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For Stanford University Department of Neurosurgery in 2015-2017, the graph shows 54 visible PIs and 76 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (45% of slots across 39 PIs; 39 labels), Neurology as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 18 PIs; 18 labels), and Neurological disorders and treatments as the leading topic (4% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is a healthy pattern, with enough links to reveal several interpretable groups rather than one undifferentiated component. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Gary K. Steinberg (15.2 weighted works; Moyamoya disease diagnosis and treatment, Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications); Daniel T. Chang (14 weighted works; Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques). The clearest collaboration lines are Anand Veeravagu and John K. Ratliff (17 shared works, weight 8). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 34.2, around Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental health, led by Anand Veeravagu, Gerald A. Grant, Gordon Li.