OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery is 12. 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 systematic analysis of surgical interventions for the airway in the mature unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity: a single case study	32
A hybrid feature-based patient-to-image registration method for robot-assisted long bone osteotomy	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
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
Time-aware deep neural networks for needle tip localization in 2D ultrasound	23
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
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
Prior ensemble learning	21
3D ultrasound navigation system for screw insertion in posterior spine surgery: a phantom study	20
Anisotropic neural deblurring for MRI acceleration	20

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
Surgical workflow recognition with 3DCNN for Sleeve Gastrectomy	19
Cascaded neural network-based CT image processing for aortic root analysis	19
Cardiac X-ray image-based haptic guidance for robot-assisted coronary intervention: a feasibility study	18
Acknowledgement to reviewers	18
Detection of microaneurysms and hemorrhages based on improved Hessian matrix	17
Automatic, global registration in laparoscopic liver surgery	17
IJCARS: MICCAI 2020 special issue	17
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
3D axial-attention for lung nodule classification	16
“Keep it simple, scholar”: an experimental analysis of few-parameter segmentation networks for retinal vessels in fundus imaging	15
Speed-of-sound imaging using diverging waves	15
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
Initial phantom studies for an office-based low-field MR system for prostate biopsy	14
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
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
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
Learning 3D medical image keypoint descriptors with the triplet loss	12