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Hiroki Shirato

Hiroki Shirato

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Medicine

D-Index
91
Citations
35993
World Ranking
11627
National Ranking
343

Overview

Hiroki Shirato is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and physics and astronomy, with a focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, radiation, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

Their research covers advanced radiotherapy techniques, radiation therapy and dosimetry, lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, circadian rhythm and melatonin, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, management of metastatic bone disease, and medical imaging techniques and applications.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Shinichi Shimizu, Seishin Takao, Naoki Miyamoto, Taeko Matsuura, and Hiroshi Taguchi.

They have published in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Radiation Research
  • Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Advances in Radiation Oncology
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Selected recent papers by Hiroki Shirato encompass:

  • Radiological tumour classification across imaging modality and histology, 2021, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Lysosomal trafficking mediated by Arl8b and BORC promotes invasion of cancer cells that survive radiation, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Potential benefits of adaptive intensity-modulated proton therapy in nasopharyngeal carcinomas, 2020, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
  • Individualized Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors, 2023, JAMA Oncology
  • Fast spot-scanning proton dose calculation method with uncertainty quantification using a three-dimensional convolutional neural network, 2020, Physics in Medicine and Biology

Throughout their career, Hiroki Shirato has concentrated on topics bridging clinical approaches and technical advances in radiotherapy and imaging, integrating machine learning and dosimetric quantification methods.

Best Publications

  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery Plus Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy vs Stereotactic Radiosurgery Alone for Treatment of Brain Metastases: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Hidefumi Aoyama;Hiroki Shirato;Masao Tago;Keiichi Nakagawa

  • Precise and real-time measurement of 3D tumor motion in lung due to breathing and heartbeat, measured during radiotherapy.

    Yvette Seppenwoolde;Hiroki Shirato;Kei Kitamura;Shinichi Shimizu

  • Hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HypoFXSRT) for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: updated results of 257 patients in a Japanese multi-institutional study.

    Hiroshi Onishi;Hiroki Shirato;Yasushi Nagata;Masahiro Hiraoka

  • Stereotactic hypofractionated high-dose irradiation for stage I nonsmall cell lung carcinoma: clinical outcomes in 245 subjects in a Japanese multiinstitutional study.

    Hiroshi Onishi;Tsutomu Araki;Hiroki Shirato;Yasushi Nagata

  • Physical aspects of a real-time tumor-tracking system for gated radiotherapy

    Hiroki Shirato;Shinichi Shimizu;Tatsuya Kunieda;Kei Kitamura

  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for operable Stage i non-small-cell lung cancer: Can SBRT be comparable to surgery?

    Hiroshi Onishi;Hiroki Shirato;Yasushi Nagata;Masahiro Hiraoka

  • The management of imaging dose during image-guided radiotherapy: Report of the AAPM Task Group 75

    Martin J. Murphy;James Balter;Stephen Balter;Jose A. Bencomo

  • Four-dimensional treatment planning and fluoroscopic real-time tumor tracking radiotherapy for moving tumor.

    Hiroki Shirato;Shinichi Shimizu;Kei Kitamura;Takeshi Nishioka

  • Neurocognitive Function of Patients with Brain Metastasis Who Received Either Whole Brain Radiotherapy Plus Stereotactic Radiosurgery or Radiosurgery Alone

    Hidefumi Aoyama;Masao Tago;Norio Kato;Tatsuya Toyoda

  • Prediction of respiratory tumour motion for real-time image-guided radiotherapy

    Gregory C Sharp;Steve B Jiang;Shinichi Shimizu;Hiroki Shirato

  • Intrafractional tumor motion: lung and liver.

    Hiroki Shirato;Yvette Seppenwoolde;Kei Kitamura;Rikiya Onimura

  • Feasibility of insertion/implantation of 2.0-mm-diameter gold internal fiducial markers for precise setup and real-time tumor tracking in radiotherapy.

    Hiroki Shirato;Toshiyuki Harada;Tooru Harabayashi;Kazutoshi Hida

  • Detection of lung tumor movement in real-time tumor-tracking radiotherapy

    Shinichi Shimizu;Hiroki Shirato;Shigeaki Ogura;Hirotoshi Akita-Dosaka

  • Differences in CT perfusion maps generated by different commercial software: quantitative analysis by using identical source data of acute stroke patients.

    Kohsuke Kudo;Makoto Sasaki;Kei Yamada;Suketaka Momoshima

  • Impact of respiratory movement on the computed tomographic images of small lung tumors in three-dimensional (3D) radiotherapy.

    Shinichi Shimizu;Hiroki Shirato;Kenji Kagei;Takeshi Nishioka

  • Accuracy of tumor motion compensation algorithm from a robotic respiratory tracking system: a simulation study.

    Yvette Seppenwoolde;Ross I. Berbeco;Seiko Nishioka;Hiroki Shirato

  • Residual motion of lung tumours in gated radiotherapy with external respiratory surrogates.

    Ross I Berbeco;Seiko Nishioka;Hiroki Shirato;George T Y Chen

  • Image fusion between 18FDG-PET and MRI/CT for radiotherapy planning of oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal carcinomas.

    Takeshi Nishioka;Tohru Shiga;Hiroki Shirato;Eriko Tsukamoto

  • Real-time tumour-tracking radiotherapy

    Hiroki Shirato;Shinichi Shimizu;Tadashi Shimizu;Takeshi Nishioka

  • Tolerance of organs at risk in small-volume, hypofractionated, image-guided radiotherapy for primary and metastatic lung cancers.

    Rikiya Onimaru;Hiroki Shirato;Shinichi Shimizu;Kei Kitamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Nagara Tamaki
Nagara Tamaki Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Lei Xing
Lei Xing Stanford University
Steve B Jiang
Steve B Jiang The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Masahiro Hiraoka
Masahiro Hiraoka Kyoto University
Gregory C. Sharp
Gregory C. Sharp Harvard University
Masaharu Nishimura
Masaharu Nishimura Hokkaido University
Hiroshi Abe
Hiroshi Abe Nagoya University
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Takashi Hashimoto
Takashi Hashimoto Osaka Metropolitan University

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