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Hyeonhoon Lee

Seoul National University · Medicine

About the Lab

Professor Hyeonhoon Lee's research lab specializes in clinical artificial intelligence and biomedical data science, focusing on developing and validating machine learning models for critical healthcare applications such as early prediction of in-hospital cardiac arrest, radiogenomic biomarker discovery, and AI-driven clinical decision support. The lab emphasizes real-world applicability through large-scale, multicenter datasets and rigorous external validation, particularly in neurology, perioperative medicine, and immune-mediated diseases. It also pioneers interpretable AI solutions, including NLP-based chatbots for specialty triage and foundation models tailored for medical accuracy and uncertainty calibration.

clinical AIradiogenomicsmedical foundation modelspredictive analyticsperioperative data science

Research Overview

Papers
54
Total Citations
637
Papers (5y)
44
Primary Field
Medicine

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
44total
2022
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Citations per year (5y)
439total
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Selected Papers

15
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Preprint|100 citations·2025
Medical Hallucination in Foundation Models and Their Impact on Healthcare
Yubin Kim, Hyewon Jeong, Shan Chen, Shuyue Stella Li, Chanwoo Park, Mingyu Lu, Kumail Alhamoud, Jimin Mun, Cristina Grau, Myung-Kyo Jung, Rodrigo Rosa Gameiro, Lizhou Fan
medRxivOA

Hallucinations in foundation models arise from autoregressive training objectives that prioritize token-likelihood optimization over epistemic accuracy, fostering overconfidence and poorly calibrated uncertainty. We define medical hallucination as any model-generated output that is factually incorrect, logically inconsistent, or unsupported by authoritative clinical evidence in ways that could alter clinical decisions. We evaluated 11 foundation models (7 general-purpose, 4 medical-specialized)

PhilosophyArts and Humanities
2
Article|67 citations·2023
Real-time machine learning model to predict in-hospital cardiac arrest using heart rate variability in ICU
Hyeonhoon Lee, Hyun-Lim Yang, Ho Geol Ryu, Chul-Woo Jung, Youn Joung Cho, Soo Bin Yoon, Hyun‐Kyu Yoon, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Hyung‐Chul Lee
SJR Q1npj Digital MedicineOA

Predicting in-hospital cardiac arrest in patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) allows prompt interventions to improve patient outcomes. We developed and validated a machine learning-based real-time model for in-hospital cardiac arrest predictions using electrocardiogram (ECG)-based heart rate variability (HRV) measures. The HRV measures, including time/frequency domains and nonlinear measures, were calculated from 5 min epochs of ECG signals from ICU patients. A light gradient boosti

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineMedicine
3
Article|49 citations·2015
Casticin, an active compound isolated from Vitex Fructus, ameliorates the cigarette smoke-induced acute lung inflammatory response in a murine model
Hyeonhoon Lee, Kyung‐Hwa Jung, Han‐Gyul Lee, Soojin Park, Woo‐Sung Choi, Hyunsu Bae
SJR Q1International Immunopharmacology
Plant ScienceAgricultural and Biological Sciences
4
Article|46 citations·2024
INSPIRE, a publicly available research dataset for perioperative medicine
Leerang Lim, Hyeonhoon Lee, Chul-Woo Jung, Dayeon Sim, X. Borrat, Tom Pollard, Leo Anthony Celi, Roger G. Mark, Simon Tilma Vistisen, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Hyung‐Chul Lee
SJR Q1Scientific DataOA

We present the INSPIRE dataset, a publicly available research dataset in perioperative medicine, which includes approximately 130,000 surgical operations at an academic institution in South Korea over a ten-year period between 2011 and 2020. This comprehensive dataset includes patient characteristics such as age, sex, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification, diagnosis, surgical procedure code, department, and type of anaesthesia. The dataset also includes vital signs

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineMedicine
5
Article|45 citations·2021
Medical Specialty Recommendations by an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot on a Smartphone: Development and Deployment
Hyeonhoon Lee, Jae-Hyun Kang, Jonghyeon Yeo
SJR Q1Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOA

