Hans Reiber received his M.Sc. EE-degree from the Delft University of Technology in 1971 and his Ph.D. in 1976 from Stanford University , USA . In 1977, he founded the Division of Image Processing (LKEB) at the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam , and continued these activities from 1990 at the Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands. The LKEB specializes in the R&D of automated contour detection (segmentation) and analysis techniques in medical images in various application areas. Since 1995 he is Professor of Medical Image Processing at the LUMC and at the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN). In 1996 he was the co-founder of Heart Core, B.V. and general director until December 2004, when Heart Core was acquired by Bio-Imaging Technologies. Heart Core specialized in the quantitative analysis of medical images in clinical trials, in particular in the cardiovascular field. In addition, he is the Senior Research Director at Medis medical imaging systems B.V., also in Leiden , where such specialized analytical software is being developed in close collaboration with the LKEB. In 2000 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include (knowledge guided) image processing and its clinical applications. He has (co) authored more than 500 scientific publications and was (co) editor of 15 books. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging and on the editorial board of several international journals. Hans Reiber resides in the Netherlands with his wife and daughter. |