Wiro J. Niessen

40.3k citations

541 papers · 19.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 70

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging top 0.05%
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition top 0.1%
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine top 0.5%
Biomedical Engineering top 0.5%
Neurology top 0.2%

Co-authors: Meike W. Vernooij Aad van der Lugt M. Arfan Ikram Albert Hofman Monique M.B. Breteler Max A. Viergever Gabriël P. Krestin Theo van Walsum
Topics: Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (150 papers)Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (120 papers)Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (97 papers)
Cited by: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Neurology
Journals: New England Journal of Medicine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nature Communications
Partner nations: Netherlands Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Wiro J. Niessen

529 papers receiving 19.0k citations

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Incidental Findings on Brain MRI in the General Population

2007 1.1k citations Meike W. Vernooij, M. Arfan Ikram et al. profile →
Prevalence and risk factors of cerebral microbleeds

2008 613 citations Meike W. Vernooij, Aad van der Lugt et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Designing interpretable deep learning applications for functional genomics: a quantitative analysis 2024 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·(unknown),(unknown),Edoardo Saccenti,Wiro J. Niessen,Gennady V. Roshchupkin	5
2	Changes in Cerebral Hemodynamics and Progression of Subclinical Vascular Brain Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study 2024 ·Stroke ·Yuan Ma,Daniël Bos,Frank J. Wolters,Wiro J. Niessen,Albert Hofman,M. Arfan Ikram,Meike W. Vernooij	2
3	Towards quantitative digital subtraction perfusion angiography: An animal study 2023 ·Medical Physics ·(unknown),P Matthijs van der Sluijs,Joaquim Bobí,(unknown),Heleen M.M. van Beusekom,Aad van der Lugt,Wiro J. Niessen,Daniël Ruijters,Theo van Walsum	4
4	Association between prenatal alcohol exposure and children's facial shape: a prospective population-based cohort study 2023 ·Human Reproduction ·Xianjing Liu,Manfred Kayser,Steven A. Kushner,Henning Tiemeier,Fernando Rivadeneira,Vincent W. V. Jaddoe,Wiro J. Niessen,Eppo B. Wolvius,Gennady V. Roshchupkin	6
5	Deep reinforcement learning for cerebral anterior vessel tree extraction from 3D CTA images 2022 ·Medical Image Analysis ·(unknown),(unknown),Lennard Wolff,Wim H. van Zwam,Wiro J. Niessen,Aad van der Lugt,Theo van Walsum	6
6	Social Health Is Associated With Tract-Specific Brain White Matter Microstructure in Community-Dwelling Older Adults 2022 ·Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science ·(unknown),(unknown),M. Arfan Ikram,Myrra Vernooij‐Dassen,Wiro J. Niessen,Meike W. Vernooij,Martien J. Kas	7
7	Combined molecular subtyping, grading, and segmentation of glioma using multi-task deep learning 2022 ·Neuro-Oncology ·Sebastian R. van der Voort,Fatih Incekara,Maarten M.J. Wijnenga,Georgios Kapsas,Renske Gahrmann,Joost W. Schouten,Rishi Nandoe Tewarie,Geert J. Lycklama,Philip C. De Witt Hamer,Roelant S. Eijgelaar,Pim J. French,Hendrikus J. Dubbink,Arnaud J.P.E. Vincent,Wiro J. Niessen,Martin J. van den Bent,Marion Smits,Stefan Klein	100
8	GenNet framework: interpretable deep learning for predicting phenotypes from genetic data 2021 ·Communications Biology ·(unknown),Steven A. Kushner,Manfred Kayser,M. Arfan Ikram,Hieab H.H. Adams,Caroline C. W. Klaver,Wiro J. Niessen,Gennady V. Roshchupkin	39
9	Predicting the 1p/19q Codeletion Status of Presumed Low-Grade Glioma with an Externally Validated Machine Learning Algorithm 2019 ·Clinical Cancer Research ·Sebastian R. van der Voort,Fatih Incekara,Maarten M.J. Wijnenga,(unknown),(unknown),Joost W. Schouten,Martijn P. A. Starmans,Rishi Nandoe Tewarie,Geert J. Lycklama,Pim J. French,Hendrikus J. Dubbink,Martin J. van den Bent,Arnaud J.P.E. Vincent,Wiro J. Niessen,Stefan Klein,Marion Smits	69
