VA Advanced Imaging Research Center (VAARC) Lecture Series: "Biomedical Imaging and Genetic Data Analysis With AI: Towards Precision Medicine"
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Zoom: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/206080366
Meeting ID: 206 080 366
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Zoom: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/206080366
Meeting ID: 206 080 366
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Departments of Radiology and Medical Informatics
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Wiro Niessen is a professor in Biomedical Image Analysis and Machine Learning at Erasmus MC and Delft University of Technology. His interest is in the development, and validation of quantitative biomedical image analysis methods, and linking imaging and genetic data for improved disease diagnosis and prognosis. He supervised 52 PhD students in these fields. He is a fellow and was president of the MICCAI Society, and CTO of Health-RI, which aims to develop a national health data infrastructure for research and innovation. In 2015 he received the Simon Stevin award, the largest prize in the Netherlands in Applied Sciences. In 2017 he was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 he founded Quantib, an AI company in medical imaging, where he is now the scientific lead.