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7743
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William E. Higgins publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William E. Higgins sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 215 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

William E. Higgins D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William E. Higgins sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to three-dimensional medical imaging and processing.

Overview

William E. Higgins is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant concentration in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Additional subfields include Surgery, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiation, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics covered in their work are:

  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment

William E. Higgins has contributed to several journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Medical Imaging
  • Journal of Imaging
  • Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent papers include:

  • Image-guided EBUS bronchoscopy system for lung-cancer staging, 2021, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
  • Multimodal Registration for Image-Guided EBUS Bronchoscopy, 2022, Journal of Imaging
  • Endobronchial Ultrasound Image Simulation for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • Automatic lesion detection for narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy, 2024, Journal of Medical Imaging
  • ESFPNet: efficient deep learning architecture for real-time lesion segmentation in autofluorescence bronchoscopic video, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Rebecca Bascom
  • Jennifer Toth
  • Trevor Kuhlengel
  • Wennan Zhao
  • Danish Ahmad

William E. Higgins received the IEEE Fellow award in 2004 for contributions to three-dimensional medical imaging and processing.

Best Publications

  • Optimal Gabor filters for texture segmentation

    D. Dunn;W.E. Higgins

  • Texture segmentation using 2-D Gabor elementary functions

    D. Dunn;W.E. Higgins;J. Wakeley

  • Efficient Gabor filter design for texture segmentation

    Thomas P. Weldon;William E. Higgins;Dennis F. Dunn

  • Symmetric region growing

    S.-Y. Wan;W.E. Higgins

  • Three-Dimensional Human Airway Segmentation Methods for Clinical Virtual Bronchoscopy☆

    Atilla P. Kiraly;William E. Higgins;William E. Higgins;Geoffrey McLennan;Eric A. Hoffman

  • Virtual bronchoscopy for three--dimensional pulmonary image assessment: state of the art and future needs.

    William E. Higgins;Krishnan Ramaswamy;Roderick D. Swift;Geoffrey McLennan

  • Method and apparatus for continuous guidance of endoscopy

    William E. Higgins;Scott A. Merritt;Lav Rai;Jason D. Gibbs

  • Three-dimensional path planning for virtual bronchoscopy

    A.P. Kiraly;J.P. Helferty;E.A. Hoffman;G. McLennan

  • Videoendoscopic distortion correction and its application to virtual guidance of endoscopy

    J.P. Helferty;Chao Zhang;G. McLennan;W.E. Higgins

  • Gabor filter design for multiple texture segmentation

    Thomas P. Weldon;William E. Higgins;Dennis F. Dunn

  • Fast 3d-2d image registration method with application to continuously guided endoscopy

    William E. Higgins;Scott A. Merritt;Lav Rai

  • Extraction of the hepatic vasculature in rats using 3-D micro-CT images

    Shu-Yen Wan;A.P. Kiraly;E.L. Ritman;W.E. Higgins

  • 3D CT-video fusion for image-guided bronchoscopy.

    William E. Higgins;James P. Helferty;James P. Helferty;Kongkuo Lu;Scott A. Merritt

  • Robust 3-D Airway Tree Segmentation for Image-Guided Peripheral Bronchoscopy

    M.W. Graham;J.D. Gibbs;D.C. Cornish;W.E. Higgins

  • Shape-based interpolation of tree-like structures in three-dimensional images

    W.E. Higgins;C. Morice;E.L. Ritman

  • Computer-based system for the virtual-endoscopic guidance of bronchoscopy

    J. P. Helferty;A. J. Sherbondy;A. P. Kiraly;W. E. Higgins

  • Interactive morphological watershed analysis for 3D medical images

    William E Higgins;Eric J Ojard

  • Noise reduction strategies for digital filters: Error spectrum shaping versus the optimal linear state-space formulation

    W. Higgins;D. Munson

  • System for analyzing high-resolution three-dimensional coronary angiograms

    W.E. Higgins;W.J.T. Spyra;R.A. Karwoski;E.L. Ritman

  • Developing Larger TlBr Detectors—Detector Performance

    H. Kim;L. Cirignano;A. Churilov;G. Ciampi

  • Extraction of left-ventricular chamber from 3-D CT images of the heart

    W.E. Higgins;N. Chung;E.L. Ritman

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph M. Reinhardt
Joseph M. Reinhardt University of Iowa
Eric A. Hoffman
Eric A. Hoffman University of Iowa
Erik L. Ritman
Erik L. Ritman Mayo Clinic
Milan Sonka
Milan Sonka University of Iowa

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