OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Imaging is 34. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The value of preoperative positron emission tomography/computed tomography in differentiating the invasive degree of hypometabolic lung adenocarcinoma	175
Multiparametric MRI assessment of acute neuroinflammation in a murine model of peripheral LPS stimulation	164
Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging reveals microstructural damage in moyamoya disease: a study based on tract- and gray-based spatial statistics	158
Value of inversion imaging to diagnosis in differentiating malignant from benign breast masses	99
Dual contrast-enhanced ultrasound for diagnosing pathologic nipple discharge associated with papillary lesions	89
Shear wave elastography can improve the preoperative diagnosis of parathyroid carcinoma or atypical parathyroid tumor: initial experience	86
Multiparametric dual-energy computed tomography radiomics for predicting microvascular invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma	85
Prediction of neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy in breast cancer: integrating multimodal imaging and clinical features	81
Reducing radiomics errors in nasopharyngeal cancer via deep learning-based synthetic CT generation from CBCT	78
LoRA-based methods on Unet for transfer learning in aneurysmal subarachnoid hematoma segmentation	75
Three-dimensional numerical schemes for the segmentation of the psoas muscle in X-ray computed tomography images	67
ART workflow based on CBCT and end-to-end clinical dynamic phantom validation	63
Association of local collateral formation on TOF-MRA with plaque characteristics and ischemic stroke in intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis	62
Diagnostic value of combined CT lymphangiography and 99Tcm-DX lymphoscintigraphy in primary chylopericardium	58
Machine learning-based predictive model for the diagnosis of PH pulmonary hypertension diagnosis integrating cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and clinical biomarkers	57
Establishing T1 and ECV mapping based nomogram differentiate acute ischemic and nonischemic myocardial injury: a proof-of-concept study	56
Predicting neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in osteosarcoma using T2-based MRI delta-radiomics: a retrospective study	54
A nomogram combined substantia nigra hyperechogenicity with third ventricular width assessed by transcranial sonography in prediction Parkinson’s disease-related cognitive impairment	52
Radiomics based on MRI to predict recurrent L4-5 disc herniation after percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy	47
DCM-Net: dual-encoder CNN-Mamba network with cross-branch fusion for robust medical image segmentation	46
Cerebral small vessel disease moderates the association between executive dysfunction and spontaneous neural activity in adults who lost their only child	45
Systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis with lymphatic system involvement: a study based on non-contrast MR lymphangiography and 99TCm-DX lymphoscintigraphy	44
DefaceQA - automated quality assessment of brain MRI defacing software	43
Quantitative spectral parameters of photon-counting detector CT for noninvasive prediction of PD-L1 expression in non-small cell lung cancer	41
Utilizing imaging features of preoperative gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI for predicting lymphovascular invasion in colorectal cancer liver metastases and exploring its impact on survival	40

Assessment of Canalis Sinuosus located in maxillary anterior region by using cone beam computed tomography: a retrospective study	40
MRI findings of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with sarcomatoid differentiation: a retrospective case series	39
Styloid process morphology in extracranial internal carotid artery dissection: a CTA case-control study	38
Association between 3 D CT-based volumetric fat infiltration of lumbar paraspinal muscles and bone mineral density: a clinical study	37
Diagnostic efficacy of cone-beam computed tomography for detection of vertical root fractures in endodontically treated teeth: a systematic review	37
A dual self-attentive transformer U-Net model for precise pancreatic segmentation and fat fraction estimation	36
A transformer-based multimodal deep learning model for preoperative prediction of Ki-67 expression level in glioma	36
Deep learning for automated diagnosis and differentiation of otitis media on temporal bone CT	36
Quantitative white matter alterations of the anterior visual pathway predict injury following radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a high-angular-resolution diffusion imaging study	35
Segmentation for mammography classification utilizing deep convolutional neural network	34
Enhancing image quality in computed tomography angiography follow-ups after endovascular aneurysm repair: a comparative study of reconstruction techniques	34
A multitask Transformer-VAE framework for robust PPG denoising and atrial fibrillation screening	34
The impact of protective eyewear and device position on operator radiation dose during handheld portable X‑ray device use	34