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D. Louis Collins

D. Louis Collins

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Computer Science
Canada
2025

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Medicine

D-Index
119
Citations
72137
World Ranking
3824
National Ranking
152

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

D. Louis Collins is a researcher affiliated with McGill University in Canada, specializing in medicine with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases and neuroimaging. Their work spans several subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research concentrates on topics such as dementia and cognitive impairment research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neurological disease mechanisms and treatments, advanced MRI techniques, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments.

Among their recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Association of Elevated Amyloid and Tau Positron Emission Tomography Signal With Near-Term Development of Alzheimer Disease Symptoms in Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Open science datasets from PREVENT-AD, a longitudinal cohort of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease, 2021, NeuroImage Clinical
  • CerebrA, registration and manual label correction of Mindboggle-101 atlas for MNI-ICBM152 template, 2020, Scientific Data
  • The BigBrainWarp toolbox for integration of BigBrain 3D histology with multimodal neuroimaging, 2021, eLife
  • Network structure and transcriptomic vulnerability shape atrophy in frontotemporal dementia, 2022, Brain

Frequent co-authors collaborating with D. Louis Collins include:

  • Mahsa Dadar
  • Vladimir Fonov
  • Simon Ducharme
  • Alan C. Evans
  • Sylvia Villeneuve

The scientist publishes regularly in various venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Brain Communications

Best Publications

  • The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS)

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

  • Automatic 3D intersubject registration of MR volumetric data in standardized Talairach space

    D L Collins;P Neelin;T M Peters;A C Evans

  • 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

  • Unbiased Average Age-Appropriate Atlases for Pediatric Studies

    Vladimir S. Fonov;Alan C. Evans;Kelly N. Botteron;C. Robert Almli

  • Design and construction of a realistic digital brain phantom

    D.L. Collins;A.P. Zijdenbos;V. Kollokian;J.G. Sled

  • 3D statistical neuroanatomical models from 305 MRI volumes

    A.C. Evans;D.L. Collins;S.R. Mills;E.D. Brown

  • Structural Maturation of Neural Pathways in Children and Adolescents: In Vivo Study

    Tomáš Paus;Alex Zijdenbos;Keith Worsley;D. Louis Collins

  • Enhancement of MR images using registration for signal averaging

    Colin J. Holmes;Rick Hoge;Louis Collins;Roger Woods

  • Automatic 3-D model-based neuroanatomical segmentation

    D. Louis Collins;C. J. Holmes;T. M. Peters;A. C. Evans

  • Adaptive non‐local means denoising of MR images with spatially varying noise levels

    José V. Manjón;Pierrick Coupé;Luis Martí-Bonmatí;D. Louis Collins

  • Early brain development in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder

    Heather Cody Hazlett;Hongbin Gu;Brent C. Munsell;Sun Hyung Kim

  • Maturation of white matter in the human brain: a review of magnetic resonance studies.

    T Paus;D.L Collins;A.C Evans;G Leonard

  • Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Volumetry of Hippocampus and Amygdala with High-resolution MRI and Three-dimensional Analysis Software: Minimizing the Discrepancies between Laboratories

    J.C. Pruessner;L.M. Li;W. Serles;M. Pruessner

  • Patch-based segmentation using expert priors: application to hippocampus and ventricle segmentation.

    Pierrick Coupé;José V. Manjón;Vladimir S. Fonov;Jens C. Pruessner

  • Brain templates and atlases

    Alan C. Evans;Andrew L. Janke;D. Louis Collins;Sylvain Baillet

  • Symmetric atlasing and model based segmentation: an application to the hippocampus in older adults

    Günther Grabner;Andrew L. Janke;Marc M. Budge;David Smith

  • Structural Asymmetries in the Human Brain: a Voxel-based Statistical Analysis of 142 MRI Scans

    K E Watkins;T Paus;J P Lerch;A Zijdenbos

  • Incorporating Prior Knowledge into Image Registration

    J. Ashburner;P. Neelin;D.L. Collins;A. Evans

  • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention − MICCAI 2017

    Maxime Descoteaux;Lena Maier-Hein;Alfred Franz;Pierre Jannin

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir S. Fonov
Vladimir S. Fonov McGill University
Douglas L. Arnold
Douglas L. Arnold Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Pierrick Coupé
Pierrick Coupé University of Bordeaux
M. Mallar Chakravarty
M. Mallar Chakravarty McGill University
Jens C. Pruessner
Jens C. Pruessner University of Konstanz
Tal Arbel
Tal Arbel McGill University
G. Bruce Pike
G. Bruce Pike University of Calgary
Sridar Narayanan
Sridar Narayanan Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
José V. Manjón
José V. Manjón Universitat Politècnica de València

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