William E. Lorensen

30.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
63 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

William E. Lorensen is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Lorensen has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 23 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and 16 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in William E. Lorensen's work include Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (21 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (13 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (11 papers). William E. Lorensen is often cited by papers focused on Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (21 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (13 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (11 papers). William E. Lorensen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Switzerland. William E. Lorensen's co-authors include H. E. Cline, W. J. Schroeder, William Premerlani, James Rumbaugh, Michael Blaha, Will Schroeder, Ferenc A. Jólesz, Ron Kikinis, Kenneth Martin and Siegwalt Ludke and has published in prestigious journals such as Spine, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Neurosurgery.

In The Last Decade

William E. Lorensen

59 papers receiving 18.9k 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.

Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm

1987 7.1k citations William E. Lorensen, H. E. Cline profile →
Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm

1987 6.1k citations William E. Lorensen, H. E. Cline profile →
Object-oriented modeling and design

1991 2.5k citations James Rumbaugh, Michael Blaha et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
Decimation of triangle meshes

1992 1.0k citations W. J. Schroeder, William E. Lorensen et al. profile →
Engineering and Algorithm Design for an Image Processing API: A Technical Report on ITK - the Insight Toolkit

2002 487 citations William E. Lorensen et al. profile →
Decimation of triangle meshes

1992 478 citations W. J. Schroeder, William E. Lorensen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William E. Lorensen United States	30	7.5k	6.9k	6.4k	2.4k	2.3k	63	20.4k
Demetri Terzopoulos United States	61	19.3k 2.6×	4.5k 0.7×	6.7k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	3.2k 1.4×	249	29.1k
Andrew Witkin United States	38	13.1k 1.8×	3.7k 0.5×	4.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	70	20.0k
Frédo Durand United States	76	18.8k 2.5×	5.3k 0.8×	3.4k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	782 0.3×	279	25.4k
John Canny United States	53	17.7k 2.4×	1.8k 0.3×	2.1k 0.3×	3.0k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	249	31.7k
Baining Guo China	59	19.0k 2.5×	5.9k 0.9×	5.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	255	30.8k
Berthold K. P. Horn United States	47	18.9k 2.5×	3.0k 0.4×	2.8k 0.4×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	157	27.3k
Michael Kass United States	22	11.1k 1.5×	2.6k 0.4×	3.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	35	16.0k
Guillermo Sapiro United States	84	25.5k 3.4×	2.9k 0.4×	8.9k 1.4×	2.7k 1.1×	4.5k 1.9×	436	40.1k
Tony F. Chan United States	77	18.9k 2.5×	1.7k 0.3×	11.2k 1.7×	3.0k 1.3×	5.4k 2.3×	403	39.5k
H. E. Cline United States	39	6.3k 0.8×	5.4k 0.8×	5.9k 0.9×	3.3k 1.4×	3.5k 1.5×	122	19.2k

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Lorensen, William E., et al.. (2002). Enhancing reality in the operating room. 410–415. 32 indexed citations

Carl, Allen, Harpal S. Khanuja, Morio Matsumoto, et al.. (2000). In Vivo Pedicle Screw Placement: Image-Guided Virtual Vision. Journal of Spinal Disorders. 13(3). 225–229. 23 indexed citations

Jolesz, F.A., William E. Lorensen, Steven T. Nakajima, et al.. (1997). Interactive virtual endoscopy.. American Journal of Roentgenology. 169(5). 1229–1235. 73 indexed citations

Kikinis, Ron, Phillip Gleason, Thomas M. Moriarty, et al.. (1996). Computer-assisted Interactive Three-dimensional Planning Neurosurgical Procedures. Neurosurgery. 38(4). 640–651. 118 indexed citations

Kikinis, Ron, Phillip Gleason, Thomas M. Moriarty, et al.. (1996). Computer-assisted Interactive Three-dimensional Planning for Neurosurgical Procedures. Neurosurgery. 38(4). 640–651. 145 indexed citations

Lorensen, William E.. (1995). Marching through the Visible Man. IEEE Visualization. 368–373. 31 indexed citations

Schroeder, W. J., et al.. (1994). Implicit modeling of swept surfaces and volumes. IEEE Visualization. 40–45. 75 indexed citations

Lorensen, William E.. (1993). Geometric clipping using Boolean textures. IEEE Visualization. 268–274. 11 indexed citations

Schroeder, W. J., et al.. (1992). VISAGE: an object-oriented scientific visualization system. IEEE Visualization. 219–226. 10 indexed citations

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Schroeder, W. J., et al.. (1992). Decimation of triangle meshes. 65–70. 1013 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kikinis, Ron, Martha E. Shenton, Guido Gerig, et al.. (1992). Routine quantitative analysis of brain and cerebrospinal fluid spaces with MR imaging. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2(6). 619–629. 201 indexed citations

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Lorensen, William E. & Boris Yamrom. (1991). Golf green visualization. IEEE Visualization. 116–123. 2 indexed citations

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Rumbaugh, James, et al.. (1991). Solutions Manual : Object-oriented modeling and design. Prentice Hall eBooks. 30 indexed citations

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Cline, H. E., William E. Lorensen, S. P. Souza, et al.. (1991). 3D Surface Rendered MR Images of the Brain and its Vasculature. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 15(2). 344–351. 86 indexed citations

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Rumbaugh, James, et al.. (1991). Object-oriented modeling and design. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2482 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cline, H. E., Charles L. Dumoulin, William E. Lorensen, S. P. Souza, & William James Adams. (1991). Volume rendering and connectivity algorithms for MR angiography. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 18(2). 384–394. 51 indexed citations

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Cline, H. E., et al.. (1987). 3D reconstruction of the brain from magnetic resonance images using a connectivity algorithm. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 5(5). 345–352. 152 indexed citations

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Hahn, Gerald J., Cristine L.S. Morgan, & William E. Lorensen. (1983). Color Face Plots for Displaying Product Performance. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 3(1). 23–29. 4 indexed citations

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Cline, H. E., et al.. (1982). Computer-aided surface reconstruction of interference contours. Applied Optics. 21(24). 4481–4481. 20 indexed citations

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Hussain, M. Azhar, et al.. (1978). The collapsed cubic isoparametric element as a ingular element for crack probblems. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 12(11). 1727–1742. 63 indexed citations

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