Most cited papers in Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
What are the most cited papers in Medical Image Segmentation Techniques?
The most cited paper in Medical Image Segmentation Techniques is "A Computational Approach to Edge Detection" (John Canny, 1986), with 29,563 citations. Next come "Textural Features for Image Classification" (22,878) and "Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain" (17,037).
Showing 50 of 97 papers. Every paper with more than 2,394 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Computational Approach to Edge Detection John Canny · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Nov 1986 | 29,563 |
| 2 | Textural Features for Image Classification Robert M. Haralick, K. Shanmugam, Its'Hak Dinstein · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics | Nov 1973 | 22,878 |
| 3 | Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, Brigitte Landeau, Dimitri Papathanassiou et al. · NeuroImage | 2002 | 17,037 |
| 4 | Nonlinear total variation based noise removal algorithms L. Rudin, Stanley Osher, Emad Fatemi · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena | Nov 1992 | 15,969 |
| 5 | Normalized cuts and image segmentation Jianbo Shi, Jitendra Malik · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2000 | 15,833 |
| 6 | Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification with local binary patterns Timo Ojala, Matti Pietikäinen, Topi Mäenpää · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Jul 2002 | 15,451 |
| 7 | An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest Rahul S. Desikan, Florent Ségonne, Bruce R. Fischl et al. · NeuroImage | 14 Mar 2006 | 14,405 |
| 8 | Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion Pietro Perona, Jitendra Malik · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Jul 1990 | 12,182 |
| 9 | AFNI: Software for Analysis and Visualization of Functional Magnetic Resonance Neuroimages Robert W. Cox · Computers and Biomedical Research | Jun 1996 | 11,706 |
| 10 | Mean shift: a robust approach toward feature space analysis Dorin Comaniciu, Peter Meer · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | May 2002 | 11,456 |
| 11 | Fast robust automated brain extraction Stephen M. Smith · Human Brain Mapping | 18 Sep 2002 | 10,948 |
| 12 | Improved Optimization for the Robust and Accurate Linear Registration and Motion Correction of Brain Images Mark Jenkinson · NeuroImage | Oct 2002 | 10,690 |
| 13 | Active contours without edges Tony Fan-Cheong Chan, Luminita A. Vese · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 2001 | 10,394 |
| 14 | Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm William E. Lorensen, H. E. Cline | Aug 1987 | 10,249 |
| 15 | Determining optical flow Berthold K. P. Horn, Brian G. Schunck · Artificial Intelligence | Aug 1981 | 10,151 |
| 16 | SLIC Superpixels Compared to State-of-the-Art Superpixel Methods Radhakrishna Achanta, Anil Shaji, Kevin Christopher Smith et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 30 May 2012 | 9,302 |
| 17 | User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: Significantly improved efficiency and reliability Paul A. Yushkevich, Joseph Piven, Heather C. Hazlett et al. · NeuroImage | 21 Mar 2006 | 9,244 |
| 18 | Whole Brain Segmentation Bruce R. Fischl, David H. Salat, Evelina Busa et al. · Neuron | 2002 | 9,165 |
| 19 | Voxel-Based Morphometry—The Methods John Ashburner, Karl John Friston · NeuroImage | Jun 2000 | 8,780 |
| 20 | A fast diffeomorphic image registration algorithm John Ashburner · NeuroImage | 19 Jul 2007 | 8,468 |
| 21 | Bilateral filtering for gray and color images Carlo Tomasi, Roberto Manduchi | 27 Nov 2002 | 8,211 |
| 22 | 3D U-Net: Learning Dense Volumetric Segmentation from Sparse Annotation Özgün Çiçek, Ahmed Abdulkadir, Soeren S. Lienkamp et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2016 | 7,911 |
| 23 | Unified segmentation John Ashburner, Karl John Friston · NeuroImage | 2 Apr 2005 | 7,633 |
| 24 | A global optimisation method for robust affine registration of brain images Mark Jenkinson, Stephen M. Smith · Medical Image Analysis | Jun 2001 | 7,274 |
| 25 | Dynamic Graph CNN for Learning on Point Clouds Yue Wang, Yongbin Sun, Ziwei Liu et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics | 10 Oct 2019 | 7,071 |
| 26 | A comparative study of texture measures with classification based on featured distributions Timo Ojala, Matti Pietikäinen, David Harwood · Pattern Recognition | 1996 | 6,892 |
