OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Diagnostics is 81. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Age-Related Changes in the Temperature of the Lumbar Spine Measured by Passive Microwave Radiometry (MWR)	606
Overexpression of CDC20 Confer a Poorer Prognosis in Bladder Cancer Identified by Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis	335
Digitally Guided Modified Intentional Replantation for a Tooth with Hopeless Periodontal Prognosis: A Case Report	261
Lung Ultrasound Versus Chest Radiography for Acute Heart Failure: Impact of Heart Failure History and Pleural Effusion	242
Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Otitis Media Using Blood Eosinophil Levels	238
Comparison of EWMA, MA, and MQ Under a Unified PBRTQC Framework for Thyroid and Coagulation Tests	194
Development of an RT-LAMP Assay for Detecting tet(M) in Enterococcus Species: Enhancing AMR Surveillance Within the One Health Sectors	188
A Statistical Approach to the Diagnosis and Prediction of HCC Using CK19 and Glypican 3 Biomarkers	183
Coronary Arteries Aneurysms: A Case-Based Literature Review	175
Deep Learning Network with Spatial Attention Module for Detecting Acute Bilirubin Encephalopathy in Newborns Based on Multimodal MRI	169
Pre-Analytical Factors Affecting Extracellular DNA in Saliva	165
Microduplication 3p26.3p24.3 and 4q34.3q35.2 Microdeletion Identified in a Patient with Developmental Delay Associated with Brain Malformation	160
Clinical and Pathological Profiles of Vertebral Bone Metastases from Endometrial Cancers: Evidence from a Twenty-Year Case Series	159
Chest Pain of Atypical Cause in a Young Man	157
Point-of-Care Echocardiographic Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients with Pulmonary Embolism	155
Primary Chronic Sclerosing Osteomyelitis: A New Diagnostic Tool	149
The Role of Checkpoint Inhibitor Expression Directly on Exfoliated Cells from Bladder Cancer: A Narrative Review	146
Can Perfusion-Based Brain Tissue Oxygenation MRI Support the Understanding of Cerebral Abscesses In Vivo?	141
Recent Advances in the Therapeutic Management of Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis	140
Deep-Learning-Based Image Denoising in Imaging of Urolithiasis: Assessment of Image Quality and Comparison to State-of-the-Art Iterative Reconstructions	140
Impact of Voxel Normalization on a Machine Learning-Based Method: A Study on Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Diagnosis Using Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT)	138
Exploiting the Potential of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Rapid Diagnosis Tests (RDTs): Nanoparticle-Antibody Conjugates and Color Development Strategies	135
A Logistic Regression Model for Predicting the Risk of Subsequent Surgery among Patients with Newly Diagnosed Crohn’s Disease Using a Brute Force Method	135
Multi-Contrast Differentiation by Dual-Energy Spectral CT Angiography in a Patient with Pulmonary Barium Granulomas	132
Feasibility of Optical Genome Mapping from Placental and Umbilical Cord Sampled after Spontaneous or Therapeutic Pregnancy Termination	132

Urine Biomarkers in the Management of Adult Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction: A Systematic Review	131
The Association between Specimen Neuromuscular Characteristics and Urinary Incontinence after Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy	126
Changing Laboratory Practice for Early Detection of a Fetal Inflammatory Response: A Contemporary Approach	126
Diagnostic Accuracy of the LabTurbo QuadAIO Common Flu Assay for Detecting Influenza A Virus, Influenza B Virus, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2	122
Brixia Chest X-ray Score, Laboratory Parameters and Vaccination Status for Prediction of Mortality in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients	119
Lung Ultrasonography Is an Acceptable Imaging Modality to Diagnose COVID-19 and Effectively Correlates with HRCT Chest—A Prospective Study	113
Stepwise Implementation of 2D Synthesized Screening Mammography and Its Effect on Stereotactic Biopsy of Microcalcifications	112
Bleeding-Source Exploration in Subdural Hematoma: Observational Study on the Usefulness of Postmortem Computed Tomography Angiography	111
Expression Analysis of miR-519a-3p and miR-379-5p in Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Combined Experimental and Bioinformatic Approach	111
Automated Aneurysm Boundary Detection and Volume Estimation Using Deep Learning	109
A Stepwise Anatomy-Based Protocol for Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: Educational Tool with Broad Clinical Utility	109
Test–Retest Reliability and Inter-Scanner Reproducibility of Improved Spinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging	107
Investigation of Ocular Blood Flow in Males with Metabolic Syndrome	107
Evaluation of Respiratory Conditions in Individuals Undergoing Rapid Maxillary Expansion: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Study	106
Gender Difference in Orthostatic Vascular Stiffness Increase in Young Subjects	104
Clinical Yield of Colonoscopy in Evaluation of Young Women with Constipation: An Age- and Gender-Based Analysis	103
The Train-Line Pattern on Duplex Ultrasound Helps Differentiate Intramural Thrombus from Atheromatous Plaque in Common Carotid Artery Dissection	101
16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis of V6–V8 Region Provides Limited Advantage in Diagnosis of Chronic Prostatitis	99
Selective Angiographic Roadmap Analysis (SARA) of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Feeding Arteries for Transarterial Chemoembolization	97
Early Alterations in De Novo Parkinson’s Disease Revealed by Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Preliminary Study	97
