Mehran Armand

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Federal Grant PI High Impact

Professor

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Apple (Israel) (2016); Harvard University (2015); Johns Hopkins University (2001–2026); University of Waterloo (1998–2002); Johns Hopkins Medicine (2001–2025); Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (2016); Government of the United States of America (2016); Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (2009–2020); Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (2004–2024); Health First (2015); Earth Resources Technology (United States) (2014–2015); Development Fund (2016); Guide Dogs (2016); Boston Public Schools (2014–2015); National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (2015); Johns Hopkins Hospital (2011–2025); Innovative Research (United States) (2025); Access to Wholistic and Productive Living Institute (2015); University of Baltimore (2018–2025); Beihang University (2016)

Faculty Researcher

37 h-index 244 pubs 4,229 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

Links

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Mehran Armand is a researcher at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His work focuses on the development and application of robotic systems and advanced imaging techniques for minimally invasive surgical procedures, particularly in orthopaedics. He has received federal funding from the NIH for two projects: a robotic system for spinal decompression and interbody fusion, and an image-guided workstation and tools for bone defects. These grants total over $646,000.

Armand's research group investigates areas such as active steering robotic systems utilizing continuum manipulators, dexterous robotic systems for autonomous debridement of bone lesions, and the use of augmented reality for surgical tool tracking. He also explores the acceleration of learning-based algorithms for X-ray image analysis using synthetic data and the development of differentiable frameworks for 2D/3D image registration. His work has resulted in numerous publications, and he maintains an active lab website and leads a research group.

His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 37, with 257 total publications and 4,177 total citations. He is designated as a high-impact researcher due to his high citation count. Key collaborators include Alejandro Martin‐Gomez and Joshua Liu from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Simon C. Mears from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Metrics

h-index: 37
Publications: 244
Citations: 4,229

Selected Publications

PENGWIN 2026: Peripelvic Fracture Segmentation and Reduction Planning Challenge (2026)

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PENGWIN 2026: Peripelvic Fracture Segmentation and Reduction Planning Challenge (2026)

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Revisiting lesion tracking in 3D total body photography (2026)

Medical Image Analysis 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
FluoroSAM: A Language-Promptable Foundation Model for Flexible X-Ray Image Segmentation (2025)

Lecture notes in computer science 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Uncertainty Quantification in Image-based 2D/3D Registration and Its Relationship with Accuracy (2025)

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
An Image-Guided Robotic System for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: System Development and Experimental Evaluation (2025)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 1 citation DOI OpenAlex