Brandon Fields, MD

Resident

Brandon K.K. Fields, M.D., is a radiology resident at the University of California, San Francisco. A Colorado native, he earned his undergraduate degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder in Integrative Physiology and Classical Guitar Performance in 2014, and his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in 2021. His research interests include investigating quantitative imaging and machine learning applications for tumor characterization and treatment response.

Honors and Awards

Top Doctor, Best In California Magazine Doctor Edition, 2025

Honored Educator Award, Radiological Society of North America, 2025

Editor's Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction, Radiology: Imaging Cancer, 2025

Editor's Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction, Radiology: Imaging Cancer, 2024

Top Doctor, Best In California Magazine Doctor Edition, 2023

26th Annual Sue Geller Medical Arts Award, Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, 2022

26th Annual Jack Geller Research Award for Best Original Investigation Oral Presentation, Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, 2022

Graduation with Distinction in Research, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2021

Graduation "with Highest Distinction", Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2021

Award for Academic Excellence for Years I-IV (Valedictorian), Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2021

Elected to the Order of Arête, University of Southern California, 2021

Elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2020

Dean’s Recognition Year III/IV Continuum, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2020

Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2020

Outstanding Graduate of the College (Valedictorian), University of Colorado Boulder College of Arts & Sciences, 2014

Summa cum laude, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder College of Arts & Sciences, 2014

Graduation "with Highest Honors", Classical Guitar Performance, University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, 2014

Elected to Pi Kappa Lambda (national honor society for music), University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, 2013

Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award, University of Colorado Boulder Chapter, 2012

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, University of Colorado Boulder College of Arts & Sciences, 2011

Publications

RSNA Medical Student Task Force: A Success Story in Medical Student Initiatives.

Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc

Anderson JK, Chang B, Fields BKK, Albasha H, Gupta Y

Imaging of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease. Radiology: Imaging Cancer Podcasts

Fields BKK (Host), Holter-Chakrabarty J

MRI-based Supplemental Screening Improves Cancer Detection in Patients with Mammographically Dense Breast Tissue.

Radiology. Imaging cancer

Fields BKK, Joe BN

Association of Clinical and US Features with Malignancy of Breast Tumors: Investigating Shear-Wave Elastography and Radiomics.

Radiology. Imaging cancer

Fields BKK, Joe BN

Conventional radiography for the assessment of focal bone lesions of the appendicular skeleton: fundamental concepts in the modern imaging era.

Skeletal radiology

Matcuk GR, Waldman LE, Fields BKK, Colangeli M, Palmas M, Righi A, Filonzi G, Crombé A, Spinnato P

Editorial: Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for the imaging of bone and soft tissue tumors.

Frontiers in radiology

Fields BKK, Varghese BA, Matcuk GR

Correction to: Emergency imaging protocols for pregnant patients: a multiinstitutional and multi- specialty comparison of physician education.

Emergency radiology

Eibschutz L, Lu MY, Jannatdoust P, Judd AC, Justin CA, Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Rehani M, Reddy S, Gholamrezanezhad A

Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for the imaging of bone and soft tissue tumors

Fields BKK, Matcuk GR Jr, Varghese BA, eds

Emergency imaging protocols for pregnant patients: a multi-institutional and multi- specialty comparison of physician education.

Emergency radiology

Eibschutz L, Lu MY, Jannatdoust P, Judd AC, Justin CA, Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Rehani M, Reddy S, Gholamrezanezhad A

Navigating a Radiology Conference: A Comprehensive Guide for Learners.

Academic radiology

Mittal A, Fields BKK, Choe AI, McGillen K

Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for the imaging of bone and soft tissue tumors.

Frontiers in radiology

Sabeghi P, Kinkar KK, Castaneda GDR, Eibschutz LS, Fields BKK, Varghese BA, Patel DB, Gholamrezanezhad A

Factors Influencing Probably Benign (BI-RADS 3) Radiologist Assessment at Diagnostic Mammography.

Radiology. Imaging cancer

Fields BKK, Joe BN

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis for Nonimplant-displaced Views May Be Safely Omitted at Screening Mammography.

Radiology. Imaging cancer

Fields BKK, Joe BN

The University of California San Francisco Adult Longitudinal Post-Treatment Diffuse Glioma MRI Dataset.

Radiology. Artificial intelligence

Fields BKK, Calabrese E, Mongan J, Cha S, Hess CP, Sugrue LP, Chang SM, Luks TL, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Rauschecker AM, Rudie JD

Radiomics and Deep Learning to Predict Pulmonary Nodule Metastasis at CT.

Radiology

Sohn JH, Fields BKK

Screening Breast MRI Effectively Detects Early-Stage Breast Cancer in High-Risk Patients without Prior History of Breast Cancer.

Radiology. Imaging cancer

Fields BKK, Joe BN

Lower extremity infections: Essential anatomy and multimodality imaging findings.

