OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic analysis of surgical interventions for the airway in the mature unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity: a single case study	61
A convenient and stable vertebrae instance segmentation method for transforaminal endoscopic surgery planning	58
Large-scale surgical workflow segmentation for laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy	52
Surgical workflow recognition with 3DCNN for Sleeve Gastrectomy	52
Anisotropic neural deblurring for MRI acceleration	44
Cascaded neural network-based CT image processing for aortic root analysis	40
Acknowledgement to reviewers	37
A virtual reality simulator for training the surgical reduction of patient-specific supracondylar humerus fractures	35
Learning 3D medical image keypoint descriptors with the triplet loss	34
Detection of microaneurysms and hemorrhages based on improved Hessian matrix	32
LiverNet: efficient and robust deep learning model for automatic diagnosis of sub-types of liver hepatocellular carcinoma cancer from H&E stained liver histopathology images	27
Effective methods of diabetic retinopathy detection based on deep convolutional neural networks	26
Spectral augmentation for heart chambers segmentation on conventional contrasted and unenhanced CT scans: an in-depth study	24
Automatic measurement plane placement for 4D Flow MRI of the great vessels using deep learning	23
Intra-saccular device modeling for treatment planning of intracranial aneurysms: from morphology to hemodynamics	23
Ring artifact removal for differential phase-contrast X-ray computed tomography using a conditional generative adversarial network	23
IJCARS—IPCAI 2021 Special Issue: Information Processing for Computer-Assisted Interventions, 12th International Conference 2021—Part 1	22
Entropy and distance maps-guided segmentation of articular cartilage: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative	22
Seeing under the cover with a 3D U-Net: point cloud-based weight estimation of covered patients	22
Point detection through multi-instance deep heatmap regression for sutures in endoscopy	21
Towards targeted ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy by incorporating model and label uncertainty in cancer detection	21
Object and anatomical feature recognition in surgical video images based on a convolutional neural network	21
Tattoo tomography: Freehand 3D photoacoustic image reconstruction with an optical pattern	20
Automated atlas-based segmentation for skull base surgical planning	20
Automatic linear measurements of the fetal brain on MRI with deep neural networks	20

Comprehensive metrics for evaluating surgical microscope use during tympanostomy tube placement	19
Impact of deformation on a supine-positioned image-guided breast surgery approach	19
A multi-scale unsupervised learning for deformable image registration	19
Distance and force visualisations for improved simulation of intracranial aneurysm clipping	19
An efficient multi-path 3D convolutional neural network for false-positive reduction of pulmonary nodule detection	19
Brain tumor segmentation in MRI images using nonparametric localization and enhancement methods with U-net	18
Development and experiments of a continuum robotic system for transoral laryngeal surgery	18
Correction to: Toward automatic C‑arm positioning for standard projections in orthopedic surgery	17
Video-based fully automatic assessment of open surgery suturing skills	17
Luminal enhancement in intracranial aneurysms: fact or feature?—A quantitative multimodal flow analysis	16
A study of three-dimensional reconstruction and printing models in two cases of soft tissue sarcoma of the thigh	16
DUDA-Net: a double U-shaped dilated attention network for automatic infection area segmentation in COVID-19 lung CT images	16
Binary polyp-size classification based on deep-learned spatial information	16
Fully automated deep learning-based localization and segmentation of the locus coeruleus in aging and Parkinson’s disease using neuromelanin-sensitive MRI	15
3D ultrasound navigation system for screw insertion in posterior spine surgery: a phantom study	14
Three-dimensional ultrasound for knee osteophyte depiction: a comparative study to computed tomography	14
Against spatial–temporal discrepancy: contrastive learning-based network for surgical workflow recognition	14
An inverse planning simulated annealing algorithm with adaptive weight adjustment for LDR pancreatic brachytherapy	14
Computational and image processing methods for analysis and automation of anatomical alignment and joint spacing in reconstructive surgery	13
Adapting the listening time for micro-electrode recordings in deep brain stimulation interventions	13
Toward automatic atlas-based surgical planning for septoplasty	13
Thermographic analysis of postoperative changes in the nasal breathing efficiency in infants and young children with unilateral cleft lip	13
