Zongcai Ruan

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 914 citations indexed

About

Zongcai Ruan is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biophysics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zongcai Ruan has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 914 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 5 papers in Biophysics and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Zongcai Ruan's work include Cell Image Analysis Techniques (5 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Zongcai Ruan is often cited by papers focused on Cell Image Analysis Techniques (5 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Zongcai Ruan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Zongcai Ruan's co-authors include J. Simpson, Fuhui Long, Eugene W. Myers, Deniz Atasoy, Scott M. Sternson, Zuhong Lu, Xiaoyan Ke, Tianyu Tang, Shanshan Hong and Yijun Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Zongcai Ruan

16 papers receiving 896 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.

V3D enables real-time 3D visualization and quantitative analysis of large-scale biological image data sets

2010 507 citations Zongcai Ruan, Fuhui Long et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zongcai Ruan China	9	480	234	231	166	122	16	914
Jingpeng Wu China	10	542 1.1×	141 0.6×	212 0.9×	120 0.7×	131 1.1×	36	964
Shawn Mikula United States	13	246 0.5×	196 0.8×	183 0.8×	21 0.1×	117 1.0×	21	860
Jan Funke United States	13	219 0.5×	84 0.4×	153 0.7×	43 0.3×	37 0.3×	29	757
Joergen Kornfeld Germany	11	216 0.5×	149 0.6×	126 0.5×	36 0.2×	27 0.2×	13	628
Armen Stepanyants United States	15	250 0.5×	779 3.3×	195 0.8×	85 0.5×	32 0.3×	27	1.2k
Peter H. Li United States	13	124 0.3×	241 1.0×	324 1.4×	25 0.2×	28 0.2×	24	672
Nathan Clack United States	9	282 0.6×	438 1.9×	188 0.8×	77 0.5×	39 0.3×	10	933
Qiuyuan Zhong China	8	257 0.5×	161 0.7×	147 0.6×	48 0.3×	43 0.4×	13	534
Marcelo Cicconet United States	13	171 0.4×	130 0.6×	759 3.3×	13 0.1×	29 0.2×	29	1.3k
Linqing Feng China	13	166 0.3×	196 0.8×	204 0.9×	52 0.3×	21 0.2×	39	670

Countries citing papers authored by Zongcai Ruan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zongcai Ruan

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

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16 of 16 papers shown

Wang, Yimin, et al.. (2023). Vaa3D-x for cross-platform teravoxel-scale immersive exploration of multidimensional image data. Bioinformatics. 39(1). 2 indexed citations

Chen, Jiangtao, et al.. (2022). Functional Dissection of Protein Kinases in Sexual Development and Female Receptivity of Drosophila. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 923171–923171. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Shengdian, Yimin Wang, Lijuan Liu, et al.. (2022). Petabyte-Scale Multi-Morphometry of Single Neurons for Whole Brains. Neuroinformatics. 20(2). 525–536. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Yimin, Qi Li, Lijuan Liu, et al.. (2019). TeraVR empowers precise reconstruction of complete 3-D neuronal morphology in the whole brain. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3474–3474. 54 indexed citations

Hong, Shanshan, Xiaoyan Ke, Tianyu Tang, et al.. (2011). Detecting abnormalities of corpus callosum connectivity in autism using magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor tractography. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 194(3). 333–339. 55 indexed citations

Ruan, Zongcai, et al.. (2010). V3D enables real-time 3D visualization and quantitative analysis of large-scale biological image data sets. Nature Biotechnology. 28(4). 348–353. 507 indexed citations breakdown →

Ruan, Zongcai, et al.. (2010). Automatic reconstruction of 3D neuron structures using a graph-augmented deformable model. Bioinformatics. 26(12). i38–i46. 85 indexed citations

Ke, Xiaoyan, Tianyu Tang, Shanshan Hong, et al.. (2009). White matter impairments in autism, evidence from voxel-based morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging. Brain Research. 1265. 171–177. 83 indexed citations

Lam, S., Zongcai Ruan, Ting Zhao, et al.. (2009). Segmentation of center brains and optic lobes in 3D confocal images of adult fruit fly brains. Methods. 50(2). 63–69. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Xun‐Heng, Haiqing Huang, Zongcai Ruan, & Zuhong Lu. (2008). Fast Face Orientation Estimation from an Uncalibrated Monocular Camera. 4. 186–190. 3 indexed citations

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Ke, Xiaoyan, Shanshan Hong, Tianyu Tang, et al.. (2008). Voxel-based morphometry study on brain structure in children with high-functioning autism. Neuroreport. 19(9). 921–925. 67 indexed citations

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Yang, Hongyu, Zhenyu Zhou, Yun Liu, et al.. (2007). <title>Different hemodynamic response of prefontal area for men and women to mental arithmetic: a near-infrared spectroscopy study</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 653410–653410. 1 indexed citations

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Ruan, Zongcai, et al.. (2007). IR Image Based Eye Gaze Estimation. 4. 220–224. 15 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhenyu & Zongcai Ruan. (2006). Multicontext wavelet-based thresholding segmentation of brain tissues in magnetic resonance images. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 25(3). 381–385. 13 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zhenyu & Zongcai Ruan. (2005). Brain Magnetic Resonance Images Segmentation Based on Wavelet Method. PubMed. 56. 3078–3081. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Run, et al.. (2002). Line detection algorithm based on random sample theory. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4875. 619–619. 4 indexed citations

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