Ryan Decker

748 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 489 citations indexed

About

Ryan Decker is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Decker has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 489 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 4 papers in Surgery and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Ryan Decker's work include Surgical Simulation and Training (4 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (4 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Ryan Decker is often cited by papers focused on Surgical Simulation and Training (4 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (4 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Ryan Decker collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Ryan Decker's co-authors include Axel Krieger, Simon Léonard, Justin D. Opfermann, Azad Shademan, Peter C.W. Kim, Christopher E. Bayne, Arjun S. Joshi, Jin U. Kang, Peter Kim and Jaepyeong Cha and has published in prestigious journals such as Science Translational Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and Journal of Biomedical Optics.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Decker

8 papers receiving 475 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery

2016 373 citations Azad Shademan, Ryan Decker et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Decker United States	7	262	227	103	88	61	8	489
Sandy Engelhardt Germany	12	228 0.9×	316 1.4×	74 0.7×	176 2.0×	148 2.4×	50	754
Michael Kam United States	6	162 0.6×	137 0.6×	48 0.5×	41 0.5×	33 0.5×	13	274
Mali Shen United Kingdom	12	176 0.7×	98 0.4×	58 0.6×	113 1.3×	70 1.1×	16	424
Songita A. Choudhury United States	6	280 1.1×	294 1.3×	22 0.2×	44 0.5×	43 0.7×	8	587
Zbigniew Nawrat Poland	11	240 0.9×	136 0.6×	43 0.4×	28 0.3×	71 1.2×	60	542
Sophia Bano United Kingdom	12	108 0.4×	86 0.4×	25 0.2×	157 1.8×	49 0.8×	44	412
Hiroki Matsuzaki Japan	12	191 0.7×	322 1.4×	80 0.8×	42 0.5×	111 1.8×	33	539
Munenori Uemura Japan	20	410 1.6×	644 2.8×	19 0.2×	201 2.3×	27 0.4×	51	859
Prateek Mathur Canada	7	115 0.4×	55 0.2×	82 0.8×	66 0.8×	109 1.8×	11	300
Laura J. Brattain United States	12	161 0.6×	83 0.4×	32 0.3×	58 0.7×	177 2.9×	46	558

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Decker

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Decker, Ryan, et al.. (2017). Experimental assessment of a 3-D plenoptic endoscopic imaging system. Chinese Optics Letters. 15(5). 51701–51705. 5 indexed citations

2.

Opfermann, Justin D., Simon Léonard, Ryan Decker, et al.. (2017). Semi-autonomous electrosurgery for tumor resection using a multi-degree of freedom electrosurgical tool and visual servoing. PubMed. 2017. 3653–3660. 35 indexed citations

3.

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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Decker, Ryan, et al.. (2016). 3-D endoscopic imaging using plenoptic camera. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 20. AW4O.2–AW4O.2. 9 indexed citations

6.

Shademan, Azad, Ryan Decker, Justin D. Opfermann, et al.. (2016). Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery. Science Translational Medicine. 8(337). 337ra64–337ra64. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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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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