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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributionx to biomedical image analysis and image guided medical interventions

Overview

Benoit M. Dawant is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions recorded across related subfields.

The main fields of study for Dawant include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Their work further specializes in the following subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Sensory Systems
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Dawant's research covers a range of topics, prominently including:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Recent publication venues where Dawant has commonly contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of neurosurgery
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Medical Imaging

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative research include:

  • Dario J. Englot
  • Sarah K. Bick
  • Jack H. Noble
  • Graham W. Johnson
  • Christos Constantinidis

Some of the notable papers authored by Dawant are:

  • "Seizure-onset regions demonstrate high inward directed connectivity during resting-state: An SEEG study in focal epilepsy", 2020, published in Epilepsia
  • "The Interictal Suppression Hypothesis in focal epilepsy: network-level supporting evidence", 2023, published in Brain
  • "HeadLocNet: Deep convolutional neural networks for accurate classification and multi-landmark localization of head CTs", 2020, published in Medical Image Analysis
  • "Speech recognition with cochlear implants as a function of the number of channels: Effects of electrode placement", 2020, published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Structural Correlates of the Sensorimotor Cerebellum in Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor", 2020, published in Movement Disorders

In 2010, Dawant was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction for contributions to biomedical image analysis and image-guided medical interventions.

Best Publications

  • Morphometric analysis of white matter lesions in MR images: method and validation

    A.P. Zijdenbos;B.M. Dawant;R.A. Margolin;A.C. Palmer

  • Comparison and Evaluation of Methods for Liver Segmentation From CT Datasets

    T. Heimann;B. van Ginneken;M.A. Styner;Y. Arzhaeva

  • Comparison and Evaluation of Retrospective Intermodality Brain Image Registration Techniques

    West J;Fitzpatrick Jm;Wang My;Dawant Bm

  • The adaptive bases algorithm for intensity-based nonrigid image registration

    G.K. Rohde;A. Aldroubi;B.M. Dawant

  • Correction of intensity variations in MR images for computer-aided tissue classification

    B.M. Dawant;A.P. Zijdenbos;R.A. Margolin

  • Comparison and evaluation of retrospective intermodality image registration techniques

    Jay B. West;J. Michael Fitzpatrick;Matthew Yang Wang;Benoit M. Dawant

  • Apparatus and methods of optimal placement of deep brain stimulator

    Benoit M. Dawant

  • Neural-network-based segmentation of multi-modal medical images: a comparative and prospective study

    M. Ozkan;B.M. Dawant;R.J. Maciunas

  • Brain segmentation and white matter lesion detection in MR images.

    A P Zijdenbos;B M Dawant

  • Automatic 3-D segmentation of internal structures of the head in MR images using a combination of similarity and free-form transformations. I. Methodology and validation on normal subjects

    B.M. Dawant;S.L. Hartmann;J.-P. Thirion;F. Maes

  • Evaluation of segmentation methods on head and neck CT: Auto-segmentation challenge 2015

    Patrik F. Raudaschl;Paolo Zaffino;Gregory C. Sharp;Maria Francesca Spadea

  • Registration of 3-D images using weighted geometrical features

    C.R. Maurer;G.B. Aboutanos;B.M. Dawant;R.J. Maciunas

  • Electrode Location and Angular Insertion Depth Are Predictors of Audiologic Outcomes in Cochlear Implantation

    Brendan P. O’Connell;Ahmet Cakir;Jacob B. Hunter;David O. Francis

  • Retrospective intermodality registration techniques for images of the head: surface-based versus volume-based

    J. West;J.M. Fitzpatrick;M.Y. Wang;B.M. Dawant

  • Three-dimensional visualization of protein expression in mouse brain structures using imaging mass spectrometry

    Anna C. Crecelius;D. Shannon Cornett;Richard M. Caprioli;Betsy Williams

  • Automatic Segmentation of Intracochlear Anatomy in Conventional CT

    J. H. Noble;R. F. Labadie;O. Majdani;B. M. Dawant

  • Biomedical Image Registration

    Bernd Fischer;Benoît M. Dawant;Cristian Lorenz

  • Integrating spatially resolved three-dimensional MALDI IMS with in vivo magnetic resonance imaging.

    Tuhin K Sinha;Sheerin Khatib-Shahidi;Thomas E Yankeelov;Khubaib Mapara

  • Image-Guidance Enables New Methods for Customizing Cochlear Implant Stimulation Strategies

    Jack H. Noble;Robert F. Labadie;Renea H. Gifford;Benoit M. Dawant

  • Liver segmentation in living liver transplant donors : Comparison of semiautomatic and manual methods

    Laurent Hermoye;Ismael Laamari-Azjal;Zhujiang Cao;Laurence Annet

  • Concepts and Preliminary Data Toward the Realization of Image-guided Liver Surgery

    David M. Cash;David M. Cash;Michael I. Miga;Sean C. Glasgow;Benoit M. Dawant

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Miga
Michael I. Miga Vanderbilt University
J. Michael Fitzpatrick
J. Michael Fitzpatrick Vanderbilt University
Robert L. Galloway
Robert L. Galloway Vanderbilt University
Bennett A. Landman
Bennett A. Landman Vanderbilt University
Victoria L. Morgan
Victoria L. Morgan Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Robert M. Kessler
Robert M. Kessler University of Alabama at Birmingham
Calvin R. Maurer
Calvin R. Maurer Stanford University
Dario J. Englot
Dario J. Englot Vanderbilt University Medical Center
David H. Zald
David H. Zald Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Manus J. Donahue
Manus J. Donahue Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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