Michel Defrise

12.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
172 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Michel Defrise is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Defrise has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 66 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 63 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Michel Defrise's work include Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (160 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (78 papers) and Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (64 papers). Michel Defrise is often cited by papers focused on Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (160 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (78 papers) and Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (64 papers). Michel Defrise collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Japan. Michel Defrise's co-authors include Christine De Mol, Ingrid Daubechies, Johan Nuyts, D.W. Townsend, Frédéric Noo, Christian Michel, Hiroyuki Kudo, Paul E. Kinahan, Rolf Clackdoyle and Ahmadreza Rezaei and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

In The Last Decade

Michel Defrise

161 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

An iterative thresholding algorithm for linear inverse pr... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2004 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. An iterative thresholding algorithm for linear inverse problems with a sparsity constraint
    2004 3.2k citations Michel Defrise, Christine De Mol et al. profile →
  2. Exact and approximate rebinning algorithms for 3-D PET data
    1997 583 citations Michel Defrise, Paul E. Kinahan et al. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging profile →

Peers

Michel Defrise
Jeffrey A. Fessler United States
Charles A. Bouman United States
Jong Chul Ye South Korea
Michael Lustig United States
Avinash C. Kak United States
Thomas Pock Austria
Y. Vardi United States
Donald L. Snyder United States
L. Rudin United States
Emad Fatemi United States
Jeffrey A. Fessler United States
Michel Defrise
Citations per year, relative to Michel Defrise Michel Defrise (= 1×) peers Jeffrey A. Fessler

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michel Defrise

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel Defrise

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michel Defrise. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michel Defrise based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michel Defrise. Michel Defrise is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rit, Simon, et al.. (2021). Region-of-Interest CT Reconstruction Using Object Extent and Singular Value Decomposition. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. 6(5). 537–551. 1 indexed citations
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Defrise, Michel, Ahmadreza Rezaei, & Johan Nuyts. (2018). Time-of-flight PET time calibration using data consistency. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 63(10). 105006–105006. 6 indexed citations
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Rezaei, Ahmadreza, Vladimir Panin, Michael Casey, et al.. (2017). Plane-dependent ML scatter scaling: 3D extension of the 2D simulated single scatter (SSS) estimate. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 62(16). 6515–6531. 14 indexed citations
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Clackdoyle, Rolf & Michel Defrise. (2012). Tomographic Reconstruction in the 21st Century [Region-of-interest reconstruction from incomplete data]. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 33(1). 23–42. 5 indexed citations
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Panin, Vladimir, Michel Defrise, & M. Casey. (2010). Restoration of fine azimuthal sampling of measured TOF projection data. 28. 3079–3084. 13 indexed citations
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Defrise, Michel, Christian Vanhove, & Johan Nuyts. (2008). Perturbative Refinement of the Geometric Calibration in Pinhole SPECT. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 27(2). 204–214. 36 indexed citations
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Zbijewski, Wojciech, Michel Defrise, Max A. Viergever, & Freek J. Beekman. (2006). Statistical reconstruction for x-ray CT systems with non-continuous detectors. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 52(2). 403–418. 17 indexed citations
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Defrise, Michel, Michael Casey, Christian Michel, & Maurizio Conti. (2005). Fourier rebinning of time-of-flight PET data. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 50(12). 2749–2763. 52 indexed citations
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Mol, Christine De & Michel Defrise. (2004). Inverse imaging with mixed penalties. ULB Institutional Repository. 798–800. 8 indexed citations
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Brasse, D., Paul E. Kinahan, Rolf Clackdoyle, et al.. (2004). Fast Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in PET Using Planograms. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 23(4). 413–425. 27 indexed citations
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Kudo, Hiroyuki, Thomas Rodet, Frédéric Noo, & Michel Defrise. (2004). Exact and approximate algorithms for helical cone-beam CT. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 49(13). 2913–2931. 30 indexed citations
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Kudo, Hiroyuki, Frédéric Noo, Michel Defrise, & Rolf Clackdoyle. (2003). New super-short-scan reconstruction algorithms for fan-beam and cone-beam tomography. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 3 indexed citations
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Comtat, Claude, Paul E. Kinahan, Jeffrey A. Fessler, et al.. (2001). Clinically feasible reconstruction of 3D whole-body PET/CT data using blurred anatomical labels. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 47(1). 1–20. 137 indexed citations
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Liu, Xuan, Claude Comtat, Christian Michel, et al.. (2001). Comparison of 3-D reconstruction with 3D-OSEM and with FORE+OSEM for PET. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 20(8). 804–814. 103 indexed citations
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Gullberg, G.T., Michel Defrise, Vladimir Panin, & Gengsheng L. Zeng. (2001). Efficient cardiac diffusion tensor MRI by three-dimensional reconstruction of solenoidal tensor fields. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 19(2). 233–256. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Xuan, Michel Defrise, Christian Michel, et al.. (1999). Exact rebinning methods for three-dimensional PET. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 18(8). 657–664. 43 indexed citations
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Defrise, Michel, Paul E. Kinahan, D.W. Townsend, et al.. (1997). Exact and approximate rebinning algorithms for 3-D PET data. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 16(2). 145–158. 583 indexed citations breakdown →
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Defrise, Michel, R. Clack, & Richard M. Leahy. (1993). Note on Smith's reconstruction algorithm for cone beam tomography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 12(3). 622–623. 10 indexed citations
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Defrise, Michel, D.W. Townsend, Dale L. Bailey, Antoine Geissbühler, & Terry Jones. (1991). A normalization technique for 3D PET data. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 36(7). 939–952. 80 indexed citations
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Defrise, Michel, D.W. Townsend, & R. Clack. (1989). Three-dimensional image reconstruction from complete projections. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 34(5). 573–587. 67 indexed citations

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