Respiratory Rehabilitation Index (R2I): Unsupervised Clustering Approach to Identify COPD Subgroups Associated with Rehabilitation Outcomes	96
Anatomical Relationship of the Mylohyoid Ridge, Lingual Concavity, and Mandibular Canal: A Retrospective CBCT Study	96
Bone Mass, Microarchitecture, and Morphometric Insights on a Right Unilateral Bifid Mandibular Condyle: A Micro-CT Analysis Report and Literature Review	96
Nanopore 16S-Full Length and ITS Sequencing for Microbiota Identification in Intra-Abdominal Infections	95
Reply to Fujimoto, T. Comment on “Okaniwa, S. How Can We Manage Gallbladder Lesions by Transabdominal Ultrasound? Diagnostics 2021, 11, 784”	95
Validation of Diagnostic Accuracy and Disease Severity Correlation of Chest Computed Tomography Severity Scores in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia	94
Neurofibromatosis Symptom-Lacking B-Cell Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Only an NF1 Gene Pathogenic Variant	94
17β-Estradiol Effects in Skeletal Muscle: A 31P MR Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) Study of Young Females during Early Follicular (EF) and Peri-Ovulation (PO) Phases	94
Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization and Its Associated Factors among Chronic Liver Disease Patients in a Teaching Hospital in Northeastern Malaysia	94
Diagnostic Utility of Double-Echo Steady-State (DESS) MRI for Fracture and Bone Marrow Edema Detection in Adolescent Lumbar Spondylolysis	93
Continuous Glucose Monitoring—New Diagnostic Tool in Complex Pathophysiological Disorder of Glucose Metabolism in Children and Adolescents with Obesity	92
Using Point of Care Rapid Cortisol Measurement During Adrenal Venous Sampling in Primary Hyperaldosteronism	91
Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) in the Diagnosis of a Diaphragm Dysfunction	90
Diagnostic Performance of Visionix VX120+ Platform for Dry Eye Screening	89
Diagnosis of an Acute Anterior Wall Infarction in Dual-Energy CT	89
Enhanced Positioning Strategies to Reduce Pneumothorax in CT-Guided Lung Biopsies	88
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Myocardial Strain Assessment Correlates with Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Pectus Excavatum	88
Computed Tomography Confirms Increased Left Atrial Volume in Patients with Bayés Syndrome Referred for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation	88
The Accuracy of Intraoral Scanners in Maxillary Defects with Different Model Variations	88
Dynamic Perviousness: A Novel Imaging Marker for Predicting Mechanical Thrombectomy Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke	87
Human Papillomavirus Infection of the Oropharyngeal and Laryngeal Squamous Papilloma: Disparities in Prevalence and Characteristics	86
Comparison of Two X-ray Analyses for Estimating the Prognosis of Eruption of Impacted Mandibular Third Molars	86
Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in WNT Genes in Patients with Non-Syndromic Orofacial Clefts in a Polish Population	85
Prediction Value of Initial Serum Levels of SERPINA3 in Intracranial Pressure and Long-Term Neurological Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury	85
BRAF Detection in FNAC Combined with Semi-Quantitative 99mTc-MIBI Technique and AI Model, an Economic and Efficient Predicting Tool for Malignancy in Thyroid Nodules	84
Artefacts in Hysterectomies with a Special Focus on Vascular Pseudoinvasion	84
Utilizing Aerobic Capacity Data for EDSS Score Estimation in Multiple Sclerosis: A Machine Learning Approach	84
Recovery from Severe COVID-19 Is an Independent Predictor of Electrocardiographic Abnormal P-Wave Axis	83
Circulating IgG Fragments for Gastric Cancer and Esophageal Cancer	83
Remote Diagnosis on Upper Respiratory Tract Infections Based on a Neural Network with Few Symptom Words—A Feasibility Study	82

Human versus Artificial Intelligence: Validation of a Deep Learning Model for Retinal Layer and Fluid Segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography Images from Patients with Age-Related Macular Degener	82
Near-Infrared In Vivo Imaging of Claudin-1 Expression by Orthotopically Implanted Patient-Derived Colonic Adenoma Organoids	82
Generation of JC Polyoma Pseudovirus for High-Throughput Measurement of Neutralizing Antibodies	82
A Neoteric Feature Extraction Technique to Predict the Survival of Gastric Cancer Patients	82
Uniportal VATS for Diagnosis and Staging in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)	81
Exploring Morphologic and Functional Variants in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: An Echocardiographic and Doppler Review	81
Conventional Ameloblastoma. A Case Report with Microarray and Bioinformatic Analysis	81
Rectal Sensory and Compliance Testing: A Method Comparison Study between High-Resolution Anorectal Manometry and Barostat Investigations	81
Retrospective Cohort Study: Severe COVID-19 Leads to Permanent Blunted Heart Rate Turbulence	81
Prognostic Factors of Survival in Glioblastoma Multiforme Patients—A Retrospective Study	81
A Rapid, Simple, Trace, Cost-Effective, and High-Throughput Stable Isotope-Dilution Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method for Serum Methylmalonic Acid Quantification and Its Clinical A	81
Maxillary Sinus Dimensions in Skeletal Class I Chinese Population with Different Vertical Skeletal Patterns: A Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Study	81
Choroidal Thickness Increase after Subliminal Transscleral Cyclophotocoagulation	81
Shoulder Magnetic Resonance Arthrography with the Internal and External Rotation Positions of the Humeral Head in the Evaluation of SLAP Lesions	81