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Overview

Robert A. Zimmerman was affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research spanned several interdisciplinary fields with a focus on statistical methods, astrophysics, and medical imaging.

Their research contributions included work in the following main topics:

  • Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • RNA regulation and disease

Zimmerman's research output covered multiple subfields of study including:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Surgery
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Frequent collaborators in their work were:

  • Radu V. Craiu
  • Vianey Leos-Barajas
  • Daniel M. Tartakovsky
  • David A. van Dyk
  • V. Kashyap

Zimmerman published extensively across several scientific venues. Notable publication venues included:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association
  • American Journal of Neuroradiology

Their recent papers demonstrated a variety of research interests and methodologies. Selected publications include:

  • Solute dispersion in bifurcating networks (2020) published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • MR Imaging of White Matter Disease in Children (2024) published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology
  • Separating states in astronomical sources using hidden Markov models: with a case study of flaring and quiescence on EV Lac (2024) published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Copula Modeling of Serially Correlated Multivariate Data with Hidden Structures (2023) published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association

Robert A. Zimmerman's body of work reflected cross-disciplinary scholarship, with a particular emphasis on statistical and Bayesian modeling techniques applied to biomedical and astrophysical data.

Best Publications

  • Prevention of a First Stroke by Transfusions in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia and Abnormal Results on Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography

    R J Adams;V C McKie;L Hsu;B Files

  • 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

  • Intracranial hematomas: imaging by high-field MR.

    J M Gomori;R I Grossman;H I Goldberg;R A Zimmerman

  • Nonaccidental head injury in infants--the "shaken-baby syndrome".

    Ann-Christine Duhaime;Cindy W. Christian;Lucy Balian Rorke;Robert A. Zimmerman

  • Brain maturation is delayed in infants with complex congenital heart defects

    Daniel J. Licht;David M. Shera;Robert R. Clancy;Gil Wernovsky

  • An MRI study of neurological injury before and after congenital heart surgery.

    William T. Mahle;Federica Tavani;Robert A. Zimmerman;Susan C. Nicolson

  • Cognitive functioning and brain magnetic resonance imaging in children with sickle Cell disease. Neuropsychology Committee of the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease.

    Armstrong Fd;Thompson Rj;Wang W;Zimmerman R

  • Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with glial tumors: a multicenter study

    William G. Negendank;Rolf Sauter;Truman R. Brown;Jeffrey L. Evelhoch

  • Total and regional brain volumes in a population-based normative sample from 4 to 18 years: The NIH MRI study of normal brain development

    W. S. Ball;A. W. Byars;M. Schapiro;W. Bommer

  • Magnetic resonance scans should replace biopsies for the diagnosis of diffuse brain stem gliomas: a report from the Children's Cancer Group.

    A. Albright;Roger Packer;Robert Zimmerman;Lucy Rorke

  • Brain MR: Pathologic Correlation with Gross and Histopathology. 2. Hyperintense White-Matter Foci in the Elderly

    Bruce H. Braffman;Robert A. Zimmerman;John Q. Trojanowski;Nicholas K. Gonatas

  • Brain MR: pathologic correlation with gross and histopathology. 1. Lacunar infarction and Virchow-Robin spaces.

    Bruce H. Braffman;Robert A. Zimmerman;John Q. Trojanowski;Nicholas K. Gonatas

  • Longitudinal changes in brain magnetic resonance imaging findings in children with sickle cell disease

    Charles H. Pegelow;Eric A. Macklin;Franklin G. Moser;Winfred C. Wang

  • Analysis of brain and cerebrospinal fluid volumes with MR imaging. Part I. Methods, reliability, and validation.

    M I Kohn;N K Tanna;G T Herman;S M Resnick

  • Neuropsychologic performance in school-aged children with sickle cell disease: a report from the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease.

    Winfred Wang;Laura Enos;Dianne Gallagher;Robert Thompson

  • Periventricular leukomalacia is common after neonatal cardiac surgery.

    Kristen K Galli;Robert A Zimmerman;Gail P Jarvik;Gil Wernovsky

  • Preoperative cerebral blood flow is diminished in neonates with severe congenital heart defects.

    Daniel J. Licht;Jiongjiong Wang;David W. Silvestre;Susan C. Nicolson

  • Silent Cerebral Infarcts in Sickle Cell Anemia: A Risk Factor Analysis

    Thomas R. Kinney;Lynn A. Sleeper;Winfred C. Wang;Robert A. Zimmerman

  • Neurofibromatosis type 1: Pathologic substrate of high-signal-intensity foci in the brain

    D P DiPaolo;R A Zimmerman;L B Rorke;E H Zackai

  • Magnetic Resonance Scans Should Replace Biopsies for the Diagnosis of Diffuse Brain Stem Gliomas

    A. Leland Albright;Roger J. Packer;Robert Zimmerman;Lucy B. Rorke

Frequent Co-Authors

Larissa T. Bilaniuk
Larissa T. Bilaniuk Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Robert I. Grossman
Robert I. Grossman New York University
Roger J. Packer
Roger J. Packer Children’s National Health System
Leslie N. Sutton
Leslie N. Sutton University of Pennsylvania
Lucy B. Rorke
Lucy B. Rorke Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Peter J. Savino
Peter J. Savino University of California, San Diego
Robert R. Clancy
Robert R. Clancy New York University
Abass Alavi
Abass Alavi University of Pennsylvania
J. William Gaynor
J. William Gaynor Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Gil Wernovsky
Gil Wernovsky Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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