H. Alberto Vargas

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

H. Alberto Vargas is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, H. Alberto Vargas has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 9 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 8 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in H. Alberto Vargas's work include Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (7 papers), Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (3 papers). H. Alberto Vargas is often cited by papers focused on Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (7 papers), Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (3 papers). H. Alberto Vargas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. H. Alberto Vargas's co-authors include Evis Sala, Harini Veeraraghavan, Hedvig Hricak, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Joseph O. Deasy, Andreas G. Wibmer, Tatsuo Gondo, Duc Fehr, Britta Weigelt and Alexandra Snyder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet Oncology and The Journal of Urology.

In The Last Decade

H. Alberto Vargas

20 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Automatic classification of prostate cancer Gleason scores from multiparametric magnetic resonance images
    2015 304 citations Duc Fehr, Harini Veeraraghavan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
H. Alberto Vargas United States 10 743 464 182 152 106 21 1.1k
Matthew Blackledge United Kingdom 22 1.4k 1.9× 478 1.0× 211 1.2× 128 0.8× 66 0.6× 69 1.8k
X. Sharon Qi United States 21 585 0.8× 478 1.0× 118 0.6× 171 1.1× 41 0.4× 86 1.1k
Sarah Boughdad Switzerland 11 1.1k 1.5× 421 0.9× 294 1.6× 266 1.8× 119 1.1× 32 1.3k
Leyun Pan Germany 21 756 1.0× 342 0.7× 352 1.9× 143 0.9× 47 0.4× 52 1.3k
Jan C. Peeken Germany 19 686 0.9× 491 1.1× 164 0.9× 256 1.7× 89 0.8× 64 1.1k
Christian Rønn Hansen Denmark 22 792 1.1× 877 1.9× 189 1.0× 188 1.2× 42 0.4× 111 1.7k
Abraham Alexander Canada 15 331 0.4× 325 0.7× 152 0.8× 119 0.8× 46 0.4× 38 724
Dominik Nörenberg Germany 17 646 0.9× 281 0.6× 205 1.1× 257 1.7× 47 0.4× 64 1000
X. Liem France 13 421 0.6× 266 0.6× 278 1.5× 182 1.2× 83 0.8× 51 854
Eric D. Donnelly United States 18 606 0.8× 326 0.7× 307 1.7× 126 0.8× 68 0.6× 57 1.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of H. Alberto Vargas

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vargas, H. Alberto, et al.. (2025). Keeping private patient data off the cloud: A comparison of local LLMs for anonymizing radiology reports. 2. 100020–100020. 2 indexed citations
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Walmsley, Charlotte S., Philip Jonsson, Michael L. Cheng, et al.. (2024). Convergent evolution of BRCA2 reversion mutations under therapeutic pressure by PARP inhibition and platinum chemotherapy. npj Precision Oncology. 8(1). 34–34. 7 indexed citations
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Becker, Anton S., Sungmin Woo, Doris Leithner, et al.. (2024). The “Hungry Judge” effect on prostate MRI reporting: Chronobiological trends from 35’004 radiologist interpretations. European Journal of Radiology. 179. 111665–111665. 2 indexed citations
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Woo, Sungmin, Soleen Ghafoor, Jeeban Paul Das, et al.. (2021). Plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: MRI features and their association with survival. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 40(3). 108.e1–108.e10. 15 indexed citations
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Woo, Sungmin, Anton S. Becker, Richard Kinh Gian, et al.. (2021). Impact of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography on management of cancer of unknown primary: systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Cancer. 159. 60–77. 7 indexed citations
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Ward, Zachary J., Surbhi Grover, Andrew M. Scott, et al.. (2020). The role and contribution of treatment and imaging modalities in global cervical cancer management: survival estimates from a simulation-based analysis. The Lancet Oncology. 21(8). 1089–1098. 33 indexed citations
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Ward, Zachary J., Andrew M. Scott, Hedvig Hricak, et al.. (2020). Estimating the impact of treatment and imaging modalities on 5-year net survival of 11 cancers in 200 countries: a simulation-based analysis. The Lancet Oncology. 21(8). 1077–1088. 38 indexed citations
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Jadvar, Hossein, Leslie K. Ballas, Peter L. Choyke, et al.. (2020). Appropriate Use Criteria for Imaging Evaluation of Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer After Definitive Primary Treatment. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 61(4). 552–562. 7 indexed citations
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Dason, Shawn, Nathan C. Wong, Timothy F. Donahue, et al.. (2020). Utility of Routine Preoperative 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computerized Tomography in Identifying Pathological Lymph Node Metastases at Radical Cystectomy. The Journal of Urology. 204(2). 254–259. 14 indexed citations
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Krämer, G., Maqsood Yaqub, H. Alberto Vargas, et al.. (2019). Assessment of Simplified Methods for Quantification of 18F-FDHT Uptake in Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 60(9). 1221–1227. 9 indexed citations
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García‐Figueiras, Roberto, Sandra Baleato‐González, Anwar R. Padhani, et al.. (2019). How clinical imaging can assess cancer biology. Insights into Imaging. 10(1). 28–28. 79 indexed citations
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Teo, Min Yuen, Matthew J. O’Shaughnessy, Sean M. McBride, H. Alberto Vargas, & Howard I. Scher. (2017). Drug development for noncastrate prostate cancer in a changed therapeutic landscape. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. 15(3). 168–182. 9 indexed citations
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Teo, Min Yuen, Matthew J. O’Shaughnessy, Sean M. McBride, H. Alberto Vargas, & Howard I. Scher. (2017). Erratum: Drug development for noncastrate prostate cancer in a changed therapeutic landscape. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. 15(3). 150–150. 1 indexed citations
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Sala, Evis, Eralda Mema, Yuki Himoto, et al.. (2016). Unravelling tumour heterogeneity using next-generation imaging: radiomics, radiogenomics, and habitat imaging. Clinical Radiology. 72(1). 3–10. 252 indexed citations
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Fehr, Duc, Harini Veeraraghavan, Andreas G. Wibmer, et al.. (2015). Automatic classification of prostate cancer Gleason scores from multiparametric magnetic resonance images. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(46). E6265–73. 304 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vargas, H. Alberto, et al.. (2012). Ipilimumab-Induced Colitis on FDG PET/CT. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 37(6). 629–630. 26 indexed citations
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Karimi, Sasan, Kyung K. Peck, Yoshiya Yamada, et al.. (2012). Characterizing Hypervascular and Hypovascular Metastases and Normal Bone Marrow of the Spine Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 33(11). 2178–2185. 43 indexed citations
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Vargas, H. Alberto, et al.. (2009). Imaging the lungs in patients treated for lymphoma. Clinical Radiology. 64(11). 1048–1055. 6 indexed citations

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