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Dirk Timmerman

Dirk Timmerman

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
40297
World Ranking
6780
National Ranking
78

Overview

Dirk Timmerman is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Medicine, Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Oncology.

The research topics covered by Timmerman include:

  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
  • Endometriosis Research and Treatment
  • Uterine Myomas and Treatments
  • Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management
  • Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies
  • Gynecological conditions and treatments

Dirk Timmerman has authored and co-authored numerous publications, with recent notable papers listed as follows:

  • ESGO/ISUOG/IOTA/ESGE Consensus Statement on pre-operative diagnosis of ovarian tumors, 2021, International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
  • Validation of models to diagnose ovarian cancer in patients managed surgically or conservatively: multicentre cohort study, 2020, BMJ
  • Developing Organoids from Ovarian Cancer as Experimental and Preclinical Models, 2020, Stem Cell Reports
  • Consensus on revised definitions of Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) features of adenomyosis: results of modified Delphi procedure, 2021, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • The harm of class imbalance corrections for risk prediction models: illustration and simulation using logistic regression, 2022, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Dirk Timmerman frequently publishes in several venues, with the top ones being:

  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
  • BMJ Open
  • Human Reproduction

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • T. Bourne
  • Ben Van Calster
  • Wouter Froyman
  • L. Valentin
  • A. C. Testa

Best Publications

  • The EFSUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Practice of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS): Update 2011 on non-hepatic applications

    F Piscaglia;C Nolsøe;C F Dietrich;D O Cosgrove

  • Terms, definitions and measurements to describe the sonographic features of adnexal tumors: a consensus opinion from the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) group

    Dirk Timmerman;L Valentin;Tom Bourne;W P Collins

  • ESMO-ESGO consensus conference recommendations on ovarian cancer: pathology and molecular biology, early and advanced stages, borderline tumours and recurrent disease

    N. Colombo;C. Sessa;A. du Bois;J. Ledermann

  • Prognostic importance of degree of differentiation and cyst rupture in stage I invasive epithelial ovarian carcinoma

    Ignace Vergote;Jos De Brabanter;Anthony Fyles;Kamma Bertelsen

  • Systematic approach to sonographic evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group

    S. Guerriero;G. Condous;T. Van Den Bosch;L. Valentin

  • Simple ultrasound-based rules for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer

    D Timmerman;Antonia Carla Testa;T Bourne;L Ameye

  • High prevalence of endometriosis in infertile women with normal ovulation and normospermic partners

    Christel Meuleman;Birgit Vandenabeele;Steffen Fieuws;Carl Spiessens

  • Terms, definitions and measurements to describe sonographic features of myometrium and uterine masses: a consensus opinion from the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) group

    T. van den Bosch;M. Dueholm;F. P. G. Leone;Lil Valentin

  • Logistic Regression Model to Distinguish Between the Benign and Malignant Adnexal Mass Before Surgery: A Multicenter Study by the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis Group

    Dirk Timmerman;Antonia Carla Testa;Tom Bourne;Enrico Ferrazzi

  • Simple ultrasound rules to distinguish between benign and malignant adnexal masses before surgery: prospective validation by IOTA group

    Dirk Timmerman;Lieveke Ameye;Daniela Fischerova;Elisabeth Epstein

  • Clinical management of uterine sarcomas

    Frédéric Amant;An Coosemans;Maria Debiec-Rychter;Dirk Timmerman

  • Predicting the prognosis of breast cancer by integrating clinical and microarray data with Bayesian networks

    Olivier Gevaert;Frank De Smet;Dirk Timmerman;Yves Moreau

  • Evaluating the risk of ovarian cancer before surgery using the ADNEX model to differentiate between benign, borderline, early and advanced stage invasive, and secondary metastatic tumours: prospective multicentre diagnostic study.

    Ben Van Calster;Kirsten Van Hoorde;Lil Valentin;Antonia C Testa

  • Patient-derived organoids from endometrial disease capture clinical heterogeneity and are amenable to drug screening

    Matteo Boretto;Nina Maenhoudt;Xinlong Luo;Aurélie Hennes

  • HE4 and CA125 as a diagnostic test in ovarian cancer: prospective validation of the Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Algorithm

    T Van Gorp;I Cadron;E Despierre;A Daemen

  • The accuracy of transvaginal ultrasonography for the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy prior to surgery

    George Condous;Emeka Okaro;Asma Khalid;Chuan Lu

  • Development of organoids from mouse and human endometrium showing endometrial epithelium physiology and long-term expandability

    Matteo Giovanni Maria Boretto;Benoit Cox;Manuel Noben;Nikolai Hendriks

  • Pregnancy of unknown location: a consensus statement of nomenclature, definitions, and outcome

    Kurt Barnhart;Norah M. van Mello;Tom Bourne;Tom Bourne;Emma Kirk

  • Predicting the risk of malignancy in adnexal masses based on the Simple Rules from the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis group

    Dirk Timmerman;Ben Van Calster;Antonia Testa;Luca Savelli

  • Reply of the Authors: Endometriosis: is laparoscopy justified without previous ultrasonogram and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)? & High prevalence of endometriosis in infertile women with normal ovulation and normospermic partners

    Christel Meuleman;Carla Tomassetti;Dirk Timmerman;Thomas D'Hooghe

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Bourne
Tom Bourne Imperial College London
Lil Valentin
Lil Valentin Lund University
Patrick Neven
Patrick Neven KU Leuven
Bart De Moor
Bart De Moor KU Leuven
Davor Jurkovic
Davor Jurkovic University College London
Jan Deprest
Jan Deprest KU Leuven

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