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has limited daily activities and even contact between patients and primary care providers. This makes it more difficult to provide adequate primary care services, which include connecting patients to an appropriate medical specialist. A smartphone-compatible artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that classifies patients’ symptoms and recommends the appropriate medical specialty could provide a valuable solution. Objective In order to establish a contactless method

Health InformaticsMedicine
6
Article|45 citations·2015
Bee venom phospholipase A2 suppresses allergic airway inflammation in an ovalbumin‐induced asthma model through the induction of regulatory T cells
Soojin Park, Hyunjung Baek, Kyung‐Hwa Jung, Gihyun Lee, Hyeonhoon Lee, Geun‐Hyung Kang, Gyeseok Lee, Hyunsu Bae
SJR Q3Immunity Inflammation and DiseaseOA

Bee venom (BV) is one of the alternative medicines that have been widely used in the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. We previously demonstrated that BV induces immune tolerance by increasing the population of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in immune disorders. However, the major component and how it regulates the immune response have not been elucidated. We investigated whether bee venom phospholipase A2 (bvPLA2) exerts protective effects that are mediated via Tregs in OVA-induced asthma

PharmacologyMedicine
7
Article|43 citations·2022
Validation of MRI-Based Models to Predict MGMT Promoter Methylation in Gliomas: BraTS 2021 Radiogenomics Challenge
Byung-Hoon Kim, Hyeonhoon Lee, Kyu Sung Choi, Ju Gang Nam, Chul‐Kee Park, Sung‐Hye Park, Jin Wook Chung, Seung Hong Choi
SJR Q1CancersOA

O6-methylguanine-DNA methyl transferase (MGMT) methylation prediction models were developed using only small datasets without proper external validation and achieved good diagnostic performance, which seems to indicate a promising future for radiogenomics. However, the diagnostic performance was not reproducible for numerous research teams when using a larger dataset in the RSNA-MICCAI Brain Tumor Radiogenomic Classification 2021 challenge. To our knowledge, there has been no study regarding the

GeneticsMedicine
8
Article|26 citations·2017
Curcumin attenuates the scurfy-induced immune disorder, a model of IPEX syndrome, with inhibiting Th1/Th2/Th17 responses in mice
Gihyun Lee, Hwan‐Suck Chung, Kyeseok Lee, Hyeonhoon Lee, Min Hwan Kim, Hyunsu Bae
SJR Q1Phytomedicine
Pathology and Forensic MedicineMedicine
9
Article|25 citations·2014
Inhibitory effects of Stemona tuberosa on lung inflammation in a subacute cigarette smoke-induced mouse model
Hyeonhoon Lee, Kyung-Hwa Jung, Soojin Park, Yun-Seo Kil, Eun Young Chung, Young Pyo Jang, Eun Kyoung Seo, Hyunsu Bae
BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineOA

BACKGROUND: Stemona tuberosa has long been used in Korean and Chinese medicine to ameliorate various lung diseases such as pneumonia and bronchitis. However, it has not yet been proven that Stemona tuberosa has positive effects on lung inflammation. METHODS: Stemona tuberosa extract (ST) was orally administered to C57BL/6 mice 2 hr before exposure to CS for 2 weeks. Twenty-four hours after the last CS exposure, mice were sacrificed to investigate the changes in the expression of cytokines such a

Organic ChemistryChemistry
10
Article|24 citations·2023
Using ChatGPT as a Learning Tool in Acupuncture Education: Comparative Study
Hyeonhoon Lee
SJR Q1JMIR Medical EducationOA

BACKGROUND: ChatGPT (Open AI) is a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence model with potential applications in the medical fields of clinical practice, research, and education. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the potential of ChatGPT as an educational tool in college acupuncture programs, focusing on its ability to support students in learning acupuncture point selection, treatment planning, and decision-making. METHODS: We collected case studies published in Acupuncture in Medicine be

