Biomedical Image Understanding – Methods and Applications

Joo-Hwee Lim is the Head of the Visual Computing Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the co-Director of IPAL (Image & Pervasive Access Laboratory), a French-Singapore Joint Lab. He established the medical image analysis group at I2R in 2006, collaborating with clinicians closely, resulting in strong competency in ocular imaging, brain image analysis, cell image understanding etc at the institute. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers and owns 17 patents in the areas of computer vision, cognitive vision, pattern recognition, and medical image analysis. Sim-Heng Ong is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. His major research areas are computer vision and medical image analysis and visualization. He has worked extensively with clinicians in developing algorithms for a variety of medical applications, and has publications in many highly respected journals and conferences. Wei Xiong is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore. He obtained his PhD degree from the National University of Singapore. His research interest is in computer vision, image processing, pattern classification and acoustic imaging. Dr. Xiong has published over 60 technical papers.