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D-Index
65
Citations
42834
World Ranking
3055
National Ranking
1415

Best Publications

  • The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS)

    Bjoern H. Menze;Andras Jakab;Stefan Bauer;Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

  • Symmetric diffeomorphic image registration with cross-correlation: evaluating automated labeling of elderly and neurodegenerative brain.

    Brian B. Avants;Charles L. Epstein;Murray Grossman;James C. Gee

  • A reproducible evaluation of ANTs similarity metric performance in brain image registration.

    Brian B. Avants;Nicholas J. Tustison;Gang Song;Philip A. Cook

  • Evaluation of 14 nonlinear deformation algorithms applied to human brain MRI registration.

    Arno Klein;Jesper L. R. Andersson;Babak A. Ardekani;Babak A. Ardekani;John Ashburner

  • Large-scale evaluation of ANTs and FreeSurfer cortical thickness measurements.

    Nicholas J. Tustison;Philip A. Cook;Arno Klein;Gang Song

  • The optimal template effect in hippocampus studies of diseased populations

    Brian B. Avants;Paul A. Yushkevich;John Pluta;David Minkoff

  • The Insight ToolKit image registration framework

    Brian B. Avants;Nicholas J. Tustison;Michael Stauffer;Gang Song

  • An Open Source Multivariate Framework for n-Tissue Segmentation with Evaluation on Public Data

    Brian B. Avants;Nicholas J. Tustison;Jue Wu;Philip A. Cook

  • Early stress is associated with alterations in the orbitofrontal cortex: a tensor-based morphometry investigation of brain structure and behavioral risk.

    Jamie L. Hanson;Moo K. Chung;Brian B. Avants;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff

  • Geodesic estimation for large deformation anatomical shape averaging and interpolation

    Brian Avants;James C. Gee

  • Associations between children's socioeconomic status and prefrontal cortical thickness.

    Gwendolyn M. Lawson;Jeffrey T. Duda;Brian B. Avants;Jue Wu

  • Age-Related Effects and Sex Differences in Gray Matter Density, Volume, Mass, and Cortical Thickness from Childhood to Young Adulthood.

    Efstathios D. Gennatas;Brian B. Avants;Daniel H. Wolf;Theodore D. Satterthwaite

  • Evaluation of volume-based and surface-based brain image registration methods

    Arno Klein;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Brian Avants;B.T.T. Yeo

  • Optimal Symmetric Multimodal Templates and Concatenated Random Forests for Supervised Brain Tumor Segmentation (Simplified) with ANTsR

    Nicholas J. Tustison;K. L. Shrinidhi;Max Wintermark;Christopher R. Durst

  • Registration based cortical thickness measurement

    Sandhitsu R. Das;Brian B. Avants;Murray Grossman;James C. Gee

  • High-Dimensional Spatial Normalization of Diffusion Tensor Images Improves the Detection of White Matter Differences: An Example Study Using Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Hui Zhang;B.B. Avants;P.A. Yushkevich;J.H. Woo

  • Medial temporal structures and memory functions in adolescents with heavy cannabis use

    Manzar Ashtari;Brian Avants;Laura Cyckowski;Kelly L. Cervellione

  • Nearly Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampal Subfields in In Vivo Focal T2-Weighted MRI

    Paul A. Yushkevich;Hongzhi Wang;John Pluta;Sandhitsu R. Das

  • Early parental care is important for hippocampal maturation: Evidence from brain morphology in humans

    Hengyi Rao;Laura M. Betancourt;Joan M. Giannetta;Nancy L. Brodsky

  • Structural Variations in Prefrontal Cortex Mediate the Relationship between Early Childhood Stress and Spatial Working Memory

    Jamie L. Hanson;Moo K. Chung;Brian B. Avants;Karen D. Rudolph

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Grossman
Murray Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Philip A. Cook
Philip A. Cook University of Pennsylvania
Sandhitsu R. Das
Sandhitsu R. Das University of Pennsylvania
Corey T. McMillan
Corey T. McMillan University of Pennsylvania
David A. Wolk
David A. Wolk University of Pennsylvania
Hengyi Rao
Hengyi Rao University of Pennsylvania
Michael A. Yassa
Michael A. Yassa University of California, Irvine
Danny J.J. Wang
Danny J.J. Wang University of California, Los Angeles
H. Branch Coslett
H. Branch Coslett University of Pennsylvania
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison

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