Christos Davatzikos

64.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
644 papers, 34.2k citations indexed

About

Christos Davatzikos is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Christos Davatzikos has authored 644 papers receiving a total of 34.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 283 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 178 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 158 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Christos Davatzikos's work include Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (161 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (146 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (145 papers). Christos Davatzikos is often cited by papers focused on Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (161 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (146 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (145 papers). Christos Davatzikos collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Christos Davatzikos's co-authors include Susan M. Resnick, Dinggang Shen, Aristeidis Sotiras, Yong Fan, Dinggang Shen, Nikos Paragios, Michael A. Kraut, Güray Erus, Raquel E. Gur and Ruben C. Gur and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Christos Davatzikos

624 papers receiving 33.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Advancing The Cancer Genome Atlas glioma MRI collections with expert segmentation labels and radiomic features

2017 1.5k citations Spyridon Bakas, Hamed Akbari et al. profile →
Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Older Adults: A Shrinking Brain

2003 1.0k citations Susan M. Resnick, Alan B. Zonderman et al. profile →
Deformable Medical Image Registration: A Survey

2013 918 citations Aristeidis Sotiras, Christos Davatzikos et al. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging profile →
HAMMER: hierarchical attribute matching mechanism for elastic registration

2002 847 citations Christos Davatzikos et al. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging profile →
Benchmarking of participant-level confound regression strategies for the control of motion artifact in studies of functional connectivity

2017 654 citations Daniel H. Wolf, David R. Roalf et al. profile →
Classification of brain tumor type and grade using MRI texture and shape in a machine learning scheme

2009 620 citations Christos Davatzikos et al. profile →
Measurement of Radiotracer Concentration in Brain Gray Matter Using Positron Emission Tomography: MRI-Based Correction for Partial Volume Effects

1992 609 citations Christos Davatzikos et al. profile →
A review on neuroimaging-based classification studies and associated feature extraction methods for Alzheimer's disease and its prodromal stages

2017 420 citations Saima Rathore, Mohamad Habes et al. profile →
White matter hyperintensities and imaging patterns of brain ageing in the general population

2016 284 citations Mohamad Habes, Güray Erus et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christos Davatzikos United States	95	12.7k	10.9k	7.8k	7.1k	5.2k	644	34.2k
D. Louis Collins Canada	85	13.8k 1.1×	12.1k 1.1×	7.3k 0.9×	5.3k 0.7×	3.7k 0.7×	515	37.2k
James C. Gee United States	64	14.3k 1.1×	9.3k 0.9×	5.3k 0.7×	3.1k 0.4×	2.5k 0.5×	370	33.1k
Ron Kikinis United States	86	14.6k 1.2×	7.3k 0.7×	6.6k 0.9×	4.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.4×	377	35.7k
Dinggang Shen United States	114	20.7k 1.6×	13.0k 1.2×	16.3k 2.1×	5.8k 0.8×	7.9k 1.5×	1.3k	53.1k
Daniel Rueckert United Kingdom	88	20.2k 1.6×	6.6k 0.6×	16.2k 2.1×	3.7k 0.5×	4.2k 0.8×	591	44.6k
John Ashburner United Kingdom	83	20.3k 1.6×	33.8k 3.1×	4.3k 0.6×	11.7k 1.7×	5.2k 1.0×	195	60.8k
Brian Avants United States	56	9.6k 0.8×	7.9k 0.7×	3.7k 0.5×	2.7k 0.4×	2.2k 0.4×	157	22.4k
Michael I. Miller United States	78	10.3k 0.8×	7.3k 0.7×	5.7k 0.7×	3.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.2×	383	24.0k
Arthur W. Toga United States	128	19.0k 1.5×	29.5k 2.7×	4.8k 0.6×	16.7k 2.4×	7.2k 1.4×	805	69.3k
Sébastien Ourselin United Kingdom	76	10.2k 0.8×	3.7k 0.3×	5.1k 0.7×	4.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	812	26.7k

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Tian, Qu, Keenan A. Walker, Michael R. Duggan, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal patterns of brain aging and neurodegeneration among older adults with dual decline in memory and gait. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(2). e14612–e14612. 2 indexed citations

Matsumoto, Yuji, José García, Zied Abdullaev, et al.. (2024). EPCO-15. INTRA-TUMORAL HETEROGENEITY OF DNA METHYLATION PROFILING AND CELLULAR COMPOSITION IN GLIOBLASTOMA. Neuro-Oncology. 26(Supplement_8). viii4–viii4. 1 indexed citations

