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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
IJCARS–JAMIT 2019–2020 special issue	76
CARS 2021: Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Proceedings of the 35th International Congress and Exhibition Munich, Germany, June 21–25, 2021	61
Cystic (including atypical) and solid breast lesion classification using the different features of quantitative ultrasound parametric images	53
Leveraging voxel-wise segmentation uncertainty to improve reliability in assessment of paediatric dysplasia of the hip	51
Automatic extraction of the mitral valve chordae geometry for biomechanical simulation	48
Correction to: Deformation modeling based on mechanical properties of liver tissue for virtual surgical simulation	43
Multiview multimodal network for breast cancer diagnosis in contrast-enhanced spectral mammography images	40
Centre-specific autonomous treatment plans for prostate brachytherapy using cGANs	35
A hybrid feature-based patient-to-image registration method for robot-assisted long bone osteotomy	32
A systematic analysis of surgical interventions for the airway in the mature unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity: a single case study	32
Domain adaptation and self-supervised learning for surgical margin detection	30
A convenient and stable vertebrae instance segmentation method for transforaminal endoscopic surgery planning	27
An intuitive surgical handle design for robotic neurosurgery	25
Time-aware deep neural networks for needle tip localization in 2D ultrasound	23
Co-occurrence balanced time series classification for the semi-supervised recognition of surgical smoke	23
Mask then classify: multi-instance segmentation for surgical instruments	23
ClipAssistNet: bringing real-time safety feedback to operating rooms	23
Large-scale surgical workflow segmentation for laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy	22
Semi-supervised CycleGAN for domain transformation of chest CT images and its application to opacity classification of diffuse lung diseases	22
A variable baseline stereoscopic camera with fast deployable structure for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery	22
An inverse planning simulated annealing algorithm with adaptive weight adjustment for LDR pancreatic brachytherapy	22
3D spatial priors for semi-supervised organ segmentation with deep convolutional neural networks	22
Prior ensemble learning	21
Anisotropic neural deblurring for MRI acceleration	20
3D ultrasound navigation system for screw insertion in posterior spine surgery: a phantom study	20

Surgical workflow recognition with 3DCNN for Sleeve Gastrectomy	19
Cascaded neural network-based CT image processing for aortic root analysis	19
Research on registration and navigation technology of augmented reality for ex-vivo hepatectomy	19
SHA-MTL: soft and hard attention multi-task learning for automated breast cancer ultrasound image segmentation and classification	19
Three-dimensional ultrasound for knee osteophyte depiction: a comparative study to computed tomography	19
Surgical assistant manipulator with diagonal joints and multi-stage telescopic screws for laparoscopic solo surgery	19
Cardiac X-ray image-based haptic guidance for robot-assisted coronary intervention: a feasibility study	18
Acknowledgement to reviewers	18
IJCARS: MICCAI 2020 special issue	17
Detection of microaneurysms and hemorrhages based on improved Hessian matrix	17
Automatic, global registration in laparoscopic liver surgery	17
3D axial-attention for lung nodule classification	16
Software-based planning of ultrasound and CT-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in hepatic tumors	16
Intelligent optical diagnosis and treatment system for automated image-guided laser ablation of tumors	16
Prediction of an oxygen extraction fraction map by convolutional neural network: validation of input data among MR and PET images	16
Correction to: Radiation exposure for intraoperative 3D scans in a hybrid operating room: how to reduce radiation exposure for the surgical team	16
Speed-of-sound imaging using diverging waves	15
“Keep it simple, scholar”: an experimental analysis of few-parameter segmentation networks for retinal vessels in fundus imaging	15
Initial phantom studies for an office-based low-field MR system for prostate biopsy	14
Against spatial–temporal discrepancy: contrastive learning-based network for surgical workflow recognition	14
Comparing the effectiveness of augmented reality-based and conventional instructions during single ECMO cannulation training	14
Mask-R$$^{2}$$CNN: a distance-field regression version of Mask-RCNN for fetal-head delineation in ultrasound images	13
Adapting the listening time for micro-electrode recordings in deep brain stimulation interventions	13
Real-time deep learning semantic segmentation during intra-operative surgery for 3D augmented reality assistance	13
Design of heart phantoms for ultrasound imaging of ventricular septal defects	13
Metabolomics patterns of breast cancer tumors using mass spectrometry imaging	13
Learning 3D medical image keypoint descriptors with the triplet loss	12
Clinical and radiological outcomes of endoscopic foraminoplasty and decompression assisted with preoperative planning software for lumbar foraminal stenosis	12
High-quality chest CT segmentation to assess the impact of COVID-19 disease	12
Intra-operative forecasting of growth modulation spine surgery outcomes with spatio-temporal dynamic networks	12
Novel microscope-based visual display and nasopharyngeal registration for auditory brainstem implantation: a feasibility study in an ex vivo model	11
