Azad Shademan

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 755 citations indexed

About

Azad Shademan is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Azad Shademan has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 755 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Azad Shademan's work include Advanced Vision and Imaging (13 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (7 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (7 papers). Azad Shademan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Vision and Imaging (13 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (7 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (7 papers). Azad Shademan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Iran. Azad Shademan's co-authors include Axel Krieger, Peter C.W. Kim, Simon Léonard, Ryan Decker, Justin D. Opfermann, Martin Jägersand, Farrokh Janabi‐Sharifi, Amir‐massoud Farahmand, Amir massoud Farahmand and Travis Dick and has published in prestigious journals such as Science Translational Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and Surgical Endoscopy.

In The Last Decade

Azad Shademan

28 papers receiving 721 citations

Hit Papers

Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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. Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery
    2016 373 citations Azad Shademan, Ryan Decker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Azad Shademan Canada 14 316 257 232 120 107 30 755
Stamatia Giannarou United Kingdom 18 377 1.2× 380 1.5× 344 1.5× 149 1.2× 45 0.4× 56 926
Abhilash K. Pandya United States 14 289 0.9× 197 0.8× 318 1.4× 65 0.5× 36 0.3× 33 909
Xióngbiāo Luó China 16 430 1.4× 306 1.2× 198 0.9× 165 1.4× 85 0.8× 74 897
Ryan Decker United States 7 262 0.8× 88 0.3× 227 1.0× 28 0.2× 26 0.2× 8 489
Elvis C. S. Chen Canada 16 237 0.8× 302 1.2× 285 1.2× 104 0.9× 23 0.2× 89 637
Max Allan United States 9 278 0.9× 224 0.9× 260 1.1× 115 1.0× 51 0.5× 13 488
Fernando Arámbula Cosı́o Mexico 12 210 0.7× 246 1.0× 176 0.8× 47 0.4× 54 0.5× 61 688
Diego Dall’Alba Italy 14 334 1.1× 122 0.5× 192 0.8× 29 0.2× 125 1.2× 59 588
Mili Shah United States 10 87 0.3× 145 0.6× 47 0.2× 83 0.7× 95 0.9× 34 438
Peter Mountney United Kingdom 19 305 1.0× 641 2.5× 350 1.5× 423 3.5× 20 0.2× 55 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Azad Shademan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Azad Shademan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Azad Shademan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Azad Shademan 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 Azad Shademan. Azad Shademan 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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Decker, Ryan, Azad Shademan, Justin D. Opfermann, et al.. (2017). Biocompatible Near-Infrared Three-Dimensional Tracking System. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 64(3). 549–556. 24 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad, Ryan Decker, Justin D. Opfermann, et al.. (2016). Plenoptic cameras in surgical robotics: Calibration, registration, and evaluation. PubMed. 2016. 708–714. 24 indexed citations
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Cha, Jaepyeong, Azad Shademan, Ryan Decker, et al.. (2015). Multispectral tissue characterization for intestinal anastomosis optimization. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 20(10). 106001–106001. 12 indexed citations
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Decker, Ryan, Azad Shademan, Justin D. Opfermann, et al.. (2015). Performance evaluation and clinical applications of 3D plenoptic cameras. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9494. 94940B–94940B. 7 indexed citations
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Cha, Jaepyeong, et al.. (2014). Multispectral tissue analysis and classification towards enabling automated robotic surgery. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8935. 893527–893527. 4 indexed citations
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Kim, Peter C.W., et al.. (2014). Experimental evaluation of contact-less hand tracking systems for tele-operation of surgical tasks. 3502–3509. 24 indexed citations
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Quintero, Camilo Perez, et al.. (2014). Interactive Teleoperation Interface for Semi-autonomous Control of Robot Arms. 357–363. 4 indexed citations
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Léonard, Simon, et al.. (2013). Kinect technology for hand tracking control of surgical robots: technical and surgical skill comparison to current robotic masters. Surgical Endoscopy. 28(6). 1993–2000. 14 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad, Matthieu Dumont, Simon Léonard, Axel Krieger, & Peter C.W. Kim. (2013). Feasibility of near-infrared markers for guiding surgical robots. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8840. 88400J–88400J. 15 indexed citations
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Dick, Travis, et al.. (2013). Realtime Registration-Based Tracking via Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search. 8 indexed citations
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Quintero, Camilo Perez, et al.. (2013). SEPO: Selecting by pointing as an intuitive human-robot command interface. 1166–1171. 29 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad & Martin Jägersand. (2012). Robust sampling-based planning for uncalibrated visual servoing. 2663–2669. 6 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad. (2012). Uncalibrated Vision-Based Control and Motion Planning of Robotic Arms in Unstructured Environments. University of Alberta Library. 1 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad, Amir‐massoud Farahmand, & Martin Jägersand. (2010). Robust Jacobian estimation for uncalibrated visual servoing. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 5564–5569. 52 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad, et al.. (2010). Building a mobile manipulator from off-the-shelf components. 12. 1116–1121. 8 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad, Amir‐massoud Farahmand, & Martin Jägersand. (2009). Towards Learning Robotic Reaching and Pointing: An Uncalibrated Visual Servoing Approach. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 229–236. 9 indexed citations
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Farahmand, Amir massoud, Azad Shademan, & Martin Jägersand. (2007). Global visual-motor estimation for uncalibrated visual servoing. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 1969–1974. 27 indexed citations
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Janabi‐Sharifi, Farrokh & Azad Shademan. (2004). An adaptive velocity estimation approach for improved disk drive control performance. 2. 1408–1413. 2 indexed citations
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Shademan, Azad & Hamid Soltanian‐Zadeh. (2002). Information fusion approach for detection of brain structures in MRI. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4684. 1622–1622.

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