Hung P. Do, PhD, MSEE
Senior MRI Physicist, Canon Medical Systems USA
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Expertise and Skills
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Physics, MRI Pulse Sequence Design, and Advanced Image Reconstruction
- Signal and Image Processing
- Design and execute scientific, FDA 510(k)-cleared, and hypothesis-driven research studies
- Applications of Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning to MRI, Medical Imaging, and Healthcare
- Clinical evaluations and translations of innovative imaging solutions into clinical practice
- End-to-end project management and multidisciplinary collaborations
- Fundamental and translational MRI research related to quantitative imaging, novel pulse sequence design, and advanced image reconstruction
- Programmable animation, data visualization, data analysis, and statistics using Python and R
- Bayesian methods and probabilistic programming for quantitative imaging with uncertainty quantification
- Mathematical modeling, numerical simulations, and optimization
- Automatic and reproducible pipelines for data curation, cleaning, and visualization, statistical analysis, and report/presentation generation using Git version control, Bash, Python, R, and related packages
- Operating Systems: Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows
- Programming Languages: Python, R, Matlab, Bash, EPIC (General Electric (GE) Healthcare's C-based MRI pulse sequence programming language)
- Packages and Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, PyDicom, SciPy, Matplotlib, Tidyverse, ggplot2, Seaborn, fastai, TensorFlow-Keras, PyTorch, nbdev
- Version Control: Git and GitHub
- Package and Environments Management: Anaconda and PyPI's pip
- Tools: Microsoft Office, Command Line (Terminal), Markdown, HTML, CSS, \( \LaTeX \), OsiriX, Visual Studio Code
Experience
- 2021 - present: Medical Affairs - Senior Clinical Scientist at Canon Medical Systems USA, Tustin, California
- 2017 - 2021: Medical Affairs - Clinical Scientist at Canon Medical Systems USA, Tustin, California
- 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Physics advised by Prof. Krishna Nayak at the Magnetic Resonance Engineering Lab in the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California
- 2010 - 2017: Graduate Research Assistant in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Physics advised by Prof. Krishna Nayak at the Magnetic Resonance Engineering Lab in the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California
- 2009: Postgraduate Diploma Research in Condensed Matter Physics advised by Prof. Sandro Scandolo at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
- 2007 - 2008: Researcher advised by Prof. Viet Nguyen at the Hanoi Institute of Physics (IOP), Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2006 - 2007: Undergraduate Thesis Research in Theoretical Physics advised by Prof. Viet Nguyen at the Hanoi Institute of Physics (IOP), Hanoi, Vietnam
Education
- 2017: Ph.D. in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Physics advised by Prof. Krishna Nayak, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California
- 2014: M.S. in Electrical Engineering advised by Prof. Krishna Nayak, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California
- 2009: Postgraduate Diploma in Condensed Matter Physics advised by Prof. Sandro Scandolo, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
- 2008: Master of Science Study in Theoretical Physics advised by Prof. Viet Nguyen (completed 1 of 2 years), Hanoi Institute of Physics (IOP), Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2007: B.S. in Theoretical Physics advised by Prof. Viet Nguyen, Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE), Hanoi, Vietnam
Honors and Awards
- 2016-2017: Dissertation Completion Fellowship from USC Graduate School, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- 2010-2012: Merit Fellowship from the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- 2009: Honor Award given to Student with the Highest Grade in Condensed Matter Physics Division from the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
- 2008-2009: Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
- 2007: Odon Vallet Scholarship from Recontres du Vietnam Association for Outstanding Undergraduate Students
- 2007: Scholarship to attend the European Summer School in Plasma Physics in Science and Technology (PPST), Greifswald, Germany
- 2005: Second Prize in the 9th Vietnamese National Physics Olympiad for Undergraduate Student with Merit Certificate given by Vietnam Minister of Education and Training
Certificates
- Neural Networks for Machine Learning, Prof. Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto
- Deep Learning, a 5-Course Specialization, Prof. Andrew Ng, deeplearning.ai and Stanford University
- Course 1: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- Course 2: Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyper-parameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
- Course 3: Structuring Machine Learning Projects
- Course 4: Convolutional Neural Networks
- Course 5: Sequence Models
- Machine Learning, Prof. Andrew Ng, Stanford University
- AI for Healthcare, a 5-Course Specialization, Profs. Nigam Shah, Laurence Baker, David Magnus, Serena Yeung, Mildred Cho, Steven Bagley, Matthew Lungren, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Stanford University
- Course 1: Introduction to Healthcare
- Course 2: Introduction to Clinical Data
- Course 3: Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Healthcare
- Course 4: Evaluations of AI applications in Healthcare
- Course 5: AI in Healthcare Capstone Projects
- AI for Medicine, a 3-Course Specialization, Pranav Rajpurkar PhD, Stanford University and deeplerning.ai