Thermographic analysis of postoperative changes in the nasal breathing efficiency in infants and young children with unilateral cleft lip	11
Can machine learning-based analysis of multiparameter MRI and clinical parameters improve the performance of clinically significant prostate cancer diagnosis?	11
A virtual reality simulator for training the surgical reduction of patient-specific supracondylar humerus fractures	11
Detecting failure modes in image reconstructions with interval neural network uncertainty	11
Computational and image processing methods for analysis and automation of anatomical alignment and joint spacing in reconstructive surgery	10
Automating Periodontal bone loss measurement via dental landmark localisation	10
Accurate instance segmentation of surgical instruments in robotic surgery: model refinement and cross-dataset evaluation	10
A novel complementation method of an acoustic shadow region utilizing a convolutional neural network for ultrasound-guided therapy	10
Joint optic disc and optic cup segmentation based on boundary prior and adversarial learning	10
Evaluation of in-house, haptic assisted surgical planning for virtual reduction of complex mandibular fractures	10
Autonomous pick-and-place using the dVRK	10
IJCARS: BVM 2021 special issue	10
Vertebrae, IVD and spinal canal boundary extraction on MRI, utilizing CT-trained active shape models	10
A self-supervised learning strategy for postoperative brain cavity segmentation simulating resections	10
RPLS-Net: pulmonary lobe segmentation based on 3D fully convolutional networks and multi-task learning	10
Toward automatic atlas-based surgical planning for septoplasty	10
Spatiotemporal registration and fusion of transthoracic echocardiography and volumetric coronary artery tree	9
Correction to: Ultrasound in augmented reality: a mixed-methods evaluation of head-mounted displays in image-guided interventions	9
F3RNet: full-resolution residual registration network for deformable image registration	9

Development of a thermal model for irreversible electroporation: an approach to estimate and optimize the IRE protocols	9
Colonoscopic 3D reconstruction by tubular non-rigid structure-from-motion	9
Scalable quorum-based deep neural networks with adversarial learning for automated lung lobe segmentation in fast helical free-breathing CTs	9
Force-guided autonomous robotic ultrasound scanning control method for soft uncertain environment	9
Integrated multi-modality image-guided navigation for neurosurgery: open-source software platform using state-of-the-art clinical hardware	9
Explaining a model predicting quality of surgical practice: a first presentation to and review by clinical experts	9
Spectral augmentation for heart chambers segmentation on conventional contrasted and unenhanced CT scans: an in-depth study	9
Definition and extraction of 2D shape indices of intracranial aneurysm necks for rupture risk assessment	8
Ring artifact removal for differential phase-contrast X-ray computed tomography using a conditional generative adversarial network	8
Movement-level process modeling of microsurgical bimanual and unimanual tasks	8
SD-Net: joint surgical gesture recognition and skill assessment	8
Development of three-dimensional integral-type reconstruction formula for magnetic resonance elastography	7
Automatic morphological classification of mitral valve diseases in echocardiographic images based on explainable deep learning methods	7
A novel multi-DoF surgical robotic system for brachytherapy on liver tumor: Design and control	7
Versatile anomaly detection method for medical images with semi-supervised flow-based generative models	7
GCA-Net: global context attention network for intestinal wall vascular segmentation	7
An effective fine grading method of BI-RADS classification in mammography	7
Automatic detection of procedural knowledge in robotic-assisted surgical texts	7
Parametrizing the genioplasty: a biomechanical virtual study on soft tissue behavior	7
Aorta-aware GAN for non-contrast to artery contrasted CT translation and its application to abdominal aortic aneurysm detection	7
Visual Localisation for Knee Arthroscopy	7
Study of needle punctures into soft tissue through audio and force sensing: can audio be a simple alternative for needle guidance?	7
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	6
HoloUS: Augmented reality visualization of live ultrasound images using HoloLens for ultrasound-guided procedures	6
Fast and robust localization of surgical array using Kalman filter	6
Preclinical evaluation of a markerless, real-time, augmented reality guidance system for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy	6
Effective methods of diabetic retinopathy detection based on deep convolutional neural networks	6
Implications of component size and calibration error on digital templating for total hip arthroplasty. A visual matrix from a simple mathematical model	6
Simulation-to-real domain adaptation with teacher–student learning for endoscopic instrument segmentation	6
Capsule networks for segmentation of small intravascular ultrasound image datasets	6
IJCARS—IPCAI 2021 Special Issue: Information Processing for Computer-Assisted Interventions, 12th International Conference 2021—Part 1	6
Extraction of metastasis hotspots in a whole-body bone scintigram based on bilateral asymmetry	6
Effective operating room (OR) utilization by performing low-complex surgical procedures during the 2020 corona pandemic	6
Vessel segmentation for automatic registration of untracked laparoscopic ultrasound to CT of the liver	6
A semi-automatic seed point-based method for separation of individual vertebrae in 3D surface meshes: a proof of principle study	6