Beydoun, May A., Nicole Noren Hooten, Hind A. Beydoun, et al.. (2023). Plasma neurofilament light and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged urban adults. Neurobiology of Aging. 129. 28–40. 2 indexed citations

Bao, Jingxuan, Kefei Liu, Junhao Wen, et al.. (2023). Preference matrix guided sparse canonical correlation analysis for mining brain imaging genetic associations in Alzheimer's disease. Methods. 218. 27–38. 4 indexed citations

Bourque, Josiane, Valerie J. Sydnor, Matthew Cieslak, et al.. (2023). Development of white matter fiber covariance networks supports executive function in youth. Cell Reports. 42(12). 113487–113487. 4 indexed citations

Abdullaev, Zied, Yuji Matsumoto, Steven Brem, et al.. (2023). EPCO-26. INTRATUMORAL HETEROGENEITY OF GBM IDENTIFIED AND CHARACTERIZED BY A MULTISAMPLING APPROACH AND METHYLATION PROFILING. Neuro-Oncology. 25(Supplement_5). v129–v129.

Subramanian, Shashank, et al.. (2022). Ensemble Inversion for Brain Tumor Growth Models With Mass Effect. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 42(4). 982–995. 10 indexed citations

Κορδά, Αλεξάνδρα, Christina Andreou, Mihai Avram, et al.. (2022). Identification of texture MRI brain abnormalities on first-episode psychosis and clinical high-risk subjects using explainable artificial intelligence. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1). 11 indexed citations

Beydoun, May A., Nicole Noren Hooten, Jordan Weiss, et al.. (2022). Plasma neurofilament light as blood marker for poor brain white matter integrity among middle-aged urban adults. Neurobiology of Aging. 121. 52–63. 4 indexed citations

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Gur, Ruben C., Ellyn R. Butler, Tyler M. Moore, et al.. (2020). Structural and Functional Brain Parameters Related to Cognitive Performance Across Development: Replication and Extension of the Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory in a Single Sample. Cerebral Cortex. 31(3). 1444–1463. 19 indexed citations

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Neufeld, Nicholas H., Antonia N. Kaczkurkin, Aristeidis Sotiras, et al.. (2020). Structural brain networks in remitted psychotic depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(7). 1223–1231. 17 indexed citations

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Fu, Cynthia H.Y., Yong Fan, & Christos Davatzikos. (2019). Addressing heterogeneity (and homogeneity) in treatment mechanisms in depression and the potential to develop diagnostic and predictive biomarkers. NeuroImage Clinical. 24. 101997–101997. 22 indexed citations

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Nasrallah, Ilya M., Güray Erus, Harsha Battapady, et al.. (2019). White Matter Lesion Penumbra Shows Abnormalities on Structural and Physiologic MRIs in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Cohort. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 40(8). 1291–1298. 12 indexed citations

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Chand, Ganesh B., Mohamad Habes, Sudipto Dolui, et al.. (2019). Estimating regional cerebral blood flow using resting-state functional MRI via machine learning. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 331. 108528–108528. 7 indexed citations

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Bakas, Spyridon, Hamed Akbari, Jared Pisapia, et al.. (2017). In Vivo Detection of EGFRvIII in Glioblastoma via Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signature Consistent with Deep Peritumoral Infiltration: The ϕ -Index. Clinical Cancer Research. 23(16). 4724–4734. 63 indexed citations

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Serpa, Maurício H., Jimit Doshi, Güray Erus, et al.. (2017). State-dependent microstructural white matter changes in drug-naïve patients with first-episode psychosis. Psychological Medicine. 47(15). 2613–2627. 31 indexed citations

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Honnorat, Nicolas, Drew Parker, Birkan Tunç, Christos Davatzikos, & Ragini Verma. (2017). Subject-Specific Structural Parcellations Based on Randomized AB-divergences. Lecture notes in computer science. 10433. 407–415. 3 indexed citations

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Linn, Kristin A., Bilwaj Gaonkar, Jimit Doshi, Christos Davatzikos, & Russell T. Shinohara. (2015). Addressing Confounding in Predictive Models with an Application to Neuroimaging. The International Journal of Biostatistics. 12(1). 31–44. 26 indexed citations

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Varol, Erdem, Bilwaj Gaonkar, Güray Erus, Robert T. Schultz, & Christos Davatzikos. (2012). Feature ranking based nested support vector machine ensemble for medical image classification. PubMed. 146–149. 25 indexed citations

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Hamm, Jihun, Christos Davatzikos, & Ragini Verma. (2009). Efficient Large Deformation Registration via Geodesics on a Learned Manifold of Images. Lecture notes in computer science. 12(Pt 1). 680–687. 41 indexed citations

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