Dorin Comaniciu Explained

Dorin Comaniciu
Field:Machine Intelligence, Diagnostic Imaging, Image-Guided Surgery, Computer Vision
Work Institution:Siemens, Siemens Healthcare
Awards:Longuet-Higgins Prize (2010), IEEE Fellow (2012), ACM Fellow (2017), Elected to National Academy of Medicine (2019)

Dorin Comaniciu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American computer scientist. He is the Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Siemens Healthcare.

Research

Comaniciu is known for his work in computer vision,[1] [2] medical imaging[3] and machine learning.[4] [5] His academic publications have 54,000 citations with an H-index of 85.[6] As of 2022, he holds 308 US patents[7] and 550 international patent applications.[8] He joined Siemens in 1999 as a senior research scientist with a focus on computer vision applications for automotive systems.[9] Since 2004, he has served in various research and leadership positions, directing technology development in diagnostic imaging[10] [11] and image-guided surgery[12]

Most recently, his team's research has focused on artificial intelligence,[13] [14] [15] hyper-realistic visualization,[16] and precision medicine.[17]

Together with his team and clinical collaborators, he has helped pioneer many clinical products, including efficient bone reading,[18] vascular analysis, cardiac function assessment, trans-esophageal 3D heart valve assessment,[19] guidance for aortic valve implantation,[20] enhanced stent visualization, compressed sensing for Magnetic Resonance,[21] and automatic patient positioning for Computed Tomography.

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Mean shift: A robust approach toward feature space analysis . 10.1109/34.1000236 . 2002 . Comaniciu . D. . Meer . P. . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence . 24 . 5 . 603–619 .
  2. Kernel-based object tracking . 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1195991 . 2003 . Comaniciu . D. . Ramesh . V. . Meer . P. . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence . 25 . 5 . 564–577 .
  3. Shaping the future through innovations: From medical imaging to precision medicine . 10.1016/j.media.2016.06.016 . 27349829 . 2016 . Comaniciu . D. . Engel . K. . Georgescu . B. . Mansi . T. . Medical Image Analysis . 33 . 19–26 . 1605.02029 .
  4. Book: Marginal Space Learning for Medical Image Analysis . Springer . 2014.
  5. Ghesu . Florin C. . Krubasik . Edward . Georgescu . Bogdan . Singh . Vivek . Zheng . Yefeng . Hornegger . Joachim . Comaniciu . Dorin . 2016 . Marginal Space Deep Learning: Efficient Architecture for Volumetric Image Parsing . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging . 35 . 5 . 1217–1228 . 10.1109/TMI.2016.2538802 . 27046846 . 0278-0062.
  6. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-XZ2HrAAAAAJ Publications according to Google Scholar
  7. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&Query=in%2FComaniciu-Dorin$+or+in%2FCominciu$ US Patents of Dorin Comaniciu
  8. https://worldwide.espacenet.com/searchResults?DB=EPODOC&IN=%22Dorin+Comaniciu%22%20or%20%22Comaniciu+Dorin%22 Worldwide Patents of Dorin Comaniciu
  9. Zhu . Ying . Comaniciu . Dorin . Pellkofer . Martin . Koehler . Thorsten . 2006 . Reliable Detection of Overtaking Vehicles Using Robust Information Fusion . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems . 7 . 4 . 401–414 . 10.1109/TITS.2006.883936 . 1524-9050.
  10. http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/11/princeton_inventor_refines_com.html Princeton inventor refines computer vision technology for doctors, wins recognition for work
  11. https://www.dotmed.com/legal/print/story.html?nid=1962 Siemens Showcases a New Level of Echocardiography
  12. http://www.rdmag.com/award-winners/2015/10/getting-heart-visualization Getting to the Heart of Visualization
  13. Book: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-46726-9_27 . 10.1007/978-3-319-46726-9_27 . An Artificial Agent for Anatomical Landmark Detection in Medical Images . Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2016 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 2016 . Ghesu . Florin C. . Georgescu . Bogdan . Mansi . Tommaso . Neumann . Dominik . Hornegger . Joachim . Comaniciu . Dorin . 9902 . 229–237 . 978-3-319-46725-2 .
  14. 1611.10336 . Liao . Rui . Miao . Shun . Pierre de Tournemire . Grbic . Sasa . Kamen . Ali . Mansi . Tommaso . Comaniciu . Dorin . An Artificial Agent for Robust Image Registration . 2016 . cs.CV .
  15. Ghesu . Florin-Cristian . Georgescu . Bogdan . Zheng . Yefeng . Grbic . Sasa . Maier . Andreas . Hornegger . Joachim . Comaniciu . Dorin . 2019 . Multi-Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time 3D-Landmark Detection in CT Scans . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence . 41 . 1 . 176–189 . 10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2782687 . 29990011 . 0162-8828.
  16. https://undark.org/article/medical-imaging-cinematic-rendering/ Medical Imaging Goes to the Movies
  17. Kayvanpour. Elham. Mansi. Tommaso. Sedaghat-Hamedani. Farbod. Amr. Ali. Neumann. Dominik. Georgescu. Bogdan. Seegerer. Philipp. Kamen. Ali. Haas. Jan. 2015-07-31. Towards Personalized Cardiology: Multi-Scale Modeling of the Failing Heart. PLOS ONE. 10. 7. e0134869. 10.1371/journal.pone.0134869. 26230546. 4521877. 2015PLoSO..1034869K. 1932-6203. free.
  18. http://www.birpublications.org/doi/abs/10.1259/bjr.20160809?journalCode=bjr Bone Reading
  19. Ionasec . Razvan Ioan . Voigt . Ingmar . Georgescu . Bogdan . Yang Wang . Houle . Helene . Vega-Higuera . Fernando . Navab . Nassir . Comaniciu . Dorin . 2010 . Patient-Specific Modeling and Quantification of the Aortic and Mitral Valves From 4-D Cardiac CT and TEE . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging . 29 . 9 . 1636–1651 . 10.1109/TMI.2010.2048756 . 20442044 . 0278-0062.
  20. http://www.ehealthnews.eu/siemens/2259-siemens-wins-2010-techno-college-innovation-award Siemens Wins 2010 Techno-College Innovation Award
  21. https://www.itnonline.com/content/fda-clears-compressed-sensing-mri-acceleration-technology-siemens-healthineers Compressed Sensing
  22. http://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/cof-1501/ AIMBE citation
  23. http://www.miccai.org/about-miccai/miccai-fellows/ title MICCAI Fellows