Skeletal radiology

Matcuk GR, Skalski MR, Patel DB, Fields BKK, Waldman LE, Spinnato P, Gholamrezanezhad A, Katal S

Imaging of lower extremity infections: predisposing conditions, atypical infections, mimics, and differentiating features.

Skeletal radiology

Matcuk GR, Katal S, Gholamrezanezhad A, Spinnato P, Waldman LE, Fields BKK, Patel DB, Skalski MR

Empowering breast cancer diagnosis and radiology practice: advances in artificial intelligence for contrast-enhanced mammography.

Frontiers in radiology

Kinkar KK, Fields BKK, Yamashita MW, Varghese BA

Family caregiving. Radiology: Imaging Cancer Podcasts

Fields BKK & Luker G (Hosts), Applebaum A

Survival Benefits of Repeated Breast Cancer Screening.

Radiology. Imaging cancer

Fields BKK, Joe BN

Imaging approach to pediatric and adolescent familial cancer syndromes

In: Hannah-Shmouni F, ed. Familial endocrine cancer syndromes: navigating the transition of care for pediatric and adolescent patients

Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Ahmadzadehfar H, Yordanova A, Nabipour I, Jokar N, Assadi M, Joyce P, Gholamrezanezhad A

Discal cysts and pseudocysts: Single center experience.

Interventional pain medicine

Gorolay VV, Fields BKK, Shah VN

Spatial assessments in texture analysis: what the radiologist needs to know.

Frontiers in radiology

Varghese BA, Fields BKK, Hwang DH, Duddalwar VA, Matcuk GR, Cen SY

Deep learning image segmentation approaches for malignant bone lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Frontiers in radiology

Rich JM, Bhardwaj LN, Shah A, Gangal K, Rapaka MS, Oberai AA, Fields BKK, Matcuk GR, Duddalwar VA

Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma

Radiological Society of North America Case Collection

Srivastava R, Fields BKK, Shah V, Cha S

Microlearning curriculum series: tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT)/pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS). Radiological Society of North America Case Collection

Fields BKK, Matcuk GR Jr

Musculoskeletal imaging

In: Gholamrezanezhad A, Assadi M, Jadvar H, eds. Radiology-nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging: a correlative approach

Matcuk GR Jr, Gross JS, Patel DB, Fields BKK, Lapalma DM, Stahl D

Predicting Soft Tissue Sarcoma Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Using an MRI-Based Delta-Radiomics Approach.

Molecular imaging and biology

Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Cen SY, Varghese BA, Hwang DH, Lei X, Desai B, Duddalwar V, Matcuk GR

Educational, psychosocial, and clinical impact of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic on medical students in the United States.

World journal of virology

Frank V, Doshi A, Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Song C, Lei X, Reddy S, Desai B, Harvey DC, Cen S, Gholamrezanezhad A

CT-based radiomics stratification of tumor grade and TNM stage of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

European radiology

Demirjian NL, Varghese BA, Cen SY, Hwang DH, Aron M, Siddiqui I, Fields BKK, Lei X, Yap FY, Rivas M, Reddy SS, Zahoor H, Liu DH, Desai M, Rhie SK, Gill IS, Duddalwar V

Veillonella Bacteremia in Alcoholic Hepatitis.

Case reports in hepatology

Lee P, Fields BKK, Liang T, Dubé MP, Politano S

Whole-tumor 3D volumetric MRI-based radiomics approach for distinguishing between benign and malignant soft tissue tumors.

European radiology

Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Hwang DH, Varghese BA, Cen SY, Lei X, Desai B, Duddalwar V, Matcuk GR

Impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on healthcare workers: A nationwide survey of United States radiologists.

Clinical imaging

Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Song C, Reddy S, Desai B, Cen SY, Salehi S, Gholamrezanezhad A

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnostic technologies: A country-based retrospective analysis of screening and containment procedures during the first wave of the pandemic.

Clinical imaging

Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Gholamrezanezhad A

Role of Chest CT in Resource-Driven Healthcare Systems.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology

Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Gholamrezanezhad A

Primary hepatic angiosarcoma: a case-based discussion of unique presentations and extrahepatic manifestations

Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports

Fields BKK, Matcuk GR Jr, Lai D, Lee A, Dwabe S, Hanlon C, Demirjian NL, Politano S

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Review of guidelines for resuming non-urgent imaging and procedures in radiology during Phase II.

Clinical imaging

Azam SA, Myers L, Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Patel D, Roberge E, Gholamrezanezhad A, Reddy S

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): an update on neurologic sequelae

Neurodiem

Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Balakrishnan S, Gholamrezanezhad A

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (q-MRI) for the assessment of soft-tissue sarcoma treatment response: a narrative case review of technique development.

Clinical imaging

Fields BKK, Hwang D, Cen S, Desai B, Gulati M, Hu J, Duddalwar V, Varghese B, Matcuk GR

The effects of microRNA-19b overexpression and knockdown in the basolateral amygdaloid nucleus on noradrenergic metabolism

Fields BKK