Hebert Alberto Vargas

13.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
211 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Hebert Alberto Vargas is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Hebert Alberto Vargas has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 93 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 49 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Hebert Alberto Vargas's work include Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (75 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (68 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (46 papers). Hebert Alberto Vargas is often cited by papers focused on Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (75 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (68 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (46 papers). Hebert Alberto Vargas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Hebert Alberto Vargas's co-authors include Hedvig Hricak, Evis Sala, Oğuz Akın, Chaya S. Moskowitz, Junting Zheng, Debra A. Goldman, James A. Eastham, Olivio F. Donati, Yousef Mazaheri and Sungmin Woo and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Hebert Alberto Vargas

202 papers receiving 7.7k citations

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Association of AR-V7 on Circulating Tumor Cells as a Treatment-Specific Biomarker With Outcomes and Survival in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

2016 461 citations Howard I. Scher, David Lu et al. profile →
Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Bladder Cancer: Development of VI-RADS (Vesical Imaging-Reporting And Data System)

2018 397 citations Valeria Panebianco, Jason A. Efstathiou et al. European Urology profile →
Haralick texture analysis of prostate MRI: utility for differentiating non-cancerous prostate from prostate cancer and differentiating prostate cancers with different Gleason scores

2015 321 citations Andreas G. Wibmer, Hedvig Hricak et al. European Radiology profile →
Updated prostate imaging reporting and data system (PIRADS v2) recommendations for the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer using multiparametric MRI: critical evaluation using whole-mount pathology as standard of reference

2015 259 citations Hebert Alberto Vargas, Chaya S. Moskowitz et al. European Radiology profile →

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Maria Picchio Italy

Kathryn Winter United States

Alvaro A. Martinez United States

Debra A. Goldman United States

William T. Sause United States

Nicole Ishill United States

Juanita Crook Canada

Ur Metser Canada

Ennapadam Venkatraman United States

Paolo Castellucci Italy

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656 ×0.7

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Mayerhoefer, Marius E., Andreas Kienzle, Sungmin Woo, & Hebert Alberto Vargas. (2025). Update on Liquid Biopsy. Radiology. 315(3). e241030–e241030. 2 indexed citations

Panebianco, Valeria, Alberto Briganti, Jason A. Efstathiou, et al.. (2025). Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Vesical Imaging-Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) for Bladder Cancer Diagnosis and Staging: A Guide for Clinicians from the American College of Radiology VI-RADS Steering Committee. European Urology.

Woo, Sungmin, Steven P. Rowe, Damiano Caruso, et al.. (2025). Navigating the Scoring Systems and Interpretation Frameworks of Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen PET. Radiology. 317(3). e250701–e250701.

Arita, Yuki, Sungmin Woo, Thomas C. Kwee, et al.. (2024). Pictorial review of multiparametric MRI in bladder urothelial carcinoma with variant histology: pearls and pitfalls. Abdominal Radiology. 49(8). 2797–2811. 9 indexed citations

Woo, Sungmin, Anton S. Becker, Soleen Ghafoor, et al.. (2024). Inguinal lymph node metastases from prostate cancer: clinical, pathology, and multimodality imaging considerations. Radiologia Brasileira. 57. e20240013–e20240013.

Woo, Sungmin, et al.. (2024). Utility of ADC Values for Differentiating Uterine Sarcomas From Leiomyomas: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Roentgenology. 223(3). e2431280–e2431280. 2 indexed citations

Woo, Sungmin, D. Freedman, Anton S. Becker, et al.. (2024). Equivocal bone lesions on PSMA PET/CT: systematic review and meta-analysis on their prevalence and malignancy rate. Clinical and Translational Imaging. 12(5). 485–500. 6 indexed citations