10	C-Reactive Protein, Plasma Amyloid-β Levels, and Their Interaction With Magnetic Resonance Imaging Markers 2018 ·Stroke ·Saima Hilal,M. Arfan Ikram,Marcel M. Verbeek,Oscar H. Franco,Erik Stoops,Hugo Vanderstichele,Wiro J. Niessen,Meike W. Vernooij	48
11	Intrasubject multimodal groupwise registration with the conditional template entropy 2018 ·Medical Image Analysis ·(unknown),Stefan Klein,Wyke Huizinga,Margarethus M. Paulides,Wiro J. Niessen,Jef Vandemeulebroucke	18
12	HASE: Framework for efficient high-dimensional association analyses 2016 ·Scientific Reports ·Gennady V. Roshchupkin,Hieab H.H. Adams,Meike W. Vernooij,Albert Hofman,Cornelia M. van Duijn,M. Arfan Ikram,Wiro J. Niessen	15
13	Concurrent white and gray matter degeneration of disease-specific networks in early-stage Alzheimer's disease and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia 2016 ·Neurobiology of Aging ·Rebecca M. E. Steketee,Rozanna Meijboom,Marius de Groot,Esther E. Bron,Wiro J. Niessen,Aad van der Lugt,John C. van Swieten,Marion Smits	17
14	PCA-based groupwise image registration for quantitative MRI 2015 ·Medical Image Analysis ·Wyke Huizinga,Dirk H. J. Poot,(unknown),Remy Klaassen,Bram F. Coolen,Matthijs van Kranenburg,Robert‐Jan van Geuns,André Uitterdijk,(unknown),Jef Vandemeulebroucke,Alexander Leemans,Wiro J. Niessen,Stefan Klein	119
15	Structural Brain Alterations in Community Dwelling Individuals with Chronic Joint Pain 2015 ·American Journal of Neuroradiology ·(unknown),Daniël Bos,Frank Huygen,Wiro J. Niessen,Henning Tiemeier,Albert Hofman,André G. Uitterlinden,Meike W. Vernooij,M. Arfan Ikram,Joyce B. J. van Meurs	18
16	Ankle-Brachial Index, Cognitive Impairment and Cerebrovascular Disease in a Chinese Population 2014 ·Neuroepidemiology ·Saima Hilal,Monica Saini,Chuen Seng Tan,(unknown),Yanhong Dong,(unknown),Wiro J. Niessen,Henri A. Vrooman,Tien Yin Wong,Christopher Chen,Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian,M. Kamran Ikram	25
17	Approximate Sequential Importance Sampling for Fast Particle Filtering 2013 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Ömer Burak Demirel,Ihor Smal,Wiro J. Niessen,Erik Meijering,Ivo F. Sbalzarini	1
18	The Rotterdam Scan Study: Design and update up to 2012 2011 ·Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·M. Arfan Ikram,Aad van der Lugt,Wiro J. Niessen,Gabriël P. Krestin,Peter J. Koudstaal,Albert Hofman,Monique M.B. Breteler,Meike W. Vernooij	104
19	Simulation of minimally invasive vascular interventions for training purposes 2004 ·Computer Aided Surgery ·Tanja Alderliesten,Maurits K. Konings,Wiro J. Niessen	11
20	Active shape model segmentation using a non-linear appearance model: application to 3D AAA segmentation 2003 ·Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) ·Marleen de Bruijne,Bram van Ginneken,Wiro J. Niessen,(unknown)	9

About Wiro J. Niessen

Wiro J. Niessen is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, having authored 541 papers that have together received 19.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (150 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (120 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (97 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (7.3k citations), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (4.5k citations) and Neurology (1.7k citations). Wiro J. Niessen has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Meike W. Vernooij, Aad van der Lugt, M. Arfan Ikram, Albert Hofman, Monique M.B. Breteler, Max A. Viergever, Gabriël P. Krestin, Theo van Walsum, Erik Meijering and Stefan Klein. Their work appears in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

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