| 27 | The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS) Bjoern H. Menze et al. · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | 4 Dec 2014 | 6,843 |
| 28 | Efficient Graph-Based Image Segmentation Pedro F. Felzenszwalb, Daniel P. Huttenlocher · International Journal of Computer Vision | 31 Mar 2004 | 6,257 |
| 29 | Symmetric diffeomorphic image registration with cross-correlation: Evaluating automated labeling of elderly and neurodegenerative brain Brian Avants, Charles L. Epstein, Murray Grossman et al. · Medical Image Analysis | 26 Jun 2007 | 6,189 |
| 30 | Statistical and structural approaches to texture R.M. Haralick · Proceedings of the IEEE | 1979 | 5,789 |
| 31 | Watersheds in digital spaces: an efficient algorithm based on immersion simulations Luc M. Vincent, Pierre Soille · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Jun 1991 | 5,678 |
| 32 | Threshold-free cluster enhancement: Addressing problems of smoothing, threshold dependence and localisation in cluster inference Stephen M. Smith, Thomas E. Nichols · NeuroImage | 12 Apr 2008 | 5,638 |
| 33 | Contour Detection and Hierarchical Image Segmentation Pablo Arbeláez, Michael Maire, Charless C. Fowlkes et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 27 Aug 2010 | 5,633 |
| 34 | Nonrigid registration using free-form deformations: application to breast MR images Daniel Rueckert, Luke Ienari Sonoda, Carmel Hayes et al. · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | 1999 | 5,327 |
| 35 | Geodesic Active Contours Vicent Caselles, Ron Kimmel, Guillermo Sapiro · International Journal of Computer Vision | Feb 1997 | 5,275 |
| 36 | A reproducible evaluation of ANTs similarity metric performance in brain image registration Brian Avants, Nicholas J. Tustison, Gang Song et al. · NeuroImage | 18 Sep 2010 | 5,258 |
| 37 | Principal warps: thin-plate splines and the decomposition of deformations Fred L. Bookstein · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Jun 1989 | 4,986 |
| 38 | Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis Dinggang G. Shen, Guorong Wu, Heung‐Il Suk · Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering | 16 Mar 2017 | 4,947 |
| 39 | Survey over image thresholding techniques and quantitative performance evaluation B. Sankur · Journal of Electronic Imaging | 2004 | 4,612 |
| 40 | Comparing images using the Hausdorff distance D.P. Huttenlocher, G.A. Klanderman, William J. Rucklidge · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1993 | 4,576 |
| 41 | Multimodality image registration by maximization of mutual information Frederik Maes, Andre M. F. Collignon, Dirk Vandermeulen et al. · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | Apr 1997 | 4,564 |
| 42 | Automatically Parcellating the Human Cerebral Cortex Bruce R. Fischl · Cerebral Cortex | 3 Dec 2003 | 4,519 |
| 43 | A First-Order Primal-Dual Algorithm for Convex Problems with Applications to Imaging Antonin Chambolle, Thomas Pock · Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision | 20 Dec 2010 | 4,454 |
| 44 | elastix: A Toolbox for Intensity-Based Medical Image Registration Stefan Klein, Marius Staring, Keelin Murphy et al. · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | 23 Nov 2009 | 4,426 |
| 45 | ALGORITHMS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF POINTS REQUIRED TO REPRESENT A DIGITIZED LINE OR ITS CARICATURE David H. Douglas, Thomas K. Peucker · Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization | Dec 1973 | 4,256 |
| 46 | On the Statistical Analysis of Dirty Pictures Julian E. Besag · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) | Jul 1986 | 4,240 |
| 47 | Medical image analysis: progress over two decades and the challenges ahead James S. Duncan, Nicholas Ayache · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2000 | 4,166 |
| 48 | A Review of Image Denoising Algorithms, with a New One Antoni Buades, B. Coll, Jean‐Michel Morel · Multiscale Modeling and Simulation | 2005 | 4,110 |
| 49 | Accurate and robust brain image alignment using boundary-based registration Douglas N. Greve, Bruce R. Fischl · NeuroImage | Jul 2009 | 4,090 |
| 50 | YOLOv9: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Information Chien-Yao Wang, I-Hau Yeh, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao · Lecture notes in computer science | 25 Oct 2024 | 4,075 |
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