Charles Tseng-Chun Lau

Title(s)HS Associate Clinical Professor, Radiological Sciences
SchoolMedicine
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    University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NYBS06/1996Chemical Engineering
    University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NYMD06/2000Medicine
    Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MAInternship06/2001Internal Medicine
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAResidency06/2005Diagnostic Radiology
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAChief Resident02/2005Diagnostic Radiology
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAFellow06/2006Vascular & Interventional Radiology
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAFellow06/2009Cardiothoracic Imaging
    Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OHMBA12/2011Business Administration
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    UCLA Radiological Sciences2023  - 2024Outstanding Affiliate Faculty Teaching Award
    UCLA Radiological Sciences2020  - 2021Outstanding Affiliate Faculty Teaching Award
    Society of Thoracic Radiology2020President’s Award for Outstanding Service and Leadership
    Stanford University2018  - 2019Radiology Teacher of the Year Award (Mid-Level Faculty)
    Stanford University2017  - 2018Radiology Teacher of the Year Award (Mid-Level Faculty)
    Stanford University2016  - 2017Radiology Teacher of the Year Award (Mid-Level Faculty)
    Stanford University2015  - 2016Radiology Teacher of the Year Award (Junior Faculty)
    Stanford University2014  - 2015Radiology Teacher of the Year Award (Junior Faculty)
    Cleveland Clinic2011  - 2012Norman Glazer Award for Excellence in Teaching in Diagnostic Radiology
    University of Pennsylvania2004  - 2005Baum-Laufer Award for Excellence in Service to the Penn Radiology Residency
    Brigham & Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School2000  - 2001Arnold Dunne Award for Extraordinary Care and Caring for Patients

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    Charles Lau is a cardiothoracic radiologist at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and has worked on assignment at Google since 2019 in Artificial Intelligence. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an active iOS app developer with experience in Objective-C & Swift and a strong interest in UX/UI. Dr. Lau earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University at Buffalo and began his medical career as an interventional radiologist on the faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

    

Dr. Lau is strongly committed to safeguarding the long-term viability and health of the radiology profession through the development of groundbreaking assistive technologies and the adaptation of best practices from the restaurant and commercial aviation industries.



    Dr. Lau is the recipient of multiple teaching awards at Cleveland Clinic and Stanford University, and previously served as Chief of Thoracic Imaging at Cleveland Clinic and Director of Diagnostic Radiology at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System.

