2026 Osmar R. Zaïane: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	69	1960	1898	71	65	381	21614

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Osmar R. Zaïane is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada, where they focus on research primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Medicine. Their work covers various subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Neurology.

The scientist's research spans several key topics, illustrating a multidisciplinary approach. These topics include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
COVID-19 Diagnosis Using AI
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Mental Health via Writing

Osmar R. Zaïane has contributed to numerous publications, commonly appearing in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Applied Intelligence
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Some recent papers by Zaïane include:

"U2-Net: Going deeper with nested U-structure for salient object detection," 2020, Pattern Recognition
"UCTransNet: Rethinking the Skip Connections in U-Net from a Channel-Wise Perspective with Transformer," 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Hi-GCN: A hierarchical graph convolution network for graph embedding learning of brain network and brain disorders prediction," 2020, Computers in Biology and Medicine
"MVS-GCN: A prior brain structure learning-guided multi-view graph convolution network for autism spectrum disorder diagnosis," 2022, Computers in Biology and Medicine
"On the Origin of Hallucinations in Conversational Models: Is it the Datasets or the Models?," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

Jinzhu Yang
Peng Cao
Guangqi Wen
Nawshad Farruque

Best Publications

U2-Net: Going Deeper with Nested U-Structure for Salient Object Detection

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2787
Citations
UCTransNet: Rethinking the Skip Connections in U-Net from a Channel-wise Perspective with Transformer

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1161
Citations
Discovering Web access patterns and trends by applying OLAP and data mining technology on Web logs

O.R. Zaiane;Man Xin;Jiawei Han

779
Citations
Privacy Preserving Clustering by Data Transformation

Stanley R. M. Oliveira;Osmar R. Zaiane

627
Citations
Building a recommender agent for e-learning systems

O.R. Zaiane

592
Citations
Current State of Text Sentiment Analysis from Opinion to Emotion Mining

Ali Yadollahi;Ameneh Gholipour Shahraki;Osmar R. Zaiane

549
Citations
DMQL: A Data Mining Query Language for Relational Databases

Jiawei Han;Yongjian Fu;Wei Wang;Krzysztof Koperski

480
Citations
Application of data mining techniques for medical image classification

Maria-Luiza Antonie;Osmar R. Zaïane;Alexandru Coman

480
Citations
Web Usage Mining for a Better Web-Based Learning Environment

Osmar Zaiane

449
Citations
Privacy preserving frequent itemset mining

Stanley R. M. Oliveira;Osmar R. Zaïane

437
Citations
Clustering and Sequential Pattern Mining of Online Collaborative Learning Data

D. Perera;J. Kay;I. Koprinska;K. Yacef

399
Citations
Incremental mining of frequent patterns without candidate generation or support constraint

W. Cheung;O.R. Zaiane

339
Citations
DBMiner: a system for mining knowledge in large relational databases

Jiawei Han;Yongjian Fu;Wei Wang;Jenny Chiang

293
Citations
Educational data mining applications and tasks: A survey of the last 10 years

Behdad Bakhshinategh;Osmar R. Zaiane;Samira Elatia;Donald Ipperciel

291
Citations
Mining positive and negative association rules: an approach for confined rules

Maria-Luiza Antonie;Osmar R. Zaïane

289
Citations
Protecting sensitive knowledge by data sanitization

S.R.M. Oliveira;O.R. Zaiane

288
Citations
A systematic review of data mining and machine learning for air pollution epidemiology.

Colin Bellinger;Mohomed Shazan Mohomed Jabbar;Osmar Zaïane;Alvaro Osornio-Vargas

266
Citations
Text document categorization by term association

M.-L. Antonie;O.R. Zaiane

247
Citations
Fast parallel association rule mining without candidacy generation

O.R. Zaiane;M. El-Hajj;P. Lu

236
Citations
Achieving Privacy Preservation when Sharing Data for Clustering

Stanley R. M. Oliveira;Stanley R. M. Oliveira;Osmar R. Zaïane

225
Citations
Towards evaluating learners' behaviour in a Web-based distance learning environment

O.R. Zaiane;J. Luo

208
Citations
Local Community Identification in Social Networks

Jiyang Chen;Osmar Zaïane;Randy Goebel

205
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiawei Han University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Myra Spiliopoulou Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Jundong Li University of Virginia

Jaideep Srivastava University of Minnesota

Olfa Nasraoui University of Louisville

Bamshad Mobasher DePaul University

Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago

Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney

Simaan AbouRizk University of Alberta

Gregory J. Taylor University of Alberta

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