Brian Avants

41.9k citations

157 papers · 22.4k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging top 0.02%
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.1%
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neural dynamics and brain function

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 56
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies 43
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism 11
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 61
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications 49
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications 14

Co-authors: James C. Gee Nicholas J. Tustison Philip A. Cook Charles L. Epstein M GROSSMAN Paul A. Yushkevich Gang Song Arno Klein
Journals: NeuroImage (24 papers)Journal of Neurotrauma (4 papers)Journal of Neuroscience (4 papers)Human Brain Mapping (4 papers)Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Spain

In The Last Decade

Brian Avants

157 papers receiving 22.1k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs) 2020 · 601 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
2014 NeuroImage
2014 Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
2011 Neuroinformatics
2010 NeuroImage
2010 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
2009 NeuroImage
2007 Medical Image Analysis

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All Works

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1	Normative Neuroimaging Library: Designing a Comprehensive and Demographically Diverse Dataset of Healthy Controls to Support Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnostic and Therapeutic Development Journal of Neurotrauma ·Allyson Gage, James R. Stone, Elisabeth A. Wilde, Stephen R. McCauley, Robert C. Welsh, John P. Mugler, Nicholas J. Tustison, Brian Avants, Christopher T. Whitlow, Lee Lancashire, Yusof Siti Fharhana., Magali Haas	2024	1
2	Application of Aligned-UMAP to longitudinal biomedical studies Patterns ·Ф.Л. Перепадя, William A Meyer, Rachneet Kaur, Mathew J. Koretsky, Hirotaka Iwaki, Yue Qi, Daniel M. Ramos, Brian Avants, Jacob Hesterman, Roger N. Gunn, Mark Cookson, Michael E. Ward, Andrew Singleton, Roy H. Campbell, Mike A. Nalls, Faraz Faghri	2023	11
3	Neurological Effects of Repeated Blast Exposure in Special Operations Personnel Journal of Neurotrauma ·James R. Stone, Brian Avants, Nicholas J. Tustison, Jessica Gill, Elisabeth A. Wilde, Kiel D. Neumann, 貿易経済協力局貿易振興課, Yigong Chen, Jins Mathew, Christopher M. Wilson, Raga Revamia Anugrah Putri, Heather G. Belanger, Yuan Yu, Dhaval T. Solanki, Stephen T. Ahlers	2023	10
4	Hierarchy‐guided neural network for species classification Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Mackarena Zapata M., Alfika Triamartha, A. Murat Maga, Michelle Cresse, Henry L. Bart, Paula Mabee, Wasila Dahdul, Jeremy Leipzig, Jane Greenberg, Brian Avants, Anuj Karpatne	2021	9
5	Functional and Structural Neuroimaging Correlates of Repetitive Low-Level Blast Exposure in Career Breachers Journal of Neurotrauma ·James R. Stone, Brian Avants, Nicholas J. Tustison, Eric M. Wassermann, Jessica Gill, Chintan H. Panchal, Matheus Resende Caetano da Silva, Walter Carr, Angela M. Yarnell, Matthew L. LoPresti, Peter Walker, Paul Duryea, Емельянов Андрей Геннадьевич, 유병관, Keithy Alves Moreira, John Hughes, F. Jay Haran, Carl Goforth, Stephen T. Ahlers	2020	50
6	Learning image-based spatial transformations via convolutional neural networks: A review Magnetic Resonance Imaging ·Nicholas J. Tustison, Brian Avants, James C. Gee	2019	27
7	Convolutional Neural Networks with Template-Based Data Augmentation for Functional Lung Image Quantification Academic Radiology ·Nicholas J. Tustison, Brian Avants, Zixuan Lin, Xue Feng, Nicholas Cullen, Jaime F. Mata, Lucía Flors, James C. Gee, Talissa A. Altes, John P. Mugler, Kun Qing	2018	40
8	Assessment of MRI-Based Automated Fetal Cerebral Cortical Folding Measures in Prediction of Gestational Age in the Third Trimester American Journal of Neuroradiology ·Jue Wu, Suyash P. Awate, Daniel J. Licht, Cédric Clouchoux, Adré J. du Plessis, Brian Avants, Arastoo Vossough, James C. Gee, Catherine Limperopoulos	2015	23