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    1. Prospective Multi-Site Validation of AI to Detect Tuberculosis and Chest X-Ray Abnormalities. NEJM AI. 2024 Oct; 1(10). Kazemzadeh S, Kiraly AP, Nabulsi Z, Sanjase N, Maimbolwa M, Shuma B, Jamshy S, Chen C, Agharwal A, Lau CT, Sellergren A, Golden D, Yu J, Wu E, Matias Y, Chou K, Corrado GS, Shetty S, Tse D, Eswaran K, Liu Y, Pilgrim R, Muyoyeta M, Prabhakara S. PMID: 39823016; PMCID: PMC11737584.
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    2. Assistive AI in Lung Cancer Screening: A Retrospective Multinational Study in the United States and Japan. Radiol Artif Intell. 2024 05; 6(3):e230079. Kiraly AP, Cunningham CA, Najafi R, Nabulsi Z, Yang J, Lau C, Ledsam JR, Ye W, Ardila D, McKinney SM, Pilgrim R, Liu Y, Saito H, Shimamura Y, Etemadi M, Melnick D, Jansen S, Corrado GS, Peng L, Tse D, Shetty S, Prabhakara S, Naidich DP, Beladia N, Eswaran K. PMID: 38477661; PMCID: PMC11140517.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    3. Using generative AI to investigate medical imagery models and datasets. EBioMedicine. 2024 Apr; 102:105075. Lang O, Yaya-Stupp D, Traynis I, Cole-Lewis H, Bennett CR, Lyles CR, Lau C, Irani M, Semturs C, Webster DR, Corrado GS, Hassidim A, Matias Y, Liu Y, Hammel N, Babenko B. PMID: 38565004; PMCID: PMC10993140.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 5     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    4. An intentional approach to managing bias in general purpose embedding models. Lancet Digit Health. 2024 02; 6(2):e126-e130. Weng WH, Sellergen A, Kiraly AP, D'Amour A, Park J, Pilgrim R, Pfohl S, Lau C, Natarajan V, Azizi S, Karthikesalingam A, Cole-Lewis H, Matias Y, Corrado GS, Webster DR, Shetty S, Prabhakara S, Eswaran K, Celi LAG, Liu Y. PMID: 38278614.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    5. A mobile-optimized artificial intelligence system for gestational age and fetal malpresentation assessment. Commun Med (Lond). 2022; 2:128. Gomes RG, Vwalika B, Lee C, Willis A, Sieniek M, Price JT, Chen C, Kasaro MP, Taylor JA, Stringer EM, McKinney SM, Sindano N, Dahl GE, Goodnight W, Gilmer J, Chi BH, Lau C, Spitz T, Saensuksopa T, Liu K, Tiyasirichokchai T, Wong J, Pilgrim R, Uddin A, Corrado G, Peng L, Chou K, Tse D, Stringer JSA, Shetty S. PMID: 36249461; PMCID: PMC9553916.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 6  
    6. Deep Learning Detection of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis at Chest Radiography Matched the Clinical Performance of Radiologists. Radiology. 2023 01; 306(1):124-137. Kazemzadeh S, Yu J, Jamshy S, Pilgrim R, Nabulsi Z, Chen C, Beladia N, Lau C, McKinney SM, Hughes T, Kiraly AP, Kalidindi SR, Muyoyeta M, Malemela J, Shih T, Corrado GS, Peng L, Chou K, Chen PC, Liu Y, Eswaran K, Tse D, Shetty S, Prabhakara S. PMID: 36066366.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 15     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    7. Simplified Transfer Learning for Chest Radiography Models Using Less Data. Radiology. 2022 11; 305(2):454-465. Sellergren AB, Chen C, Nabulsi Z, Li Y, Maschinot A, Sarna A, Huang J, Lau C, Kalidindi SR, Etemadi M, Garcia-Vicente F, Melnick D, Liu Y, Eswaran K, Tse D, Beladia N, Krishnan D, Shetty S. PMID: 35852426.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 9     Fields:    Translation:HumansPHPublic Health
    8. Deep learning for distinguishing normal versus abnormal chest radiographs and generalization to two unseen diseases tuberculosis and COVID-19. Sci Rep. 2021 09 01; 11(1):15523. Nabulsi Z, Sellergren A, Jamshy S, Lau C, Santos E, Kiraly AP, Ye W, Yang J, Pilgrim R, Kazemzadeh S, Yu J, Kalidindi SR, Etemadi M, Garcia-Vicente F, Melnick D, Corrado GS, Peng L, Eswaran K, Tse D, Beladia N, Liu Y, Chen PC, Shetty S. PMID: 34471144; PMCID: PMC8410908.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    9. Radiologic review of acquired pulmonary vein stenosis in adults. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther. 2018 Jun; 8(3):387-398. Galizia M, Renapurkar R, Prieto L, Bolen M, Azok J, Lau CT, El-Sherief AH. PMID: 30057885; PMCID: PMC6039802.
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    10. Staging Lung Cancer: Regional Lymph Node Classification. Radiol Clin North Am. 2018 May; 56(3):399-409. El-Sherief AH, Lau CT, Carter BW, Wu CC. PMID: 29622075.
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    11. Response. Chest. 2017 12; 152(6):1355-1356. El-Sherief AH, Lau CT, Obuchowski NA, Mehta AC, Rice TW, Blackstone EH. PMID: 29223269.
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    12. Electromagnetic Navigational Bronchoscopy versus CT-guided Percutaneous Sampling of Peripheral Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules: A Cohort Study. Radiology. 2018 03; 286(3):1052-1061. Bhatt KM, Tandon YK, Graham R, Lau CT, Lempel JK, Azok JT, Mazzone PJ, Schneider E, Obuchowski NA, Bolen MA. PMID: 29156147.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 23     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    13. Imaging in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. J Thorac Imaging. 2017 Mar; 32(2):71-88. Renapurkar RD, Shrikanthan S, Heresi GA, Lau CT, Gopalan D. PMID: 28060193.
