Thoracic Imaging × Medical AI

Pa Hong, MD 홍파

Clinical Professor of Radiology · Thoracic Imaging
Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine · PhD student, Dept. of Digital Health, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University

A thoracic radiologist (CT, X-ray, image-guided lung biopsy) and medical AI researcher with dual licensure in Western and Korean medicine. I work on clinical data-driven AI that solves real problems in radiology practice.

Research

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Chest X-ray AI

Chest X-ray foundation models

How patient characteristics should be encoded in chest X-ray foundation models for accuracy and fairness.

Quantitative CT

Quantitative CT & automated measurement

Automated measurement and quantification of cardiovascular and airway findings on routine chest CT.

Vision-Language

Medical vision-language models

3D CT/MRI vision-language and prediction models, in collaboration with SNU IMSI Lab (advisor).

LLM × Education

LLMs in radiology education

Validating LLM-generated learning materials and multi-LLM pipelines for radiology education.

Evidence Synthesis

Systematic review & meta-analysis

Meta-analyses of interventional and diagnostic imaging procedures such as CBCT-guided lung biopsy.

Population Imaging

Population imaging cohorts

Large screening cohorts linking incidental chest CT findings to long-term outcomes.

  • Oral presentation at RSNA 2026 (Chicago, Dec 3, session R3-SSCH07)
  • CHEST: Incidental emphysema on screening chest CT and all-cause mortality (co-corresponding)
  • npj Digital Medicine: Human-in-the-loop validation of a multi-LLM education pipeline (co-corresponding)
  • Diagn Interv Radiol: Meta-analysis of CBCT-guided lung biopsy (corresponding)
  • Reviewer for MICCAI 2026 · Co-author of Medic-AD at CVPR 2026

Chest Radar

A weekly digest of chest imaging AI: key results, what it means in the reading room, limitations, and research seeds.

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