Weidong Cai

12.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
303 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Weidong Cai is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Weidong Cai has authored 303 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 92 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 92 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Weidong Cai's work include Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (53 papers), AI in cancer detection (52 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (44 papers). Weidong Cai is often cited by papers focused on Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (53 papers), AI in cancer detection (52 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (44 papers). Weidong Cai collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Weidong Cai's co-authors include Dagan Feng, Yang Song, Heng Huang, Michael Fulham, Sidong Liu, Mei Chen, Ron Kikinis, Yun Zhou, Sonia Pujol and Qing Li and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Weidong Cai

281 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Medical image classification with convolutional neural network

2014 553 citations Weidong Cai, Dagan Feng et al. profile →
Multimodal Neuroimaging Feature Learning for Multiclass Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

2014 404 citations Sidong Liu, Weidong Cai et al. profile →
Knowledge-based Collaborative Deep Learning for Benign-Malignant Lung Nodule Classification on Chest CT

2018 351 citations Yong Xia, Yang Song et al. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging profile →
Deep Clustering via Joint Convolutional Autoencoder Embedding and Relative Entropy Minimization

2017 341 citations Weidong Cai, Heng Huang et al. profile →
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease with deep learning

2014 329 citations Sidong Liu, Weidong Cai et al. profile →
Walk in the Cloud: Learning Curves for Point Clouds Shape Analysis

2021 177 citations Yang Song, Weidong Cai et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weidong Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weidong Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weidong Cai 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 Weidong Cai. Weidong Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Contrastive Neuron Pruning for Backdoor Defense 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Image Processing ·(unknown), Benteng Ma, Dongnan Liu, Yanning Zhang, Weidong Cai, Yong Xia	0
2	HFBRI-MAE: Handcrafted Feature Based Rotation-Invariant Masked Autoencoder for 3D Point Cloud Analysis 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Weidong Cai	0
3	LaneCMKT: Boosting Monocular 3D Lane Detection with Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), Weidong Cai	0
4	A Parallel Online Performance Optimization Method for ATR Engines Based on Ensemble Neural Network 2024 ·Weidong Cai, Wei Zhao, Binbin Liu, (unknown), Wei‐Wei Luo, (unknown)	1
5	PaintHuman: Towards High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Human Texturing via Denoised Score Distillation 2024 ·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·(unknown), (unknown), Liming Jiang, Chen Change Loy, Weidong Cai, Wayne Wu	0
6	V2A-Mapper: A Lightweight Solution for Vision-to-Audio Generation by Connecting Foundation Models 2024 ·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·(unknown), Jianbo Ma, Santiago Pascual, Richard Cartwright, Weidong Cai	15
7	Cross-View Consistency Regularisation for Knowledge Distillation 2024 ·(unknown), Dongnan Liu, Weidong Cai, Chao Ma	1
8	Optimal Design of the Austenitic Stainless-Steel Composition Based on Machine Learning and Genetic Algorithm 2023 ·Materials ·(unknown), Xuandong Wang, Weidong Cai, Jiahui Yang, Hang Su	14
9	A convolutional neural network with pixel-wise sparse graph reasoning for COVID-19 lesion segmentation in CT images 2023 ·Computers in Biology and Medicine ·Haozhe Jia, (unknown), Guixiang Ma, Weidong Cai, Heng Huang, Liang Zhan, Yong Xia	18
10	Network Pruning via Performance Maximization 2021 ·Shangqian Gao, Feihu Huang, Weidong Cai, Heng Huang	74
11	Combination Therapy Using Kartogenin-Based Chondrogenesis and Complex Polymer Scaffold for Cartilage Defect Regeneration 2020 ·ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering ·Yuping Hong, Ning Liu, (unknown), Xinxin Zhao, Yaguang Han, Fangfang Xia, Jin Cheng, Meng Duan, Qirong Qian, Xiuying Wang, Weidong Cai, Hala Zreiqat, Dagan Feng, Jianrong Xu, Daxiang Cui	24
12	Deep Learning Methodology for Differentiating Glioma Recurrence From Radiation Necrosis Using Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Algorithm Development and Validation (Preprint) 2020 ·Yang Gao, Xiong Xiao, Bangcheng Han, Guilin Li, Xiaolin Ning, (unknown), Weidong Cai, Ron Kikinis, Shlomo Berkovsky, Antonio Di Ieva, Liwei Zhang, Nan Ji, Sidong Liu	1
13	Deep Learning Methodology for Differentiating Glioma Recurrence From Radiation Necrosis Using Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Algorithm Development and Validation 2020 ·JMIR Medical Informatics ·Yang Gao, Xiong Xiao, Bangcheng Han, Guilin Li, Xiaolin Ning, (unknown), Weidong Cai, Ron Kikinis, Shlomo Berkovsky, Antonio Di Ieva, Liwei Zhang, Nan Ji, Sidong Liu	28
14	SVM Based Classification and Prediction System for Gastric Cancer Using Dominant Features of Saliva 2019 ·Nano Biomedicine and Engineering ·Muhammad Aslam, Cuili Xue, (unknown), (unknown), Amin Zhang, Weidong Cai, (unknown), Yuming Yang, (unknown), Manhua Liu, Yun‐Xiang Pan, (unknown), Jie Song, Daxiang Cui	12
15	Multi-Pass Fast Watershed for Accurate Segmentation of Overlapping Cervical Cells 2018 ·IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging ·Afaf Tareef, Yang Song, Heng Huang, Dagan Feng, Mei Chen, Yue Wang, Weidong Cai	76
16	Optimizing the cervix cytological examination based on deep learning and dynamic shape modeling 2017 ·Neurocomputing ·Afaf Tareef, Yang Song, Heng Huang, Yue Wang, Dagan Feng, Mei Chen, Weidong Cai	53
17	Automatic segmentation of overlapping cervical smear cells based on local distinctive features and guided shape deformation 2016 ·Neurocomputing ·Afaf Tareef, Yang Song, Weidong Cai, Heng Huang, Hang Chang, (unknown), Michael Fulham, Dagan Feng, Mei Chen	52
18	Dense and Sparse Labeling With Multidimensional Features for Saliency Detection 2016 ·IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology ·Yuchen Yuan, Changyang Li, Jinman Kim, Weidong Cai, Dagan Feng	25
19	Fully automated scoring of chest radiographs in cystic fibrosis 2013 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Weidong Cai, Yang Song, Hiran Selvadurai, Dagan Feng	2
20	Application of 3D Multislice Helical CT in Diagnosis of Costicartilage Fracture 2006 ·Weidong Cai	1

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