Hossam Zaki

Publications

Peer-reviewed work across four research lines — radiology AI, imaging, clinical-trial NLP, and structural biology. Full, continuously updated list on Google Scholar.

LLM clinical evaluation

Retrieval-augmented generation for periprocedural anticoagulation management in interventional radiology
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR) · 2026 · flagship
An open-source large language model for predicting CPT codes from interventional radiology operative notes
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) · 2026
ChatGPT versus breast radiologists on ACR appropriateness criteria
Academic Radiology · 2026
ChatGPT and the readability of interventional radiology procedure information
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR) · 2024 · first author
Large language models for radiologic decision-making across ACR appropriateness panels
Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) · 2024 · first author
Large language models to predict neuroimaging appropriateness
Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) · 2023

Image-guided ablation & imaging AI

Deep-learning segmentation and radiomics for predicting lung ablation outcomes
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR) · 2025 · first author
Counterfactual bidirectional co-attention transformer for integrating histology and genomics
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI) · 2025
Advancing AI for lung-cancer immunotherapy complications (editorial)
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics · 2025
Radiomics feature selection for predicting TACE response in hepatocellular carcinoma
Meta-Radiology · 2024

Medical education

An LLM pipeline for neurology education: a randomized controlled trial
AAN 2026 abstract · full manuscript in preparation · with J. Khurana (Dendro)

Clinical-trial NLP

Semantic categorization of dermatology trials via cosine similarity
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) · 2025
Characterizing dermatology trials via TF-IDF and K-means clustering
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) · 2024

Structural & developmental biology

PDBe: improved findability of macromolecular structure data
Nucleic Acids Research · 2020 · highest-cited (262)
Identifying and characterizing protein conformational states in the PDB
Structural Dynamics · 2024
Automated pipeline for comparing PDB and AlphaFold2 conformational states
bioRxiv · 2023 · preprint
Review of asteroid biology and sea star wasting disease
The Biological Bulletin · 2022 · cited 44
Single-cell RNA sequencing of early sea star development
Development · 2022
Germ cell factor regulation for inductive germ cell fate
bioRxiv · 2022 · preprint
Aqueous oxidation of benzyl alcohols with DBDMH and cyclodextrin
Synthetic Communications · 2016 · earliest publication

Innovation

FibroSense — Finalist, 2025 SIR Medical Student BioDesign Competition
An LLM to identify patients whose fibroids could be treated with uterine fibroid embolization — alerting patient, OB-GYN, and interventional radiologist to expand access and reduce care disparities. With students from Hofstra, UCLA, and Case Western.

Honors & awards

  • Rhode Island Radiological Society Award2026
  • Students on Stage Presenter, CIRSE2026
  • Medical Student Scholar, Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)2024
  • IO Essentials Scholar, Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO)2024
  • Medical Student Grant, RSNA2023
  • Dr. & Mrs. W.C. Culp Medical Student Grant, SIR2023
  • Pipeline Initiative for Enrichment in Radiology (PIER) Scholar, ACR2023
  • Goldwater Scholarship2021
  • Brown University Undergraduate Teaching & Research Award (UTRA)2021
  • GE Lloyd Trotter Award2021

Press

Hossam Zaki: Innovating medical care through artificial intelligence — Brown University, 2021.