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Jan Deprest

Jan Deprest

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Medicine

D-Index
106
Citations
44771
World Ranking
6485
National Ranking
75

Overview

Jan Deprest is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly within the field of medicine with a focus on surgery, pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their work spans important subfields including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, and obstetrics and gynecology.

Their research covers a variety of significant topics including congenital diaphragmatic hernia studies, neonatal respiratory health research, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, pelvic floor disorders treatments, prenatal screening and diagnostics, spinal dysraphism and malformations, and assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy.

Jan Deprest has authored numerous papers, among which notable recent publications include:

  • Randomized Trial of Fetal Surgery for Severe Left Diaphragmatic Hernia, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Randomized Trial of Fetal Surgery for Moderate Left Diaphragmatic Hernia, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Maternal outcomes and risk factors for COVID-19 severity among pregnant women, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • MIDeepSeg: Minimally interactive segmentation of unseen objects from medical images using deep learning, 2021, Medical Image Analysis

Frequent coauthors contributing with Jan Deprest include:

  • Francesca Maria Russo
  • Anna L. David
  • Tom Vercauteren
  • Michaël Aertsen
  • Sébastien Ourselin

Key publication venues for Jan Deprest's work comprise:

  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • International Urogynecology Journal

Best Publications

  • Endoscopic laser surgery versus serial amnioreduction for severe twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome

    Marie-Victoire Senat;Jan Deprest;Michel Boulvain;Alain Paupe

  • Aleatoric uncertainty estimation with test-time augmentation for medical image segmentation with convolutional neural networks.

    Guotai Wang;Guotai Wang;Guotai Wang;Wenqi Li;Wenqi Li;Michael Aertsen;Jan Deprest

  • Standardized Postnatal Management of Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia in Europe: The CDH EURO Consortium Consensus - 2015 Update

    Kitty G. Snoek;Irwin K.M. Reiss;Anne Greenough;Irma Capolupo

  • The outcome of monochorionic diamniotic twin gestations in the era of invasive fetal therapy: a prospective cohort study.

    Liesbeth Lewi;Jacques Jani;Isaac Blickstein;Agnes Huber

  • Observed to expected lung area to head circumference ratio in the prediction of survival in fetuses with isolated diaphragmatic hernia

    J.C. Jani;Kypros Nicolaides;R.L. Keller;A. Benachi

  • Fetoscopic tracheal occlusion (FETO) for severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia: evolution of a technique and preliminary results

    J Deprest;E Gratacos;K H Nicolaides

  • A classification system for selective intrauterine growth restriction in monochorionic pregnancies according to umbilical artery Doppler flow in the smaller twin.

    E Gratacós;Liesbeth Lewi;B Muñoz;R Acosta-Rojas

  • Severe diaphragmatic hernia treated by fetal endoscopic tracheal occlusion.

    J C Jani;K H Nicolaides;E Gratacós;C M Valencia

  • DeepIGeoS: A Deep Interactive Geodesic Framework for Medical Image Segmentation

    Guotai Wang;Maria A. Zuluaga;Wenqi Li;Rosalind Pratt

  • Prevalence and management of late fetal complications following successful selective laser coagulation of chorionic plate anastomoses in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

    Romaine Robyr;Liesbeth Lewi;Laurent J. Salomon;Masami Yamamoto

  • An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA)/International Continence Society (ICS) joint terminology and classification of the complications related directly to the insertion of prostheses (meshes, implants, tapes) and grafts in female pelvic floor surgery.

    Bernard T. Haylen;Robert M. Freeman;Steven E. Swift;Michel Cosson

  • Prenatal prediction of survival in isolated left-sided diaphragmatic hernia.

    J. Jani;R.L. Keller;A. Benachi;K.H. Nicolaides

  • An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) / International Continence Society (ICS) joint terminology and classification of the complications related directly to the insertion of prostheses (meshes, implants, tapes) & grafts in female pelvic floor surgery.

    Bernard T. Haylen;Robert M. Freeman;Steven E. Swift;Michel Cosson

  • Fetoscopic laser coagulation of the vascular equator versus selective coagulation for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome: an open-label randomised controlled trial

    Femke Slaghekke;Enrico Lopriore;Liesbeth Lewi;Johanna M Middeldorp

  • Standardized postnatal management of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in Europe

    Kitty G. Snoek;Irwin K M Reiss;Anne Greenough;Irma Capolupo

  • Prenatal detection and outcome of congenital diaphragmatic hernia : a French registry-based study

    D. Gallot;C. Boda;S. Ughetto;I. Perthus

  • Placental sharing, birthweight discordance, and vascular anastomoses in monochorionic diamniotic twin placentas

    Liesbeth Lewi;Mieke Cannie;Isaac Blickstein;Jacques Jani

  • Hernia repair: the search for ideal meshes

    S. Bringman;J. Conze;D. Cuccurullo;J. Deprest

  • Morphological and functional adaptation of the maternal heart during pregnancy.

    Oana Savu;Ruxandra Jurcuţ;Sorin Giuşcă;Tim van Mieghem

  • Monochorionic diamniotic twins: complications and management options.

    Liesbeth Lewi;Dominique Van Schoubroeck;Eduard Gratacós;Ingrid Witters

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Vercauteren
Tom Vercauteren King's College London
Eduard Gratacós
Eduard Gratacós University of Barcelona
Kypros H. Nicolaides
Kypros H. Nicolaides King's College London
Dirk De Ridder
Dirk De Ridder University of Otago
Sebastien Ourselin
Sebastien Ourselin King's College London
Zeger Debyser
Zeger Debyser KU Leuven
Danail Stoyanov
Danail Stoyanov University College London
Yves Ville
Yves Ville Université Paris Cité
Anne Greenough
Anne Greenough King's College London

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