Software-based planning of ultrasound and CT-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in hepatic tumors	13
Correction to: Radiation exposure for intraoperative 3D scans in a hybrid operating room: how to reduce radiation exposure for the surgical team	12
Mask-R$$^{2}$$CNN: a distance-field regression version of Mask-RCNN for fetal-head delineation in ultrasound images	12
Accurate instance segmentation of surgical instruments in robotic surgery: model refinement and cross-dataset evaluation	11
SD-Net: joint surgical gesture recognition and skill assessment	11
Detecting failure modes in image reconstructions with interval neural network uncertainty	11
Movement-level process modeling of microsurgical bimanual and unimanual tasks	11
Spatiotemporal registration and fusion of transthoracic echocardiography and volumetric coronary artery tree	11
Development of three-dimensional integral-type reconstruction formula for magnetic resonance elastography	11
Can machine learning-based analysis of multiparameter MRI and clinical parameters improve the performance of clinically significant prostate cancer diagnosis?	11
COVID-19 and beyond: development of a comprehensive telemedical diagnostic framework	10
Interactive teaching environment for diagnostic radiography with real-time X-ray simulation and patient positioning	10
DVH-based inverse planning for LDR pancreatic brachytherapy	10
Automated objective surgical planning for lateral skull base tumors	10
Generation of annotated multimodal ground truth datasets for abdominal medical image registration	10
Towards accurate and interpretable surgical skill assessment: a video-based method for skill score prediction and guiding feedback generation	10
Explaining a model predicting quality of surgical practice: a first presentation to and review by clinical experts	10
Simulation-to-real domain adaptation with teacher–student learning for endoscopic instrument segmentation	10
Real-time virtual intraoperative CT in endoscopic sinus surgery	10
Automated description of the mandible shape by deep learning	10
High-quality chest CT segmentation to assess the impact of COVID-19 disease	9
High-resolution deep transferred ASPPU-Net for nuclei segmentation of histopathology images	9
IJCARS: MICCAI 2020 special issue	9
Cardiac X-ray image-based haptic guidance for robot-assisted coronary intervention: a feasibility study	9
IJCARS–JAMIT 2019–2020 special issue	9
Leveraging voxel-wise segmentation uncertainty to improve reliability in assessment of paediatric dysplasia of the hip	9
A novel complementation method of an acoustic shadow region utilizing a convolutional neural network for ultrasound-guided therapy	9
Automatic triangulated mesh generation of pulmonary airways from segmented lung 3DCTs for computational fluid dynamics	9

Augmented reality-based autostereoscopic surgical visualization system for telesurgery	9
Automating Periodontal bone loss measurement via dental landmark localisation	8
Speed-of-sound imaging using diverging waves	8
IJCARS: BVM 2021 special issue	8
3D axial-attention for lung nodule classification	8
Force-guided autonomous robotic ultrasound scanning control method for soft uncertain environment	7
F3RNet: full-resolution residual registration network for deformable image registration	7
A novel multi-DoF surgical robotic system for brachytherapy on liver tumor: Design and control	7
Definition and extraction of 2D shape indices of intracranial aneurysm necks for rupture risk assessment	7
Study of needle punctures into soft tissue through audio and force sensing: can audio be a simple alternative for needle guidance?	7
HoloUS: Augmented reality visualization of live ultrasound images using HoloLens for ultrasound-guided procedures	7
Visual Localisation for Knee Arthroscopy	7
An effective fine grading method of BI-RADS classification in mammography	7
Versatile anomaly detection method for medical images with semi-supervised flow-based generative models	7
Extraction of metastasis hotspots in a whole-body bone scintigram based on bilateral asymmetry	7
An image processing tool for the detection of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity by evaluating the myocardial metabolic activity in [18F]FDG PET/CT	6
Automatic ultrasound scanning robotic system with optical waveguide-based force measurement	6
Evaluating the agreement and reliability of a web-based facial analysis tool for rhinoplasty	6
Automatic cortical target point localisation in MRI for transcranial magnetic stimulation via a multi-resolution convolutional neural network	6
Comparison of methods for sensitivity correction in Talbot–Lau computed tomography	6
Evaluation of ultrasonic fibrosis diagnostic system using convolutional network for ordinal regression	6
Transfer learning for automatic joint segmentation of thyroid and breast lesions from ultrasound images	6
Three-dimensional deep learning with spatial erasing for unsupervised anomaly segmentation in brain MRI	6
Capsule networks for segmentation of small intravascular ultrasound image datasets	6