Dr. Hervé Choi
Hervé Choi (PhD, MCCPM) is a Medical Physicist at BC Cancer Vancouver. Dr Choi completed his doctorate in experimental particle physics at the University of Victoria. After his graduation, he went to Hong Kong and worked there as a medical physicist for almost eight years.
Dr Choi joined the Vancouver team in 2021. His clinical responsibilities include intracranial stereotactic treatments, low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy, CBCT-based online adaptive radiotherapy, biological effective dose calculations in retreatments and the implementation of autosegmentation. He is currently the facilitator of the Provincial Physics Forum, where clinical medical physicists from around the province meet once every four weeks to discuss emerging topics from their centre.
Dr Choi is one of the co-leads for a Community of Practice in COMP on the integration of foreign-trained physicists in Canada.
In his personal life, Dr Choi is feared among his friends for his extreme openness to exotic foods, a significant portion of which his companions cannot stomach. He is proud to have completed all the Russian lessons in Duolingo, but is ashamed to admit that he struggles to hold a 30-second conversation at his neighbourhood Russian grocery store.
Research Areas
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in radiation therapy
Appointments and Affiliations
Clinical Instructor with the Department of Surgery at UBC
Honorary Lecturer with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UBC
Supervision
Vivian Hughes (summer student)
Alina Wang (summer student and undergraduate Capstone project)
Orlando Madruga (summer student)
Publications
Chen ZF, Larocque B, Wang J, Chen D, Liu W, Choi HHF, Raman S. Artificial intelligence applications in adaptive radiotherapy – a narrative review. Transl Cancer Res 2026 Mar 31;15(3):216.
Tu L, Choi HHF, Clark H, Lloyd SAM. An approach for cancer outcomes modelling using a comprehensive synthetic dataset. Phys Eng Sci Med 2025 Sep;48(3):1473-1483.
Li ZHJ, Lechner L, Choi HHF et al. Population-based real-world outcomes of post-operative adjuvant brain cavity radiotherapy versus observation. Curr Oncol 2025 Jun11;32(6):345.
Tu L, Choi HHF, Clark H, Gill B, Young S, Lloyd SAM. Evaluating consistency of radiomic features derived from CT images: A cross-center phantom study. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2026 Feb;27(2):e70482.
Choi HHF, Ho JPY, Yang B, Cheung KY, Yu SK. Technical note: Correlation between TQA data trends and TomoHD functional status. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2014 Mar 6;15(2):4548.
Grants
Department of Surgery Seed Grant (2024 – 2025)
Contact
Email: herve.choi@bccancer.bc.ca