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Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Lvmin Zhang
Stanford University
2
Florinel-Alin Croitoru
University of Bucharest
3
William Peebles
University of California, Los Angeles
4
Nicolas R Barthélemy
Washington University in St. Louis
5
Yuchao Jiang
Fudan University
6
Julian Wyatt
Durham University
7
Ashlea Segal
Monash Health
8
Leon Qi Rong Ooi
National University of Singapore
9
Jong Duck Choi
Konkuk University
10
Jonas Lynge Olesen
Aarhus University

Papers

1
Highly accurate blood test for Alzheimer’s disease is similar or superior to clinical cerebrospinal fluid tests
Nature Medicine|2024
408 cit.
2
Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies
Nature|2025
50 cit.
3
Publication in Nature Communications (2024) [45 citations, W4400747451]
Nature Communications|2024
45 cit.
4
Publication in Science Advances (2024) [44 citations, W4399562725]
Science Advances|2024
44 cit.
5
Publication in Nature Communications (2024) [41 citations, W4392683903]
Nature Communications|2024
41 cit.
6
Transparent Image Layer Diffusion using Latent Transparency
ACM Transactions on Graphics|2024
29 cit.
7
Learning Rate Curriculum
International Journal of Computer Vision|2024
21 cit.
8
Publication in Nature Mental Health (2025) [8 citations, W4411568467]
Nature Mental Health|2025
8 cit.
9
Multiscale Heterogeneity of White Matter Morphometry in Psychiatric Disorders
Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging|2025
7 cit.
10
Lightning fast video anomaly detection via multi-scale adversarial distillation
Computer Vision and Image Understanding|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Nico U.F. Dosenbach
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
2
Brenden Tervo‐Clemmens
Allen Institute for Brain Science
3
Bratislav Mišić
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
4
Timothy O. Laumann
Washington University in St. Louis
5
Michael E. Sughrue
University of Cambridge
6
Noam Shemesh
Champalimaud Foundation
7
Christian K. Tamnes
University of Oslo
8
Avram J. Holmes
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9
The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Tecnológico de Monterrey
10
Noah Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Papers

1
Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals
Nature|2022
2k cit.
2
CAT: a computational anatomy toolbox for the analysis of structural MRI data
GigaScience|2024
816 cit.
3
Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex
Nature Neuroscience|2022
783 cit.
4
A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex
Nature|2023
587 cit.
5
neuromaps: structural and functional interpretation of brain maps
Nature Methods|2022
471 cit.
6
The functional role of the precuneus
Brain|2023
290 cit.
7
Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain
Nature|2024
237 cit.
8
A canonical trajectory of executive function maturation from adolescence to adulthood
Nature Communications|2023
203 cit.
9
Local molecular and global connectomic contributions to cross-disorder cortical abnormalities
Nature Communications|2022
128 cit.
10
Time-resolved structure-function coupling in brain networks
Communications Biology|2022
99 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Randy L. Buckner
Harvard University
2
Olaf Sporns
Indiana University Bloomington
3
Robert Turner
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
4
Marc Joliot
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5
Paul M. Thompson
University of Southern California
6
Bruce Fischl
Harvard University
7
Alan Connelly
Mercer University
8
Anders M. Dale
J. Craig Venter Institute
9
Ronald Killiany
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
10
Tianzi Jiang
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Papers

1
Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain
NeuroImage|2002
16.8k cit.
2
An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest
NeuroImage|2006
14.1k cit.
3
Complex network measures of brain connectivity: Uses and interpretations
NeuroImage|2009
12k cit.
4
Cortical Surface-Based Analysis
NeuroImage|1999
11.5k cit.
5
The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity
Journal of Neurophysiology|2011
9.8k cit.
6
Whole Brain Segmentation
Neuron|2002
9k cit.
7
The organization of the human cerebellum estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity
Journal of Neurophysiology|2011
7.9k cit.
8
Cortical Surface-Based Analysis
NeuroImage|1999
6.4k cit.
9
Measuring the thickness of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2000
6k cit.
10
Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during childhood through early adulthood
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2004
5.6k cit.

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