hierarchical Geodesic Modeling on the Diffusion Orientation Distribution Function for Longitudinal DW-MRI Analysis

H Kim, S Hong, M Styner, J Piven, K Botteron, G Gerig

MICCAI: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 2020.

[ Paper ]

A framework to construct a longitudinal dw-mri infant atlas based on mixed effects modeling of dodf coefficients

H Kim, M Styner, J Piven, G Gerig

MICCAI CDMRI: Computational Diffusion MRI, 2020.

[ Paper | Oral presentation | Best oral presentation award ]

Longitudinal structural connectivity in the developing brain with projective non-negative matrix factorization

H Kim, J Piven, G Gerig

SPIE Medical Imaging, 2019.

[ Paper | Oral presentation | Best paper finalist ]

Using individualized brain network for analyzing structural covariance of the cerebral cortex in alzheimer's patients

HJ Kim, JH Shin, CE Han, HJ Kim, DL Na, SW Seo, JK Seong, and the ADNI

Frontiers in neuroscience, 2016.

[ Paper ]

Tract-specific correlates of neuropsychological deficits in patients with subcortical vascular cognitive impairment

NY Jung, CE Han, HJ Kim, SW Yoo, HJ Kim, EJ Kim, DL Na, SN Lockhart, WJ Jagust, JK Seong, SW Seo

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2016.

[ Paper ]