Summary
Kenji Hirata is a nuclear medicine physician and clinical professor at Hokkaido University Hospital who blends patient care, teaching, and AI-driven research in diagnostic imaging. With eight years post-academic experience and a background including a UCLA postdoc, he focuses on deep learning, radiomics, and computer-aided diagnosis to advance both nuclear medicine diagnosis and therapy. He leads translational projects that bridge clinical practice and computational methods, mentoring medical students and junior researchers as an associate professor. Based in Sapporo, he is notable for integrating advanced imaging analytics into routine nuclear medicine workflows, aiming to make AI tools clinically interpretable and actionable.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
医学博士, 核医学, 医学博士, 核医学 at 北海道大学
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at Hokkaido University
Japanese, English