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Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

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Computer Science

D-Index
66
Citations
20789
World Ranking
2291
National Ranking
1144

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to distributed robotics and the creation of the miniature scout robot

Overview

Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Health Informatics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses various topics including Renal cell carcinoma treatment, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, MRI in cancer diagnosis, Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging, Advanced Neural Network Applications, and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Christopher Weight, Resha Tejpaul, Nicholas Heller, Erick M. Remer, and Fabian Isensee.

Notable recent publications by Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos include:

  • An international challenge to use artificial intelligence to define the state-of-the-art in kidney and kidney tumor segmentation in CT imaging, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Public Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Medicine, 2020, Journal of Endourology
  • The state of the art in kidney and kidney tumor segmentation in contrast-enhanced CT imaging: Results of the KiTS19 challenge, 2020, Medical Image Analysis
  • The KiTS21 Challenge: Automatic segmentation of kidneys, renal tumors, and renal cysts in corticomedullary-phase CT, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Automatic Segmentation of Kidneys and Kidney Tumors: The KiTS19 International Challenge, 2022, Frontiers in Digital Health

The frequent venues where their work appears include The Journal of Urology, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Clinical Oncology, Frontiers in Digital Health, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

In addition to journal publications, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos has contributed to book literature, including a publication with Springer Science+Business Media titled Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation, released in 2022.

The scientist was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2007 for contributions to distributed robotics and the creation of the miniature scout robot.

Best Publications

  • Detection and classification of vehicles

    S. Gupte;O. Masoud;R.F.K. Martin;N.P. Papanikolopoulos

  • Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

    Janice L. Pearce;Paul E. Rybski;Sascha A. Stoeter;Nikolaos P Papanikolopoulos

  • Visual tracking of a moving target by a camera mounted on a robot: a combination of control and vision

    N.P. Papanikolopoulos;P.K. Khosla;T. Kanade

  • Multi-class active learning for image classification

    Ajay J Joshi;Fatih Porikli;Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

  • The state of the art in kidney and kidney tumor segmentation in contrast-enhanced CT imaging: Results of the KiTS19 challenge.

    Nicholas Heller;Fabian Isensee;Klaus H. Maier-Hein;Xiaoshuai Hou

  • Incremental fuzzy expert PID control

    S. Tzafestas;N.P. Papanikolopoulos

  • Adaptive robotic visual tracking: theory and experiments

    N.P. Papanikolopoulos;P.K. Khosla

  • Fast segmentation of 3D point clouds: A paradigm on LiDAR data for autonomous vehicle applications

    Dimitris Zermas;Izzat Izzat;Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

  • A novel method for tracking and counting pedestrians in real-time using a single camera

    O. Masoud;N.P. Papanikolopoulos

  • The KiTS19 Challenge Data: 300 Kidney Tumor Cases with Clinical Context, CT Semantic Segmentations, and Surgical Outcomes

    Nicholas Heller;Niranjan Sathianathen;Arveen Kalapara;Edward Walczak

  • Computer vision algorithms for intersection monitoring

    H. Veeraraghavan;O. Masoud;N.P. Papanikolopoulos

  • Miniature robotic vehicles and methods of controlling same

    Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos;Donald Krantz;Richard Voyles

  • Clustering of Vehicle Trajectories

    Stefan Atev;Grant Miller;Nikolaos P Papanikolopoulos

  • A miniature robotic system for reconnaissance and surveillance

    D.F. Hougen;S. Benjaafar;J.C. Bonney;J.R. Budenske

  • Detection of loitering individuals in public transportation areas

    N.D. Bird;O. Masoud;N.P. Papanikolopoulos;A. Isaacs

  • A method for human action recognition

    Osama Masoud;Nikolaos P Papanikolopoulos

  • Jensen-Bregman LogDet Divergence with Application to Efficient Similarity Search for Covariance Matrices

    A. Cherian;S. Sra;A. Banerjee;N. Papanikolopoulos

  • Vision and control techniques for robotic visual tracking

    N. Papanikolopoulos;P.K. Khosla;T. Kanada

  • Estimating pedestrian counts in groups

    Prahlad Kilambi;Evan Ribnick;Ajay J. Joshi;Osama Masoud

  • Monitoring activity using video information

    Osama Masoud;Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos;Nathaniel Bird

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Gini
Maria Gini University of Minnesota
Anoop Cherian
Anoop Cherian Mitsubishi Electric (United States)
Harini Veeraraghavan
Harini Veeraraghavan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Pradeep K. Khosla
Pradeep K. Khosla University of California, San Diego
Ioannis Pavlidis
Ioannis Pavlidis University of Houston
Paul Schrater
Paul Schrater University of Minnesota
Guillermo Sapiro
Guillermo Sapiro Princeton University
Scott A. Brandt
Scott A. Brandt University of California, Santa Cruz

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