Becker, Anton S., Jeeban Paul Das, Sungmin Woo, Rocío Pérez-Johnston, & Hebert Alberto Vargas. (2023). Improving Radiology Oncologic Imaging Trainee Case Diversity through Automatic Examination Assignment: Retrospective Study from a Tertiary Cancer Center. Radiology Imaging Cancer. 5(6). e230035–e230035. 2 indexed citations

Wibmer, Andreas G., Paul C. Dinh, Lois B. Travis, et al.. (2022). Associations of Body Fat Distribution and Cardiometabolic Risk of Testicular Cancer Survivors After Cisplatin-Based Chemotherapy. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 6(4). 8 indexed citations

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Andrieu, Pamela Causa, Tae‐Hyung Kim, Natalie Gangai, et al.. (2022). Fat-containing adnexal masses on MRI: solid tissue volume and fat distribution as a guide for O-RADS Score assignment. Abdominal Radiology. 48(1). 358–366. 10 indexed citations

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Becker, Anton S., Rocío Pérez-Johnston, Sona A. Chikarmane, et al.. (2021). Multidisciplinary Recommendations Regarding Post-Vaccine Adenopathy and Radiologic Imaging: Radiology Scientific Expert Panel. Radiology. 300(2). E323–E327. 84 indexed citations

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Adib, Elio, Katarzyna Klonowska, Krinio Giannikou, et al.. (2021). Phase II Clinical Trial of Everolimus in a Pan-Cancer Cohort of Patients with mTOR Pathway Alterations. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(14). 3845–3853. 37 indexed citations

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Petralia, Giuseppe, Dow‐Mu Koh, Rosalind A. Eeles, et al.. (2021). Oncologically Relevant Findings Reporting and Data System (ONCO-RADS): Guidelines for the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Reporting of Whole-Body MRI for Cancer Screening. Radiology. 299(3). 494–507. 39 indexed citations

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Kim, Tae‐Hyung, Sungmin Woo, Sangwon Han, et al.. (2020). The Diagnostic Performance of the Length of Tumor Capsular Contact on MRI for Detecting Prostate Cancer Extraprostatic Extension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Korean Journal of Radiology. 21(6). 684–684. 28 indexed citations

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Pérez-López, Raquel, Nina Tunariu, Anwar R. Padhani, et al.. (2019). Imaging Diagnosis and Follow-up of Advanced Prostate Cancer: Clinical Perspectives and State of the Art. Radiology. 292(2). 273–286. 50 indexed citations

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Zakian, Kristen L., Andreas G. Wibmer, Hebert Alberto Vargas, et al.. (2019). Comparison of Motion-Insensitive T2-Weighted MRI Pulse Sequences for Visualization of the Prostatic Urethra During MR Simulation. Practical Radiation Oncology. 9(6). e534–e540. 15 indexed citations

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Scher, Howard I., Ryon P. Graf, Nicole A. Schreiber, et al.. (2017). Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Circulating Tumor Cells Informs Clinical Decisions between AR Signaling Inhibitors and Taxanes in Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Cancer Research. 77(20). 5687–5698. 94 indexed citations

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Vargas, Hebert Alberto, Harini Veeraraghavan, Maura Miccò, et al.. (2017). A novel representation of inter-site tumour heterogeneity from pre-treatment computed tomography textures classifies ovarian cancers by clinical outcome. European Radiology. 27(9). 3991–4001. 88 indexed citations

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Vargas, Hebert Alberto, Toshikazu Takeda, Renato B. Corradi, et al.. (2016). Localizing sites of disease in patients with rising serum prostate-specific antigen up to 1 ng/ml following prostatectomy: How much information can conventional imaging provide?. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 34(11). 482.e5–482.e10. 29 indexed citations

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Donati, Olivio F., Asim Afaq, Hebert Alberto Vargas, et al.. (2014). Prostate MRI: Evaluating Tumor Volume and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient as Surrogate Biomarkers for Predicting Tumor Gleason Score. Clinical Cancer Research. 20(14). 3705–3711. 65 indexed citations

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