Lucia Ballerini

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Lucia Ballerini is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Ophthalmology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucia Ballerini has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 18 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 18 papers in Ophthalmology. Recurrent topics in Lucia Ballerini's work include Retinal Imaging and Analysis (24 papers), Glaucoma and retinal disorders (15 papers) and Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (14 papers). Lucia Ballerini is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Imaging and Analysis (24 papers), Glaucoma and retinal disorders (15 papers) and Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (14 papers). Lucia Ballerini collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Sweden. Lucia Ballerini's co-authors include Joanna M. Wardlaw, Emanuele Trucco, Tom MacGillivray, Bradley J. MacIntosh, Joel Ramirez, Sandra E. Black, María del C. Valdés Hernández, Fergus Doubal, Susana Muñoz Maniega and Rosalind Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, NeuroImage and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Lucia Ballerini

86 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Perivascular spaces in the brain: anatomy, physiology and pathology

2020 512 citations Joanna M. Wardlaw, Helene Benveniste et al. Nature Reviews Neurology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucia Ballerini United Kingdom	22	683	660	488	394	348	93	2.1k
Mohamed Akil France	30	601 0.9×	573 0.9×	182 0.4×	145 0.4×	413 1.2×	114	3.4k
Yonggang Shi United States	30	1.6k 2.4×	163 0.2×	178 0.4×	706 1.8×	334 1.0×	141	3.3k
F. Reed Murtagh United States	27	369 0.5×	376 0.6×	486 1.0×	50 0.1×	473 1.4×	92	3.4k
İpek Oğuz United States	24	886 1.3×	245 0.4×	139 0.3×	77 0.2×	540 1.6×	118	2.6k
Hugo J. Kuijf Netherlands	32	1.2k 1.7×	464 0.7×	844 1.7×	37 0.1×	295 0.8×	125	3.7k
Francisco González Spain	29	525 0.8×	253 0.4×	133 0.3×	766 1.9×	134 0.4×	151	3.2k
Ali R. Khan Canada	29	1.1k 1.6×	236 0.4×	262 0.5×	43 0.1×	603 1.7×	174	3.0k
Gabriela Czanner United Kingdom	21	539 0.8×	163 0.2×	60 0.1×	434 1.1×	182 0.5×	79	1.9k
Jacqueline Chen United States	18	658 1.0×	156 0.2×	448 0.9×	28 0.1×	169 0.5×	56	2.7k
Simon Duchesne Canada	31	960 1.4×	212 0.3×	281 0.6×	20 0.1×	401 1.2×	145	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucia Ballerini

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Aribisala, Benjamin S., María del C. Valdés Hernández, Judith A. Okely, et al.. (2023). Sleep quality, perivascular spaces and brain health markers in ageing - A longitudinal study in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Sleep Medicine. 106. 123–131. 10 indexed citations

Hernández, María Valdés, José Bernal, Yajun Cheng, et al.. (2023). Influence of threshold selection and image sequence in in-vivo segmentation of enlarged perivascular spaces. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 403. 110037–110037. 4 indexed citations

Bernal, José, María Valdés Hernández, Javier Escudero, et al.. (2022). Assessment of perivascular space filtering methods using a three-dimensional computational model. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 93. 33–51. 9 indexed citations

Buchanan, Colin R., Susana Muñoz Maniega, María Valdés Hernández, et al.. (2021). Comparison of structural MRI brain measures between 1.5 and 3 T: Data from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Human Brain Mapping. 42(12). 3905–3921. 18 indexed citations

Hamilton, Olivia KL, Simon R. Cox, Judith A. Okely, et al.. (2021). Cerebral small vessel disease burden and longitudinal cognitive decline from age 73 to 82: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 376–376. 31 indexed citations

Ballerini, Lucia, Sarah McGrory, María del C. Valdés Hernández, et al.. (2020). Quantitative measurements of enlarged perivascular spaces in the brain are associated with retinal microvascular parameters in older community-dwelling subjects. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 100002–100002. 12 indexed citations

Wardlaw, Joanna M., Helene Benveniste, Maiken Nedergaard, et al.. (2020). Perivascular spaces in the brain: anatomy, physiology and pathology. Nature Reviews Neurology. 16(3). 137–153. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

Corley, Janie, Simon R. Cox, Adele M. Taylor, et al.. (2020). Dietary patterns, cognitive function, and structural neuroimaging measures of brain aging. Experimental Gerontology. 142. 111117–111117. 31 indexed citations

Ballerini, Lucia, et al.. (2019). Perivascular spaces and their associations with risk factors, clinical disorders and neuroimaging features: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Stroke. 14(4). 359–371. 131 indexed citations

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McGrory, Sarah, Lucia Ballerini, Fergus Doubal, et al.. (2019). Retinal microvasculature and cerebral small vessel disease in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 and Mild Stroke Study. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6320–6320. 58 indexed citations

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Ballerini, Lucia, Tom Booth, María Valdés Hernández, et al.. (2019). Computational quantification of brain perivascular space morphologies: Associations with vascular risk factors and white matter hyperintensities. A study in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. NeuroImage Clinical. 25. 102120–102120. 45 indexed citations

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Ballerini, Lucia, Ruggiero Lovreglio, María del C. Valdés Hernández, et al.. (2018). Perivascular Spaces Segmentation in Brain MRI Using Optimal 3D Filtering. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2132–2132. 95 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Tom, et al.. (2013). Retinal vessel classification: Sorting arteries and veins. PubMed. 2013. 7396–7399. 41 indexed citations

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Aldridge, Roger Benjamin, et al.. (2011). The 'ABCD' mnemonic does not function as a useful guide in assisting novices with the diagnosis of melanoma. British Journal of Dermatology. 165. 55–56. 1 indexed citations

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Aldridge, Roger Benjamin, et al.. (2010). Dermofit: a novel software that improves novices' diagnostic accuracy to a level above that of trained medical students. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 130. 1 indexed citations

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Ballerini, Lucia, et al.. (2003). Pore formation in cured–smoked pork determined with image analysis—effects of tumbling and RN− gene. Meat Science. 65(4). 1231–1236. 12 indexed citations

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Ballerini, Lucia & Anders Högberg. (2001). How Do People Choose Meat. 119–122. 1 indexed citations

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Ballerini, Lucia. (2000). Determination of fat contents in NMR images of meat: preliminary results. 79–82. 1 indexed citations

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Högberg, Anders, et al.. (2000). 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology. 1 indexed citations

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Ballerini, Lucia. (1998). <title>Integration of retinal image sequences</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3460. 237–248. 1 indexed citations

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