Sungmin Woo

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
143 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Sungmin Woo is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Sungmin Woo has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 61 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 41 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Sungmin Woo's work include Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (43 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (35 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (28 papers). Sungmin Woo is often cited by papers focused on Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (43 papers), Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (35 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (28 papers). Sungmin Woo collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Ethiopia. Sungmin Woo's co-authors include Jeong Yeon Cho, Sang Youn Kim, Seung Hyup Kim, Chong Hyun Suh, Sangwon Han, Yeon Joo Kim, Hebert Alberto Vargas, Hedvig Hricak, Jeong Min Lee and Byung Ihn Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Radiology and The Lancet Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Sungmin Woo

135 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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, Sungmin Woo et al. European Radiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sungmin Woo South Korea	34	2.2k	1.8k	838	472	401	143	3.9k
Chan Kyo Kim South Korea	44	2.7k 1.3×	2.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.5×	609 1.3×	384 1.0×	199	5.7k
Ur Metser Canada	40	2.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	311 0.7×	1.3k 3.4×	220	5.6k
Marisa Kollmeier United States	38	3.6k 1.7×	794 0.4×	800 1.0×	409 0.9×	416 1.0×	156	4.6k
Frederik De Keyzer Belgium	46	1.4k 0.6×	4.6k 2.6×	1.2k 1.4×	201 0.4×	605 1.5×	132	6.4k
Michaël Soussan France	31	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	583 0.7×	437 0.9×	677 1.7×	98	4.0k
Haesun Choi United States	30	2.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 2.1×	527 1.1×	1.1k 2.7×	79	5.2k
Richard K. Valicenti United States	36	4.6k 2.1×	1.0k 0.6×	898 1.1×	577 1.2×	554 1.4×	133	5.6k
Gert De Meerleer Belgium	35	4.4k 2.0×	1.8k 1.0×	839 1.0×	412 0.9×	724 1.8×	168	5.5k
Byung Kwan Park South Korea	40	2.7k 1.2×	2.6k 1.4×	992 1.2×	517 1.1×	160 0.4×	185	4.9k
Sree Harsha Tirumani United States	34	1.5k 0.7×	704 0.4×	897 1.1×	472 1.0×	1.5k 3.8×	181	3.7k

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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.

Vargas, Hebert Alberto, Stefano Fanti, Ken Herrmann, et al.. (2025). PSMA PET/CT Reporting: Real-Life Inconsistencies, Heterogeneity, and Underutilization of Scoring Systems and Interpretation Frameworks. Radiology. 317(1). e250702–e250702. 1 indexed citations

Woo, Sungmin, Samuel J. Withey, Roberto García‐Figueiras, et al.. (2025). ESUR: Opportunities for PSMA-PET/CT and whole-body MRI in advanced prostate cancer. European Radiology.

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

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Andrieu, Pamela Causa, Sungmin Woo, Junting Zheng, et al.. (2024). The Prevalence and Radiologic Features of Renal Cancers Associated with FLCN, BAP1, SDH, and MET Germline Mutations. Radiology Imaging Cancer. 6(2). e230063–e230063. 4 indexed citations

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Park, Sung Yoon, Sungmin Woo, Kye Jin Park, & Antonio C. Westphalen. (2024). A pictorial essay of PI-RADS pearls and pitfalls: toward less ambiguity and better practice. Abdominal Radiology. 49(9). 3190–3205. 2 indexed citations

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Balasubramanian, Adithya, Sungmin Woo, Hebert Alberto Vargas, et al.. (2024). Deep Learning Prostate MRI Segmentation Accuracy and Robustness: A Systematic Review. Radiology Artificial Intelligence. 6(4). e230138–e230138. 11 indexed citations

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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

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Becker, Anton S., Francesco Giganti, Andrei S. Purysko, et al.. (2023). Taking PI-QUAL beyond the prostate: Towards a standardized radiological image quality score (RI-QUAL). European Journal of Radiology. 165. 110955–110955. 6 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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Yıldırım, Onur, et al.. (2022). The role of MRI in prostate cancer: current and future directions. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine. 35(4). 503–521. 25 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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Woo, Sungmin, Chong Hyun Suh, Sang Youn Kim, Jeong Yeon Cho, & Seung Hyup Kim. (2017). Diagnostic Performance of Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System Version 2 for Detection of Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic Meta-analysis. European Urology. 72(2). 177–188. 233 indexed citations

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Woo, Sungmin, et al.. (2015). Exophytic renal angiomyolipoma and perirenal liposarcoma: revisiting the role of CT for differential diagnosis. Acta Radiologica. 57(2). 249–255. 4 indexed citations

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Woo, Sungmin, et al.. (2014). Shear wave elastography assessment in the prostate: an intraobserver reproducibility study. Clinical Imaging. 39(3). 484–487. 37 indexed citations

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