Milan SonkaMilan Sonka is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Radiation Oncology, and Lowell C. Battershell Chair in Biomedical Imaging, all at the University of Iowa. He served as Chair f the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2008–2014) and as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (2014–2019). He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Aided Intervention Society (MICCAI), and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
He is the Founding Codirector of an interdisciplinary Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging (2007–) and Founding Director of the Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (2019–). He is the author of four editions of an image processing textbook, Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision (1993, 1998, 2008, 2014), editor of one of three volumes of the SPIE Handbook of Medical Imaging (2000), past Editor-in-Chief of “IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging” (2009–2014), and past editorial board member of the “Medical Image Analysis” journal. His >700 publications were cited more than 42,000 times, and he has an h-index of 80. He cofounded Medical Imaging Applications LLC and VIDA Diagnostics Inc. Read More Read Less