Xu Sun

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 881 citations indexed

About

Xu Sun is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Sun has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 881 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 6 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Xu Sun's work include Retinal Imaging and Analysis (6 papers), Topic Modeling (5 papers) and Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques (5 papers). Xu Sun is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Imaging and Analysis (6 papers), Topic Modeling (5 papers) and Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques (5 papers). Xu Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Xu Sun's co-authors include Weichao Xu, Liangchen Luo, Yan Liu, Yuanhao Xiong, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Houfeng Wang, Wenjie Li, S. C. Chan, Junyang Lin and Pengcheng Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Spine, IEEE Access and Neurocomputing.

In The Last Decade

Xu Sun

30 papers receiving 857 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Fast Implementation of DeLong’s Algorithm for Comparing the Areas Under Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
    2014 390 citations Xu Sun, Weichao Xu IEEE Signal Processing Letters profile →

Peers

Xu Sun
Vajira Thambawita Norway
Jing Zheng China
Inga Strümke Norway
Mohammad Amin Morid United States
Erico Tjoa Singapore
Brian A. Telfer United States
Ali Mottaghi United States
C. Kambhampati United Kingdom
Taye Girma Debelee Ethiopia
Steven A. Hicks Norway
Vajira Thambawita Norway
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Countries citing papers authored by Xu Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xu Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xu Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xu Sun. The network helps show where Xu Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xu Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xu Sun 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 Xu Sun. Xu Sun 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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Ouyang, Kun, et al.. (2025). Generative Frame Sampler for Long Video Understanding. 17900–17917.
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Li, Fei, Junde Wu, Huazhu Fu, et al.. (2024). Open Fundus Photograph Dataset with Pathologic Myopia Recognition and Anatomical Structure Annotation. Scientific Data. 11(1). 99–99. 12 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hongbin, Xu Sun, Shun Liu, Jisheng Dai, & Weichao Xu. (2024). Improvement of Waegeman–Baets–Boullart algorithms for ordered multi-class ROC analysis. Neurocomputing. 596. 128095–128095.
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Bi, Qi, Xu Sun, Shuang Yu, et al.. (2023). MIL-ViT: A multiple instance vision transformer for fundus image classification. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. 97. 103956–103956. 23 indexed citations
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Yang, Wenkai, Yankai Lin, Peng Li, Jie Zhou, & Xu Sun. (2021). RAP: Robustness-Aware Perturbations for Defending against Backdoor Attacks on NLP Models. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 8365–8381. 36 indexed citations
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Sun, Xu, et al.. (2021). A narrative review of glaucoma screening from fundus images. Annals of Eye Science. 6. 27–27. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Pengcheng, Fuli Luo, Shuming Ma, Junyang Lin, & Xu Sun. (2019). A Deep Reinforced Sequence-to-Set Model for Multi-Label Classification. 5252–5258. 44 indexed citations
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Chan, S. C., et al.. (2019). A New Variable Forgetting Factor-Based Bias-Compensated RLS Algorithm for Identification of FIR Systems With Input Noise and Its Hardware Implementation. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers. 67(1). 198–211. 19 indexed citations
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Luo, Liangchen, Yuanhao Xiong, Yan Liu, & Xu Sun. (2019). Adaptive Gradient Methods with Dynamic Bound of Learning Rate. arXiv (Cornell University). 96 indexed citations
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Zhao, Guangxiang, Jingjing Xu, Qi Zeng, Xuancheng Ren, & Xu Sun. (2019). Review-Driven Multi-Label Music Style Classification by Exploiting Style Correlations. 2884–2891. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Weichao, et al.. (2019). Fast and Unbiased Estimation of Volume Under Ordered Three-Class ROC Surface (VUS) Based on Dynamic Programming. IEEE Access. 7. 63972–63982. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Xu, et al.. (2018). Null Distribution of Volume Under Ordered Three-Class ROC Surface (VUS) With Continuous Measurements. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 25(12). 1855–1859. 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Xu, et al.. (2018). Optic Disc Segmentation from Retinal Fundus Images via Deep Object Detection Networks. PubMed. 2018. 5954–5957. 24 indexed citations
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Xu, Weichao, Shun Liu, Xu Sun, Siyang Liu, & Yun Zhang. (2016). A Fast Algorithm for Unbiased Estimation of Variance of AUC Based on Dynamic Programming. IEEE Access. 4. 9553–9560. 11 indexed citations
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Sun, Xu, Houfeng Wang, & Wenjie Li. (2012). Fast Online Training with Frequency-Adaptive Learning Rates for Chinese Word Segmentation and New Word Detection. PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). 1. 253–262. 50 indexed citations
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Qiu, Guixing, Yong Qiu, Zezhang Zhu, et al.. (2011). Re-evaluation of Reliability and Validity of Simplified Chinese Version of SRS-22 Patient Questionnaire. Spine. 36(8). E545–E550. 29 indexed citations
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Sun, Xu, Hisashi Kashima, Ryota Tomioka, Naonori Ueda, & Ping Li. (2011). A New Multi-task Learning Method for Personalized Activity Recognition. 1218–1223. 11 indexed citations

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