Prof. Romeny is emeritus professor of Biomedical Image Analysis at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Medical image processing has become a leading field in the Netherlands. Many universities, academic hospitals and companies, Philips in the lead, have a specialized research group in this field. Prof. Romeny is one of the pioneers and founders of this field. Many of the current group leaders were trained by him (see https://www.romeny.info/phd-students/). After his PhD in the neurosciences he was chairman of the Dutch Association for Biophysics and Biomedical Technology.
In 1983 Romeny started as the first physicist at the Radiology Department of the AZU. He became clinical project leader of the first Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) project in the Netherlands, for digital storage and presentation of radiological images. He was chairman of the then young Dutch Association for Clinical Physics (NVKF) and played an important role in the development of the field of clinical physics and the registration of the profession. He developed medical image processing by investing thoroughly in fundamental mathematics and drawing inspiration from the visual system. In 1989, in Utrecht, he initiated the successful SSVM (Scale Space and Variational Methods) bi-annual conference series, still gathering today.
As a professor in Eindhoven, he has played an important role in the development of the analysis and visualization of brain connectivity (6 PhDs, and a successful start-up Mint-Labs, collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing where Prof. Romeny is a visiting professor ), collaboration with Philips on dynamic tumor detection in breast cancer, cardiovascular disease analysis and visualization, interoperative imaging and image integration, MRI 4D flow visualization, pulmonary ischemia, and many other topics. Extensive research has been carried out with the University Hospital of Maastricht into optimizing deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's patients, using advanced tractography methods and ultra-high field MRI. Because of his driving force, he has meant a lot to his employees, students and the companies that worked with him. For many years he was a member of the Program Planning Committee of the ECR, Europe's largest radiology congress (Vienna, 22,000 visitors). For many years he took all his PhD and master students to Vienna, where he introduced them to his large network.
He co-founded the Biomedical and Information Engineering (BMIE) School in Shenyang, China, a collaboration between TU/e, Northeastern University, Philips Healthcare and Neusoft Medical Systems. This course now houses more than 2000 students. He is the initiator and project leader of the Dutch-Chinese RetinaCheck project. This project aims to screen huge numbers of diabetic patients and those who do not yet know they have diabetes in China (where 11.6% of the population has diabetes), to detect early signs of retinal damage and prevent blindness. 55 papers have already been published in this project, and the retinas of thousands of people in China have now been analysed. The project has been converted into a start-up (now acquired by the Chinese clinical partner He Vision Group) in order to allow this project to play a lasting role in the (international) prevention of blindness. He has received the Friendship Award from Liaoning Province in China for this work.
In the field of brain-inspired computing, Prof. Romeny has made important contributions. His book Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis (written entirely in Mathematica) has been reprinted 5 times and is used worldwide as teaching material. Prof. Romeny is a gifted speaker and teacher. His lectures became the basic subject of image processing in the Netherlands for PhD students, organized under the auspices of the research school ASCI (Advanced School for Computing and Imaging). He has an impressive international track record of Summer Schools, keynote lectures, guest lectures (also at schools and for children) and conference contributions. His unwavering enthusiasm has led many to choose the profession of medical image analysis. Prof. Romeny was chairman of the Dutch Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing from 2010 to 2022.
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