Christian Brechbühler

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 933 citations indexed

About

Christian Brechbühler is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Brechbühler has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 933 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 3 papers in Computational Mechanics and 3 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Christian Brechbühler's work include Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (5 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (2 papers). Christian Brechbühler is often cited by papers focused on Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (5 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (2 papers). Christian Brechbühler collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland and United States. Christian Brechbühler's co-authors include Guido Gerig, Martin Styner, Gábor Székely, A. Kelemen, Martha E. Shenton, İpek Oğuz, Dimitrios Pantazis, Shun Xu, James J. Levitt and Pascal Fua and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis and Computer Vision and Image Understanding.

In The Last Decade

Christian Brechbühler

8 papers receiving 885 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Framework for the Statistical Shape Analysis of Brain Structures using SPHARM-PDM.

2006 301 citations Martin Styner, İpek Oğuz et al. PubMed profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Brechbühler Switzerland	6	511	256	133	126	104	8	933
Daniel Fritsch United States	13	674 1.3×	201 0.8×	165 1.2×	135 1.1×	109 1.0×	37	1.0k
Jean‐Philippe Thirion France	18	891 1.7×	423 1.7×	245 1.8×	158 1.3×	110 1.1×	34	1.4k
E. Bullitt United States	13	712 1.4×	540 2.1×	86 0.6×	200 1.6×	69 0.7×	21	1.5k
Dirk Smeets Belgium	22	609 1.2×	364 1.4×	196 1.5×	109 0.9×	37 0.4×	69	1.5k
Brad Davis United States	12	685 1.3×	549 2.1×	101 0.8×	187 1.5×	187 1.8×	24	1.4k
Alexandre Guimond Canada	9	433 0.8×	375 1.5×	36 0.3×	83 0.7×	45 0.4×	14	769
Michael E. Leventon United States	11	1.1k 2.1×	176 0.7×	119 0.9×	168 1.3×	51 0.5×	16	1.3k
Sylvain Prima France	16	412 0.8×	410 1.6×	96 0.7×	74 0.6×	68 0.7×	43	966
Jon Sporring Denmark	16	399 0.8×	212 0.8×	99 0.7×	95 0.8×	20 0.2×	77	940
Maryam E. Rettmann United States	15	444 0.9×	470 1.8×	113 0.8×	92 0.7×	63 0.6×	61	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Brechbühler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Brechbühler

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Styner, Martin, İpek Oğuz, Shun Xu, et al.. (2006). Framework for the Statistical Shape Analysis of Brain Structures using SPHARM-PDM.. PubMed. 242–250. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brechbühler, Christian, et al.. (2002). Parameterization of closed surfaces for parametric surface description. 1. 354–360. 33 indexed citations

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Styner, Martin, et al.. (2000). Parametric estimate of intensity inhomogeneities applied to MRI. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 19(3). 153–165. 395 indexed citations

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Styner, Martin, Christian Brechbühler, Gábor J. Székely, & Guido Gerig. (2000). Parametric estimate of intensity inhomogeneities. 3 indexed citations

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Brechbühler, Christian, et al.. (2000). A PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERACTIVE FEM COMPUTATIONS IN A SURGERY SIMULATOR. 225–232. 4 indexed citations

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Székely, Gábor J., Michael Bajka, Christian Brechbühler, et al.. (1999). Virtual reality based surgery simulation for endoscopic gynaecology.. PubMed. 62. 351–7. 21 indexed citations

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Fua, Pascal & Christian Brechbühler. (1997). Imposing Hard Constraints on Deformable Models through Optimization in Orthogonal Subspaces. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 65(2). 148–162. 19 indexed citations

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Székely, Gábor, A. Kelemen, Christian Brechbühler, & Guido Gerig. (1996). Segmentation of 2-D and 3-D objects from MRI volume data using constrained elastic deformations of flexible Fourier contour and surface models. Medical Image Analysis. 1(1). 19–34. 157 indexed citations

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