2026 Kevin J. Parker: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	71	959	328	443	18718

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2013 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
2007 - ACM Senior Member
1995 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the advancement of medical ultrasound, including the development of sonoelasticity imaging and ultrasound contrast agents.

Overview

Kevin J. Parker is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a notable focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's main research topics cover multiple facets of ultrasound technology and medical imaging:

Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
AI in cancer detection
Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Kevin J. Parker has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physics in Medicine and Biology
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
Acoustics
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Kevin J. Parker include:

"Elastography imaging: the 30 year perspective," 2020, Physics in Medicine and Biology
"Multiparametric ultrasound imaging for the assessment of normal versus steatotic livers," 2021, Scientific Reports
"Diagnostic Performance of an Artificial Intelligence System in Breast Ultrasound," 2021, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
"Clusters of Ultrasound Scattering Parameters for the Classification of Steatotic and Normal Livers," 2021, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
"Comprehensive experimental assessments of rheological models' performance in elastography of soft tissues," 2022, Acta Biomaterialia

Kevin J. Parker has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Jihye Baek
Juvenal Ormachea
Sedigheh S. Poul
Jannick P. Rolland
Avice M. O'Connell

The scientist's contributions have been recognized through multiple awards, such as:

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2016)
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2013)
ACM Senior Member (2007)
IEEE Fellow (1995) for contributions to the advancement of medical ultrasound, including the development of sonoelasticity imaging and ultrasound contrast agents

Best Publications

IMAGING OF THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF TISSUE-A REVIEW

L. Gao;K.J. Parker;K.J. Parker;R.M. Lerner;S.F. Levinson;S.F. Levinson

713
Citations
Tissue response to mechanical vibrations for “sonoelasticity imaging”

K.J. Parker;S.R. Huang;R.A. Musulin;R.M. Lerner

676
Citations
“Sonoelasticity” images derived from ultrasound signals in mechanically vibrated tissues

Robert M. Lerner;S.R. Huang;Kevin J. Parker

641
Citations
Imaging the elastic properties of tissue: the 20 year perspective.

K J Parker;M M Doyley;D J Rubens

612
Citations
Ultrasmall, non-aggregated porous particles of uniform size for entrapping gas bubbles within and methods

Michael R. Violante;Kevin J. Parker

534
Citations
Contrast agents in diagnostic ultrasound.

Jonathan Ophir;Kevin J. Parker

474
Citations
Image segmentation via adaptive K-mean clustering and knowledge-based morphological operations with biomedical applications

C.W. Chen;J. Luo;K.J. Parker

438
Citations
Method and apparatus for halftone rendering of a gray scale image using a blue noise mask

Kevin J. Parker;Theophano Mitsa

419
Citations
Tissue elasticity properties as biomarkers for prostate cancer.

Kenneth Hoyt;Benjamin Castaneda;Man Zhang;Priya Nigwekar

355
Citations
Deviations from Rayleigh statistics in ultrasonic speckle.

T.A. Tuthill;R.H. Sperry;K.J. Parker

352
Citations
Digital halftoning technique using a blue-noise mask

Theophano Mitsa;Kevin J. Parker

318
Citations
Sono-Elasticity: Medical Elasticity Images Derived from Ultrasound Signals in Mechanically Vibrated Targets

Robert M. Lerner;Kevin J. Parker;Jarle Holen;Raymond Gramiak

309
Citations
Three-dimensional sonoelastography: principles and practices.

L S Taylor;B C Porter;D J Rubens;K J Parker

259
Citations
QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF HUMAN PROSTATE CORRELATED WITH HISTOLOGY

Man Zhang;Priya Nigwekar;Benjamin Castaneda;Kenneth Hoyt

255
Citations
New approaches to nonlinear diffractive field propagation

P. Ted Christopher;Kevin J. Parker

247
Citations
Non-invasive quantitative reconstruction of tissue elasticity using an iterative forward approach.

D Fu;S F Levinson;S M Gracewski;K J Parker

236
Citations
Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive muscle force: an ex-vivo study.

Terry K. Koo;Jing-Yi Guo;Jeffrey H. Cohen;Kevin J. Parker

214
Citations
Feature-adaptive motion tracking of ultrasound image sequences using a deformable mesh

Fai Yeung;S.F. Levinson;Dongshan Fu;K.J. Parker

213
Citations
MULTILEVEL AND MOTION MODEL-BASED ULTRASONIC SPECKLE TRACKING ALGORITHMS

Fai Yeung;Stephen F Levinson;Kevin J Parker

212
Citations
Techniques for elastic imaging: a review

K.J. Parker;L. Gao;R.M. Lerner;S.F. Levinson

210
Citations
Sonoelasticity of organs: shear waves ring a bell.

K J Parker;R M Lerner

207
Citations