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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - David Rall Medal, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Hedvig Hricak is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of medicine. Their work addresses several subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, surgery, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research covers topics such as:

  • Radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging
  • Prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Prostate cancer treatment and research
  • Advances in oncology and radiotherapy
  • Global cancer incidence and screening
  • Radiology practices and education
  • Medical imaging techniques and applications

Hedvig Hricak has contributed to publications in several venues, with the most frequent including:

  • The Lancet Oncology
  • Radiology
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Academic Radiology
  • European Urology Oncology

Their recent papers include:

  • Medical imaging and nuclear medicine: a Lancet Oncology Commission, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • Diagnostic Performance of Vesical Imaging Reporting and Data System for the Prediction of Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, 2020, European Urology Oncology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hedvig Hricak include:

  • Hebert Alberto Vargas
  • Sungmin Woo
  • Andrew M. Scott
  • Rifat Atun
  • Anton S. Becker

Throughout their career, Hedvig Hricak has received several recognitions including:

  • David Rall Medal, National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2002

Best Publications

  • Radiomics: Images Are More than Pictures, They Are Data.

    Robert J. Gillies;Paul E. Kinahan;Hedvig Hricak

  • Three-dimensional H-1 MR spectroscopic imaging of the in situ human prostate with high (0.24-0.7-cm3) spatial resolution.

    J Kurhanewicz;D B Vigneron;H Hricak;P Narayan

  • Imaging prostate cancer: a multidisciplinary perspective.

    Hedvig Hricak;Peter L. Choyke;Steven C. Eberhardt;Steven A. Leibel

  • Prostate cancer: localization with three-dimensional proton MR spectroscopic imaging--clinicopathologic study.

    J Scheidler;H Hricak;D B Vigneron;K K Yu

  • Radiologic Staging in Patients with Endometrial Cancer: A Meta-analysis

    K. Kinkel;Y. Kaji;K. K. Yu;M. R. Segal

  • VASCULOGENIC IMPOTENCE EVALUATED BY HIGH-RESOLUTION ULTRASONOGRAPHY AND PULSED DOPPLER SPECTRUM ANALYSIS

    T F Lue;H Hricak;K W Marich;E A Tanagho

  • Invasive cervical carcinoma: comparison of MR imaging and surgical findings.

    H Hricak;C G Lacey;L G Sandles;Y C Chang

  • Improving Communication of Diagnostic Radiology Findings through Structured Reporting

    Lawrence H. Schwartz;David M. Panicek;Alexandra R. Berk;Yuelin Li

  • Cervical carcinoma: Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for preoperative staging

    L L Subak;H Hricak;C B Powell;L Azizi

  • Correlation of proton MR spectroscopic imaging with gleason score based on step-section pathologic analysis after radical prostatectomy.

    Kristen L. Zakian;Kanishka Sircar;Hedvig Hricak;Hui Ni Chen

  • Transition Zone Prostate Cancers: Features, Detection, Localization, and Staging at Endorectal MR Imaging

    Oguz Akin;Evis Sala;Chaya S. Moskowitz;Kentaro Kuroiwa

  • Diffusion-weighted Endorectal MR Imaging at 3 T for Prostate Cancer: Tumor Detection and Assessment of Aggressiveness

    Hebert Alberto Vargas;Oguz Akin;Tobias Franiel;Yousef Mazaheri

  • Haralick texture analysis of prostate MRI: utility for differentiating non-cancerous prostate from prostate cancer and differentiating prostate cancers with different Gleason scores

    Andreas Wibmer;Hedvig Hricak;Tatsuo Gondo;Kazuhiro Matsumoto

  • Carcinoma of the prostate gland: MR imaging with pelvic phased-array coils versus integrated endorectal--pelvic phased-array coils.

    Hedvig Hricak;Scott White;Daniel Vigneron;John Kurhanewicz

  • SEXTANT LOCALIZATION OF PROSTATE CANCER: COMPARISON OF SEXTANT BIOPSY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING WITH STEP SECTION HISTOLOGY

    A.E. Wefer;H. Hricak;D.B. Vigneron;F.V. Coakley

  • Prostate volumes defined by magnetic resonance imaging and computerized tomographic scans for three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy

    Mack Roach;Pamela Faillace-Akazawa;Christine Malfatti;John Holland

  • Prostate Cancer: Prediction of Extracapsular Extension with Endorectal MR Imaging and Three-dimensional Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging

    Kyle K. Yu;Juergen Scheidler;Hedvig Hricak;Daniel B. Vigneron

  • Peritoneal Metastases: Detection with Spiral CT in Patients with Ovarian Cancer

    Fergus V. Coakley;Patricia H. Choi;Christina A. Gougoutas;Bhavana Pothuri

  • Radiological Evaluation of Lymph Node Metastases in Patients With Cervical Cancer: A Meta-analysis

    Juergen Scheidler;Hedvig Hricak;Kyle K. Yu;Leslee Subak

  • Focal Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Critical Appraisal of Rationale and Modalities

    Scott E. Eggener;Peter T. Scardino;Peter R. Carroll;Michael J. Zelefsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter T. Scardino
Peter T. Scardino Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Charles B. Higgins
Charles B. Higgins University of California, San Francisco
Peter R. Carroll
Peter R. Carroll University of California, San Francisco
Emil A. Tanagho
Emil A. Tanagho University of California, San Francisco
Daniel B. Vigneron
Daniel B. Vigneron University of California, San Francisco
James A. Eastham
James A. Eastham Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dennis S. Chi
Dennis S. Chi Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John Kurhanewicz
John Kurhanewicz University of California, San Francisco
Victor E. Reuter
Victor E. Reuter Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael W. Kattan
Michael W. Kattan Cleveland Clinic

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