OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery is 11. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic analysis of surgical interventions for the airway in the mature unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity: a single case study	51
3D ultrasound navigation system for screw insertion in posterior spine surgery: a phantom study	48
Acknowledgement to reviewers	47
Prior ensemble learning	46
Co-occurrence balanced time series classification for the semi-supervised recognition of surgical smoke	43
Surgical assistant manipulator with diagonal joints and multi-stage telescopic screws for laparoscopic solo surgery	42
A variable baseline stereoscopic camera with fast deployable structure for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery	41
IJCARS–JAMIT 2019–2020 special issue	39
Time-aware deep neural networks for needle tip localization in 2D ultrasound	33
Intraoperative optimization of seed implantation plan in breast brachytherapy	31
Multiview multimodal network for breast cancer diagnosis in contrast-enhanced spectral mammography images	28
Three-dimensional ultrasound for knee osteophyte depiction: a comparative study to computed tomography	28
Cascaded neural network-based CT image processing for aortic root analysis	27
Mask then classify: multi-instance segmentation for surgical instruments	27
CARS 2021: Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Proceedings of the 35th International Congress and Exhibition Munich, Germany, June 21–25, 2021	27
Cystic (including atypical) and solid breast lesion classification using the different features of quantitative ultrasound parametric images	25
Automated segmentation of an intensity calibration phantom in clinical CT images using a convolutional neural network	25
SHA-MTL: soft and hard attention multi-task learning for automated breast cancer ultrasound image segmentation and classification	23
3D spatial priors for semi-supervised organ segmentation with deep convolutional neural networks	21
Mixed reality as a novel tool for diagnostic and surgical navigation in orthopaedics	21
Semi-supervised CycleGAN for domain transformation of chest CT images and its application to opacity classification of diffuse lung diseases	20
An intuitive surgical handle design for robotic neurosurgery	19
A hybrid feature-based patient-to-image registration method for robot-assisted long bone osteotomy	19
Domain adaptation and self-supervised learning for surgical margin detection	18
Centre-specific autonomous treatment plans for prostate brachytherapy using cGANs	18

ClipAssistNet: bringing real-time safety feedback to operating rooms	18
Automatic extraction of the mitral valve chordae geometry for biomechanical simulation	18
Anisotropic neural deblurring for MRI acceleration	18
Research on registration and navigation technology of augmented reality for ex-vivo hepatectomy	17
A convenient and stable vertebrae instance segmentation method for transforaminal endoscopic surgery planning	17
An inverse planning simulated annealing algorithm with adaptive weight adjustment for LDR pancreatic brachytherapy	17
Correction to: Deformation modeling based on mechanical properties of liver tissue for virtual surgical simulation	16
Surgical workflow recognition with 3DCNN for Sleeve Gastrectomy	16
Leveraging voxel-wise segmentation uncertainty to improve reliability in assessment of paediatric dysplasia of the hip	16
Large-scale surgical workflow segmentation for laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy	16
Clinical and radiological outcomes of endoscopic foraminoplasty and decompression assisted with preoperative planning software for lumbar foraminal stenosis	15
Mask-R$$^{2}$$CNN: a distance-field regression version of Mask-RCNN for fetal-head delineation in ultrasound images	15
High-quality chest CT segmentation to assess the impact of COVID-19 disease	15
Detecting failure modes in image reconstructions with interval neural network uncertainty	15
Comparing the effectiveness of augmented reality-based and conventional instructions during single ECMO cannulation training	15
Dental disease detection on periapical radiographs based on deep convolutional neural networks	15
Cardiac X-ray image-based haptic guidance for robot-assisted coronary intervention: a feasibility study	14
Intelligent optical diagnosis and treatment system for automated image-guided laser ablation of tumors	14
Computational and image processing methods for analysis and automation of anatomical alignment and joint spacing in reconstructive surgery	14
Acknowledgement to reviewers	14
Design of heart phantoms for ultrasound imaging of ventricular septal defects	14
IJCARS: BVM 2021 special issue	14
Can machine learning-based analysis of multiparameter MRI and clinical parameters improve the performance of clinically significant prostate cancer diagnosis?	13
IJCARS: MICCAI 2020 special issue	13
Prediction of an oxygen extraction fraction map by convolutional neural network: validation of input data among MR and PET images	13
Thermographic analysis of postoperative changes in the nasal breathing efficiency in infants and young children with unilateral cleft lip	13
Intra-operative forecasting of growth modulation spine surgery outcomes with spatio-temporal dynamic networks	13
Software-based planning of ultrasound and CT-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in hepatic tumors	12
A novel complementation method of an acoustic shadow region utilizing a convolutional neural network for ultrasound-guided therapy	12
“Keep it simple, scholar”: an experimental analysis of few-parameter segmentation networks for retinal vessels in fundus imaging	12
Automating Periodontal bone loss measurement via dental landmark localisation	12
Metabolomics patterns of breast cancer tumors using mass spectrometry imaging	11
Initial phantom studies for an office-based low-field MR system for prostate biopsy	11
A virtual reality simulator for training the surgical reduction of patient-specific supracondylar humerus fractures	11
Lightweight pyramid network with spatial attention mechanism for accurate retinal vessel segmentation	11
3D axial-attention for lung nodule classification	11
Learning 3D medical image keypoint descriptors with the triplet loss	11
Novel microscope-based visual display and nasopharyngeal registration for auditory brainstem implantation: a feasibility study in an ex vivo model	11
Automatic, global registration in laparoscopic liver surgery	11