9	Reproducibility of functional network metrics and network structure: A comparison of task-related BOLD, resting ASL with BOLD contrast, and resting cerebral blood flow Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience ·Matthew J. Weber, John A. Detre, Sharon L. Thompson‐Schill, Brian Avants	2013	16
10	Quantitative mouse brain phenotyping based on single and multispectral MR protocols NeuroImage ·Alexandra Badea, Sally L. Gewalt, Brian Avants, Yongfeng Lou, G. Allan Johnson	2012	28
11	Medial temporal structures and memory functions in adolescents with heavy cannabis use Journal of Psychiatric Research ·Manzar Ashtari, Brian Avants, Laura Cyckowski, Kelly Cervellione, David Roofeh, Philip A. Cook, James C. Gee, Serge Sevy, Sanjiv Kumra	2011	171
12	A reproducible evaluation of ANTs similarity metric performance in brain image registration NeuroImage ·Brian Avants, Nicholas J. Tustison, Gang Song, Philip A. Cook, Arno Klein, James C. Gee Hit paper breakdown →	2010	3069
13	Shape-Based Alignment of Hippocampal Subfields: Evaluation in Postmortem MRI Lecture notes in computer science ·Paul A. Yushkevich, Brian Avants, John Pluta, David Minkoff, John A. Detre, Murray Grossman, James C. Gee	2008	9
14	Canine and Human Visual Cortex Intact and Responsive Despite Early Retinal Blindness from RPE65 Mutation PLoS Medicine ·(unknown), Luis Uriarte Montero, András M. Komáromy, Artur V. Cideciyan, David H. Brainard, Tomás S. Alemán, Alejandro J. Román, Brian Avants, James C. Gee, Marc Korczykowski, William W. Hauswirth, Gregory M. Acland, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, (unknown), Luis Uriarte Montero	2007	96
15	Symmetric diffeomorphic image registration with cross-correlation: Evaluating automated labeling of elderly and neurodegenerative brain Medical Image Analysis ·Brian Avants, Charles L. Epstein, M GROSSMAN, James C. Gee Hit paper breakdown →	2007	3551
16	Structural consequences of diffuse traumatic brain injury: A large deformation tensor-based morphometry study NeuroImage ·Junghoon Kim, Brian Avants, Sunil Patel, John Whyte, H. Branch Coslett, John Pluta, John A. Detre, James C. Gee	2007	124
17	Multivariate examination of brain abnormality using both structural and functional MRI NeuroImage ·Yong Fan, Hengyi Rao, Hallam Hurt, Joan M. Giannetta, Marc Korczykowski, David Shera, Brian Avants, James C. Gee, Danny J.J. Wang, Dinggang Shen	2007	115
18	Integrated Graph Cuts for Brain MRI Segmentation Lecture notes in computer science ·Zhuang Song, Nicholas J. Tustison, Brian Avants, James C. Gee	2006	44
19	Geodesic estimation for large deformation anatomical shape averaging and interpolation NeuroImage ·Brian Avants, James C. Gee	2004	338
20	The Shape Operator for Differential Analysis of Images Lecture notes in computer science ·Brian Avants, James C. Gee	2003	11

About Brian Avants

Brian Avants is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biophysics and Computational Mathematics, having authored 157 papers that have together received 22.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (49 papers), Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (45 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (43 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (20 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (15 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (14 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (12 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (9.6k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (7.9k citations), Neurology (2.2k citations), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (3.7k citations) and Psychiatry and Mental health (2.7k citations). Brian Avants has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Frequent co-authors include James C. Gee, Nicholas J. Tustison, Philip A. Cook, Charles L. Epstein, M GROSSMAN, Paul A. Yushkevich, Gang Song, Arno Klein, Yuanjie Zheng and Alexander Egan. Their work appears in journals such as NeuroImage, Journal of Neurotrauma, Journal of Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping and Frontiers in Neuroinformatics.

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