Denis Fortun

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Denis Fortun is a scholar working on Biophysics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Denis Fortun has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Biophysics, 6 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Denis Fortun's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (8 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (5 papers). Denis Fortun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (8 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (6 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (5 papers). Denis Fortun collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Germany. Denis Fortun's co-authors include Patrick Bouthémy, Charles Kervrann, Michaël Unser, Laurène Donati, Arne Seitz, Romain Guiet, Ferréol Soulez, Daniel Sage, Cédric Vonesch and Paul Guichard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Denis Fortun

13 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

DeconvolutionLab2: An open-source software for deconvolution microscopy

2017 383 citations Daniel Sage, Laurène Donati et al. Methods profile →
Optical flow modeling and computation: A survey

2015 260 citations Denis Fortun, Patrick Bouthémy et al. Computer Vision and Image Understanding profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Denis Fortun France	8	340	307	244	199	157	18	1.1k
Matthew McAuliffe United States	20	380 1.1×	331 1.1×	301 1.2×	424 2.1×	66 0.4×	51	2.0k
Florian Jug Germany	19	405 1.2×	569 1.9×	505 2.1×	331 1.7×	255 1.6×	38	2.1k
Thorsten Beier Germany	8	615 1.8×	747 2.4×	142 0.6×	221 1.1×	227 1.4×	15	2.0k
Yoann Le Montagner France	5	350 1.0×	477 1.6×	112 0.5×	139 0.7×	181 1.2×	7	1.2k
Carsten Haubold Germany	7	670 2.0×	771 2.5×	185 0.8×	220 1.1×	232 1.5×	10	2.0k
Stéphane Dallongeville France	6	389 1.1×	554 1.8×	86 0.4×	115 0.6×	211 1.3×	11	1.3k
Ullrich Koethe Germany	12	790 2.3×	830 2.7×	217 0.9×	234 1.2×	239 1.5×	26	2.3k
Praveen Pankajakshan France	8	355 1.0×	472 1.5×	87 0.4×	132 0.7×	178 1.1×	19	1.2k
Bernhard X. Kausler Germany	6	645 1.9×	781 2.5×	153 0.6×	220 1.1×	261 1.7×	6	2.1k
Thorben Kroeger Germany	5	604 1.8×	742 2.4×	93 0.4×	214 1.1×	225 1.4×	5	1.9k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Fortun, Denis, et al.. (2025). Multiview Point Cloud Registration via Optimization in an Autoencoder Latent Space. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 34. 3475–3488.

Fortun, Denis, et al.. (2025). Multiview Point Cloud Registration with Anisotropic and Spatially Varying Localization Noise. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 18(1). 280–307. 2 indexed citations

Fortun, Denis, et al.. (2024). Particle Detection Based on Few Shot Learning in 3D Fluorescence Microscopy. 1–5.

Mercey, Olivier, Marine H. Laporte, Denis Fortun, et al.. (2023). iU-ExM: nanoscopy of organelles and tissues with iterative ultrastructure expansion microscopy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7893–7893. 38 indexed citations

Laporte, Marine H., et al.. (2023). Fast and Robust Single Particle Reconstruction in 3D Fluorescence Microscopy. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 9. 636–648.

Fortun, Denis, et al.. (2022). A unified framework for focal intensity change detection and deformable image registration. Application to the monitoring of multiple sclerosis lesions in longitudinal 3D brain MRI. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 1008128–1008128. 3 indexed citations

Zwettler, Fabian U., et al.. (2021). Stacked Pointnets For Alignment Of Particles With Cylindrical Symmetry In Single Molecule Localization Microscopy. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 858–862.

Mahečić, Dora, Davide Gambarotto, Kyle M. Douglass, et al.. (2020). Homogeneous multifocal excitation for high-throughput super-resolution imaging. Nature Methods. 17(7). 726–733. 53 indexed citations

Fortun, Denis, Paul Guichard, Virginie Hamel, et al.. (2018). Reconstruction From Multiple Particles for 3D Isotropic Resolution in Fluorescence Microscopy. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 37(5). 1235–1246. 11 indexed citations

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Gambarotto, Davide, Fabian U. Zwettler, Maeva Le Guennec, et al.. (2018). Imaging cellular ultrastructures using expansion microscopy (U-ExM). Nature Methods. 16(1). 71–74. 309 indexed citations

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Chen, Chin‐Lin, Meera Viswanathan, Denis Fortun, et al.. (2018). Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4390–4390. 53 indexed citations

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Fortun, Denis, et al.. (2018). Fast Piecewise-Affine Motion Estimation Without Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 27(11). 5612–5624.

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Sage, Daniel, Laurène Donati, Ferréol Soulez, et al.. (2017). DeconvolutionLab2: An open-source software for deconvolution microscopy. Methods. 115. 28–41. 383 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fortun, Denis, Patrick Bouthémy, & Charles Kervrann. (2016). A Variational Aggregation Framework for Patch-Based Optical Flow Estimation. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 56(2). 280–299. 2 indexed citations

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Fortun, Denis, Paul Guichard, Ning Chu, & Michaël Unser. (2015). Reconstruction From Multiple Poses in Fluorescence Imaging: Proof of Concept. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 10(1). 61–70. 4 indexed citations

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Fortun, Denis, Patrick Bouthémy, & Charles Kervrann. (2015). Optical flow modeling and computation: A survey. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 134. 1–21. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fortun, Denis, Patrick Bouthémy, & Charles Kervrann. (2015). Aggregation of local parametric candidates with exemplar-based occlusion handling for optical flow. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 145. 81–94. 14 indexed citations

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Fortun, Denis, Patrick Bouthémy, & Charles Kervrann. (2014). Aggregation of local parametric candidates with exemplar-based occlusion handling for optical flow. arXiv (Cornell University). 27. 1 indexed citations

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