Health InformaticsMedicine
11
Article|16 citations·2023
Development and validation of a reinforcement learning model for ventilation control during emergence from general anesthesia
Hyeonhoon Lee, Hyun‐Kyu Yoon, Jae-Won Kim, Ji Soo Park, Chang‐Hoon Koo, Dongwook Won, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Hyung‐Chul Lee
SJR Q1npj Digital MedicineOA

Ventilation should be assisted without asynchrony or cardiorespiratory instability during anesthesia emergence until sufficient spontaneous ventilation is recovered. In this multicenter cohort study, we develop and validate a reinforcement learning-based Artificial Intelligence model for Ventilation control during Emergence (AIVE) from general anesthesia. Ventilatory and hemodynamic parameters from 14,306 surgical cases at an academic hospital between 2016 and 2019 are used for training and inte

Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMedicine
12
Article|11 citations·2024
Comparison of NLP machine learning models with human physicians for ASA Physical Status classification
Soo Bin Yoon, Jipyeong Lee, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Chul-Woo Jung, Hyeonhoon Lee, Hyeonhoon Lee, Hyeonhoon Lee
SJR Q1npj Digital MedicineOA

The American Society of Anesthesiologist's Physical Status (ASA-PS) classification system assesses comorbidities before sedation and analgesia, but inconsistencies among raters have hindered its objective use. This study aimed to develop natural language processing (NLP) models to classify ASA-PS using pre-anesthesia evaluation summaries, comparing their performance to human physicians. Data from 717,389 surgical cases in a tertiary hospital (October 2004-May 2023) was split into training, tunin

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineMedicine
13
Article|10 citations·2024
Reinforcement learning model for optimizing dexmedetomidine dosing to prevent delirium in critically ill patients
Hong Yeul Lee, Hong Yeul Lee, Dongwoo Hyeon, Hyun-Lim Yang, Hyung‐Chul Lee, Ho Geol Ryu, Hyeonhoon Lee, Ho Geol Ryu, Hyeonhoon Lee, Hyeonhoon Lee
SJR Q1npj Digital MedicineOA

Delirium can result in undesirable outcomes including increased length of stays and mortality in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Dexmedetomidine has emerged for delirium prevention in these patients; however, optimal dosing is challenging. A reinforcement learning-based Artificial Intelligence model for Delirium prevention (AID) is proposed to optimize dexmedetomidine dosing. The model was developed and internally validated using 2416 patients (2531 ICU admissions) and extern

Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineMedicine
14
Article|9 citations·2022
Deep autoencoder-powered pattern identification of sleep disturbance using multi-site cross-sectional survey data
Hyeonhoon Lee, Yujin Choi, Byunwoo Son, Jinwoong Lim, Seunghoon Lee, Jung Won Kang, Kun Hyung Kim, Eun‐Jung Kim, Changsop Yang, Jae-Dong Lee
SJR Q1Frontiers in MedicineOA

Pattern identification (PI) is a diagnostic method used in Traditional East Asian medicine (TEAM) to select appropriate and personalized acupuncture points and herbal medicines for individual patients. Developing a reproducible PI model using clinical information is important as it would reflect the actual clinical setting and improve the effectiveness of TEAM treatment. In this paper, we suggest a novel deep learning-based PI model with feature extraction using a deep autoencoder and k -means c

Complementary and alternative medicineMedicine
15
Article|5 citations·2025
Multimodal deep learning to predict postoperative major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events after noncardiac surgery
Hyun‐Kyu Yoon, Jang Ho Ahn, Byeol Yi Kim, Hyeonhoon Lee, Woo-Young Jo, Soo‐Hyuk Yoon, Hee‐Pyoung Park, Hyung‐Chul Lee
SJR Q1International Journal of SurgeryOA

BACKGROUND: Major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) after noncardiac surgery can lead to substantial morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. Therefore, accurate and rapid risk prediction is crucial for targeted perioperative management. This study aimed to develop and validate a minimally burdensome multimodal deep learning model integrating demographic data, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 procedure codes, and raw preoperative 12-lead electroc

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineMedicine

Research Areas

Health InformaticsCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePharmacologyInformation Systems and ManagementPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

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