Sune Darkner

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 883 citations indexed

About

Sune Darkner is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sune Darkner has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 883 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 23 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 8 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sune Darkner's work include Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (14 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (10 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (6 papers). Sune Darkner is often cited by papers focused on Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (14 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (10 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (6 papers). Sune Darkner collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. Sune Darkner's co-authors include Poul Jennum, Mathias Perslev, Christian Igel, Miki Nikolic, Rasmus Larsen, Jon Sporring, Kenny Erleben, Albert Gjedde, Steven Laureys and Kristian Nygaard Mortensen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sune Darkner

58 papers receiving 858 citations

Hit Papers

U-Sleep: resilient high-frequency sleep staging 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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. U-Sleep: resilient high-frequency sleep staging
    2021 190 citations Mathias Perslev, Sune Darkner et al. npj Digital Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sune Darkner Denmark 14 220 166 152 150 98 64 883
Fu‐Shan Jaw Taiwan 19 247 1.1× 96 0.6× 89 0.6× 123 0.8× 93 0.9× 102 1.1k
Daniel Morillo Spain 18 280 1.3× 81 0.5× 243 1.6× 148 1.0× 82 0.8× 66 1.2k
S.S. Furuie Brazil 16 158 0.7× 286 1.7× 76 0.5× 367 2.4× 79 0.8× 102 1.1k
Jingxin Liu China 18 107 0.5× 183 1.1× 44 0.3× 198 1.3× 49 0.5× 71 906
Félix Renard France 14 346 1.6× 63 0.4× 41 0.3× 330 2.2× 35 0.4× 42 999
Jing Wan China 14 228 1.0× 77 0.5× 52 0.3× 224 1.5× 25 0.3× 31 692
Alain Giron France 18 142 0.6× 57 0.3× 56 0.4× 243 1.6× 285 2.9× 60 1.3k
Marco Grimaldi Italy 23 153 0.7× 71 0.4× 77 0.5× 366 2.4× 30 0.3× 63 1.7k
Constantinos Loukas Greece 20 145 0.7× 353 2.1× 67 0.4× 208 1.4× 51 0.5× 61 1.1k
Yakang Dai China 22 444 2.0× 369 2.2× 76 0.5× 583 3.9× 41 0.4× 121 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sune Darkner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sune Darkner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sune Darkner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sune Darkner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sune Darkner 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 Sune Darkner. Sune Darkner 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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Darkner, Sune, et al.. (2025). Policy-Space Diffusion for Physics-Based Character Animation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 44(3). 1–18.
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Petersen, Jens, Carsten Ammitzbøl Lauridsen, Jonathan Frederik Carlsen, et al.. (2025). AI-Guided Delineation of Gross Tumor Volume for Body Tumors: A Systematic Review. Diagnostics. 15(7). 846–846.
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Carlsen, Jonathan Frederik, Silvia Ingala, Adam E. Hansen, et al.. (2023). An Automatic DWI/FLAIR Mismatch Assessment of Stroke Patients. Diagnostics. 14(1). 69–69. 1 indexed citations
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Dai, Xiang, Ilias Chalkidis, Sune Darkner, & Desmond Elliott. (2022). Revisiting Transformer-based Models for Long Document Classification. 7212–7230. 30 indexed citations
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Josipović, Mirjana, Signe Risum, Julien Jomier, et al.. (2022). Accuracy and consistency of intensity-based deformable image registration in 4DCT for tumor motion estimation in liver radiotherapy planning. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0271064–e0271064. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, Abraham George, Jens Petersen, Anne Kiil Berthelsen, et al.. (2021). RootPainter3D: Interactive-machine-learning enables rapid and accurate contouring for radiotherapy. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations
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Perslev, Mathias, et al.. (2021). U-Sleep: resilient high-frequency sleep staging. npj Digital Medicine. 4(1). 72–72. 190 indexed citations breakdown →
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Darkner, Sune, et al.. (2020). Restoring drifted electron microscope volumes using synaptic vesicles at sub-pixel accuracy. Communications Biology. 3(1). 81–81. 5 indexed citations
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Darkner, Sune, et al.. (2019). Data Driven Inverse Kinematics of Soft Robots using Local Models. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 8 indexed citations
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Grønhøj, Christian, David Hebbelstrup Jensen, Peter V. Glovinski, et al.. (2017). First-in-man mesenchymal stem cells for radiation-induced xerostomia (MESRIX): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 18(1). 108–108. 43 indexed citations
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Darkner, Sune, Akshay Pai, Matthew G. Liptrot, & Jon Sporring. (2017). Collocation for Diffeomorphic Deformations in Medical Image Registration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 40(7). 1570–1583. 6 indexed citations
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Darkner, Sune, Jim Hansen, Steen Pehrson, et al.. (2014). Recurrence of arrhythmia following short-term oral AMIOdarone after CATheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study (AMIO-CAT trial). European Heart Journal. 35(47). 3356–3364. 80 indexed citations
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Darkner, Sune & Jon Sporring. (2011). Generalized Partial Volume: An Inferior Density Estimator to Parzen Windows for Normalized Mutual Information. Lecture notes in computer science. 22. 436–447. 6 indexed citations
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Sommer, Stefan, Mads Nielsen, Sune Darkner, & Xavier Pennec. (2011). Higher-Order Momentum Distributions and Locally Affine LDDMM\n Registration. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations
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Sommer, Stefan, Mads Nielsen, Sune Darkner, & Xavier Pennec. (2011). Higher Order Kernels and Locally Affine LDDMM Registration. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Gökmen, Muhittin, et al.. (2010). Active illumination and appearance model for face alignment. TURKISH JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCES. 2 indexed citations
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Darkner, Sune, Mert R. Sabuncu, Polina Golland, Rasmus R. Paulsen, & Rasmus Larsen. (2008). Analysis of Surfaces Using Constrained Regression Models. Lecture notes in computer science. 11(Pt 1). 842–849. 5 indexed citations
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Darkner, Sune, et al.. (2007). Evaluating a method for automated rigid registration. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6512. 651225–651225. 1 indexed citations

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