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    14. Predictive radiogenomics modeling of EGFR mutation status in lung cancer. Sci Rep. 2017 01 31; 7:41674. Gevaert O, Echegaray S, Khuong A, Hoang CD, Shrager JB, Jensen KC, Berry GJ, Guo HH, Lau C, Plevritis SK, Rubin DL, Napel S, Leung AN. PMID: 28139704; PMCID: PMC5282551.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 72     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Lymph Node Classification in Lung Cancer on CT Scanning. Chest. 2017 04; 151(4):776-785. El-Sherief AH, Lau CT, Obuchowski NA, Mehta AC, Rice TW, Blackstone EH. PMID: 27713056.
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    16. Historical Evolution of Imaging Techniques for the Evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism. Radiographics. 2015 Jul-Aug; 35(4):1245-62. Yazdani M, Lau CT, Lempel JK, Yadav R, El-Sherief AH, Azok JT, Renapurkar RD. PMID: 26172362.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    17. Building a bridge to save a failing ventricle: radiologic evaluation of short- and long-term cardiac assist devices. Radiographics. 2015 Mar-Apr; 35(2):327-56. Mohamed I, Lau CT, Bolen MA, El-Sherief AH, Azok JT, Karimov JH, Moazami N, Renapurkar RD. PMID: 25763721.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    18. International association for the study of lung cancer (IASLC) lymph node map: radiologic review with CT illustration. Radiographics. 2014 Oct; 34(6):1680-91. El-Sherief AH, Lau CT, Wu CC, Drake RL, Abbott GF, Rice TW. PMID: 25310423.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 35     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    19. High-pitch ECG-synchronized pulmonary CT angiography versus standard CT pulmonary angiography: a prospective randomized study. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2013 Nov; 201(5):971-6. Bolen MA, Renapurkar RD, Popovic ZB, Heresi GA, Flamm SD, Lau CT, Halliburton SS. PMID: 24147466.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 10     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    20. Comparison between esophagography and chest computed tomography for evaluation of leaks after esophagectomy and gastric pull-through. J Thorac Imaging. 2013 Mar; 28(2):121-8. Lantos JE, Levine MS, Rubesin SE, Lau CT, Torigian DA. PMID: 23059739.
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    21. AIRP best cases in radiologic-pathologic correlation: Pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis. Radiographics. 2012 Jul-Aug; 32(4):987-90. Greiwe AC, Miller K, Farver C, Lau CT. PMID: 22786989.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 5     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    22. Potential role and implications of 18F-FDG-PET/CT imaging in the detection and management of iliopsoas abscess. Hell J Nucl Med. 2010 Sep-Dec; 13(3):280-1. Moghadam-Kia S, Lau CT, Nemeth A, Torigian DA, Alavi A. PMID: 21193886.
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    23. Differentiation of pleural effusions from parenchymal opacities: accuracy of bedside chest radiography. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2010 Feb; 194(2):407-12. Kitazono MT, Lau CT, Parada AN, Renjen P, Miller WT. PMID: 20093603.
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    24. Comparison of physician-rated performance characteristics of hydrophilic-coated guide wires. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2008 Mar; 19(3):400-5. Shah A, Lau C, Stavropoulos SW, Nemeth A, Soulen MC, Solomon JA, Mondschein JI, Patel AA, Shlansky-Goldberg RD, Itkin M, Chittams JL, Trerotola SO. PMID: 18295700.
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    25. Dacron-covered stent-grafts in transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts: initial experience. Radiology. 2005 Aug; 236(2):725-9. Lau CT, Scott M, Stavropoulos SW, Soulen MC, Solomon JA, Clark TW. PMID: 16000648.
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    26. The electronic viewbox. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005 Mar; 184(3):1021-3. Lau CT, Gefter WB. PMID: 15728636.
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    27. Radiographic appearance of a catheter-free wireless esophageal pH probe. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005 Mar; 184(3 Suppl):S40-2. Lau CT, Gefter WB, Metz DC. PMID: 15728017.
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    28. Ventral hernia resulting in increased fluorodeoxyglucose uptake on positron emission tomographic imaging. Clin Nucl Med. 2002 Dec; 27(12):920-1. Rebenstock A, Zhuang H, Hickeson M, Lau C, Alavi A. PMID: 12607888.
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