- Course 1: AI for Medical Diagnosis
- Course 2: AI for Medical Prognosis
- Course 3: AI for Medical Treatment
- Statistics with Python, a 3-Course Specialization, Brenda Gunderson PhD, Brady T. West PhD, Kerby Shedden PhD, University of Michigan
- Course 1: Understanding and Visualizing Data with Python
- Course 2: Inferential Statistical Analysis with Python
- Course 3: Fitting Statistical Models to Data with Python
- Data Science: Statistics and Machine Learning, a 5-Course Specialization, Profs. Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, Brian Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Course 1: Statistical Inference
- Course 2: Regression Model
- Course 3: Practical Machine Learning
- Course 4: Developing Data Products
- Course 5: Data Science Capstone Project
- Data Science: Foundations using R, a 5-Course Specialization, Profs. Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, Brian Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Course 1: The Data Scientist’s Toolbox
- Course 2: R Programming
- Course 3: Getting and Cleaning Data
- Course 4: Exploratory Data Analysis
- Course 5: Reproducible Research
- Improving your statistical inferences, Daniel Lakens PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Improving Your Statistical Questions, by Daniel Lakens PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology
Selected Publications
Full list of publications can be seen at Publications
Selected Peer-reviewed Journal Papers
- J Starekova, D Rutkowski, W Bae, HP Do, A Madhuranthakam, V Malis, S Lin, S Serai, T Yokoo, SB Reeder, JH Brittain, and D Hernando. "Multi‐Center, Multi‐Vendor Validation of Simultaneous MRI‐Based Proton Density Fat Fraction and R2* Mapping Using a Combined Proton Density Fat Fraction‐R2* Phantom." Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2025. PDF JRNL
- HP Do, CA Lockard, D Berkeley, B Tymkiw, N Dulude, S Tashman, G Gold, J Gross, E Kelly, and CP Ho. “Improved Resolution and Image Quality of Musculoskeletal Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Deep Learning-based Denoising Reconstruction: A Prospective Clinical Study.” Skeletal Radiology 2024. PDF JRNL
- HP Do, Y Guo, AJ Yoon, and KS Nayak. “Accuracy, Uncertainty, and Adaptability of Automatic Myocardial ASL Segmentation using Deep CNN.” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2020; 83:1863–1874. PDF JRNL
- HP Do, V Ramanan, X Qui, J Barry, GA Wright, NR Ghugre, KS Nayak. “Non-Contrast Assessment of Microvascular Integrity using Arterial Spin Labeled CMR in a Porcine Model of Acute Myocardial Infarction.” Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 20:45, July 2018. PDF JRNL
- HP Do, AJ Yoon, MW Fong, F Saremi, ML Barr, KS Nayak. “Double-gated Myocardial Arterial Spin Labeled Perfusion Imaging is Robust to Heart Rate Variation.” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 77(5):1975-1980, 2017. PDF JRNL
Selected Whitepapers
- Do, Hung P. and Berkeley, Dawn. “Advanced intelligent Clear-IQ Engine (AiCE) Deep Learning Reconstruction (DLR): Translating the Power of Deep Learning to MR Image Reconstruction.” Canon Medical Systems USA, 2020. PDF
- Do, Hung P. “Advanced intelligent Clear-IQ Engine (AiCE) Interpretable Model with Robust and Generalized Performance: Beyond Brain and Knee.” Canon Medical Systems USA, 2021. PDF
- Do, Hung P. “k-t SPEEDER: A reference-free parallel imaging method for fast dynamic MRI.” Canon Medical Systems USA, 2019. PDF
Selected Talks
Full list of talks can be seen at Talks
- HP Do, et al. "Accelerated 1.2-minute 4-echo UTE-based CT-like Imaging using CG-SENSE and Deep Learning-based Denoising Reconstruction (DLR).” International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting, Hawaii, May 2025. SLIDES-PDF VIDEO-YouTube
- HP Do, et al. "Accelerated 2-3-Minute Multi-echo Ultra-short Echo Time (mecho UTE) using Conjugate Gradient SENSE (CG-SENSE) Reconstruction.” The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Session, Chicago, Nov 2023. SLIDES-PDF VIDEO-YouTube
- HP Do, et al. "Eleven-minute Comprehensive MSK Imaging Using Deep Learning Reconstruction (DLR) and Multi-echo Ultrashort Echo-Time (UTE)." The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Session, Chicago, Nov 2022. SLIDES-PDF
- HP Do, et al. "dnoiseNET: Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Image Denoising." The ISMRM & SCMR Co-Provided Workshop on the Emerging Role of Machine Learning in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Seattle, Feb 2019. SLIDES-PDF
- HP Do, et al. "Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Segmentation of Myocardial ASL Short-Axis Data: Accuracy, Uncertainty, and Adaptability." The ISMRM Workshop on Machine Learning, Part II, Washington D.C., Oct 2018. SLIDES-PDF VIDEO-YouTube
Teaching and Training Experience
- 2017 - present: Distill MRI technical concepts into forms of case studies, white papers, and training lectures making them accessible to the sales and applications team at Canon Medical System USA, Tustin, California
- 2015 - 2017: MRI sequence design and MRI safety supervisor at the Magnetic Resonance Engineering Lab in the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California
- 2010 - 2017: Physics Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California
- 2006 - 2007: Practical Teacher Training at Truc Ninh High School in Spring 2006 & 2007 as part of the Physics Teacher Training Curriculum at the Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam
Peer Reviewer
- Reviewer for Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- Reviewer for Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
- Reviewer for ISMRM Annual Scientific Meetings
Membership
Interests
- Jogging, Hiking, Nature Walk
- Programming, Science, Technology
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