Gunilla Borgefors

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Gunilla Borgefors is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunilla Borgefors has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 4 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 3 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Gunilla Borgefors's work include Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (30 papers), Digital Image Processing Techniques (30 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (17 papers). Gunilla Borgefors is often cited by papers focused on Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (30 papers), Digital Image Processing Techniques (30 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (17 papers). Gunilla Borgefors collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Italy and United States. Gunilla Borgefors's co-authors include Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Punam K. Saha, Ingela Nyström, Stina Svensson, Robin Strand, Ida‐Maria Sintorn, Josef Bigün, Lucia Ballerini, Kerstin Lundström and Anders Högberg and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Pattern Recognition and Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

In The Last Decade

Gunilla Borgefors

50 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Distance transformations in digital images

1986 1.3k citations Gunilla Borgefors profile →
Distance transformations in arbitrary dimensions

1984 533 citations Gunilla Borgefors profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gunilla Borgefors Sweden	20	2.2k	340	298	293	264	51	3.0k
Benjamin B. Kimia United States	33	3.4k 1.5×	581 1.7×	343 1.2×	953 3.3×	171 0.6×	112	4.3k
Eric N. Mortensen United States	15	1.3k 0.6×	167 0.5×	208 0.7×	126 0.4×	193 0.7×	28	1.9k
Tim McInerney Canada	12	2.0k 0.9×	352 1.0×	177 0.6×	569 1.9×	661 2.5×	25	2.8k
M. Pilu United Kingdom	14	1.8k 0.8×	94 0.3×	450 1.5×	168 0.6×	132 0.5×	30	2.7k
William A. Barrett United States	15	1.2k 0.6×	262 0.8×	92 0.3×	183 0.6×	235 0.9×	49	1.7k
Orazio Gallo United States	17	2.7k 1.2×	449 1.3×	216 0.7×	457 1.6×	305 1.2×	31	3.5k
Trey Greer United States	9	2.2k 1.0×	467 1.4×	154 0.5×	212 0.7×	466 1.8×	10	3.3k
Jack Bresenham United States	7	949 0.4×	424 1.2×	278 0.9×	278 0.9×	87 0.3×	14	1.7k
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja Italy	22	1.3k 0.6×	277 0.8×	105 0.4×	267 0.9×	134 0.5×	92	1.8k
Per‐Erik Danielsson Sweden	13	890 0.4×	179 0.5×	114 0.4×	211 0.7×	241 0.9×	32	1.8k

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Saha, Punam K. & Gunilla Borgefors. (2016). Skeletonization and its application. Pattern Recognition Letters. 76. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

Lindblad, Joakim, et al.. (2012). A new set distance and its application to shape registration. Pattern Analysis and Applications. 17(1). 141–152. 5 indexed citations

Friberg, Bertil, et al.. (2011). Introducing a Novel Analysis Technique for Osseointegrated Dental Implants Retrieved 29 Years Postsurgery. Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research. 15(4). 538–549. 10 indexed citations

Lindblad, Joakim, et al.. (2011). Extracting 3D information on bone remodeling in the proximity of titanium implants in SRμCT image volumes. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 102(1). 25–34. 27 indexed citations

Strand, Robin, Benedek Nagy, & Gunilla Borgefors. (2010). Digital distance functions on three-dimensional grids. Theoretical Computer Science. 412(15). 1350–1363. 25 indexed citations

Fouard, Céline, Robin Strand, & Gunilla Borgefors. (2007). Weighted distance transforms generalized to modules and their computation on point lattices. Pattern Recognition. 40(9). 2453–2474. 16 indexed citations

Strand, Robin & Gunilla Borgefors. (2005). Distance transforms for three-dimensional grids with non-cubic voxels. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 100(3). 294–311. 15 indexed citations

Sintorn, Ida‐Maria & Gunilla Borgefors. (2004). Weighted distance transforms for volume images digitized in elongated voxel grids. Pattern Recognition Letters. 25(5). 571–580. 12 indexed citations

Sintorn, Ida‐Maria, et al.. (2004). A refined circular template matching method for classification of human cytomegalovirus capsids in TEM images. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 76(2). 95–102. 23 indexed citations

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Borgefors, Gunilla. (2002). Weighted digital distance transforms in four dimensions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 125(1). 161–176. 13 indexed citations

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Borgefors, Gunilla, et al.. (2001). An image analysis method to measure cross-sectional tracheid dimensions on softwood increment cores. Wood and Fiber Science. 33(2). 200–212. 7 indexed citations

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Ballerini, Lucia, Anders Högberg, Kerstin Lundström, & Gunilla Borgefors. (2001). <title>Color image analysis technique for measuring of fat in meat: an application for the meat industry</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4301. 113–124. 13 indexed citations

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Borgefors, Gunilla, Ingela Nyström, & Gabriella Sanniti di Baja. (2000). Discrete geometry for computer imagery : 9th International Conference, DGCI 2000, Uppsala, Sweden, December 13-15, 2000 : proceedings. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Svensson, Stina, Gunilla Borgefors, & Ingela Nyström. (1999). On Reversible Skeletonization Using Anchor-Points from Distance Transforms. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 10(4). 379–397. 19 indexed citations

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Svensson, Stina, Ingela Nyström, & Gunilla Borgefors. (1999). Fully Reversible Skeletonization for Volume Images Based on Anchor-Points from the D26 Distance Transform. 601–608. 9 indexed citations

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Borgefors, Gunilla, et al.. (1998). A Machine-vision Method to Measure Cross-sectional Tracheid Dimensions of Wood using Confocal Microscopy.. 112(2). 216–221. 2 indexed citations

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Bigün, Josef, et al.. (1997). Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication. Lecture notes in computer science. 27 indexed citations

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Borgefors, Gunilla. (1996). On Digital Distance Transforms in Three Dimensions. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 64(3). 368–376. 211 indexed citations

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Borgefors, Gunilla, Tilo Hartmann, & Steven L. Tanimoto. (1990). Parallel distance transforms on pyramid machines: Theory and implementation. Signal Processing. 21(1). 61–86. 14 indexed citations

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Borgefors, Gunilla. (1988). Distance Transformations in Digital Images. 34. 344–371. 2 indexed citations

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