In March 2017, Director of Faculty Development for Basic Science and Professor of Radiology Dr. Dinggang Shen was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)’s College of Fellows at its 2017 Annual Meeting at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
The Department would like to recognize Professor of Radiology Dr. Dinggang Shen for his March induction into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)’s College of Fellows at its 2017 Annual Meeting at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. The (AIMBE)’s College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country.
In his 15+ years on faculty as a basic research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and UNC, Shen has primarily focused on biomedical image analysis. He is internationally known for developing with colleagues image registration, segmentation and classification methods to study neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease. Including 100+ articles in the past three years alone, he has published more than 700 articles in journals and international conference proceedings.
Shen’s current and previous editorial positions for major journals in his field include: Associate Editor (Brain Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Medical Physics); Advisory Board member (Cognitive Computation); and Editorial Board Member (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Medical Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, International Journal of Image and Graphics, CMBBE: Imaging & Visualization, Brain Informatics). He has also served as a Scientific Reviewer for 25+ international journals and is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Other top honors affirming Shen’s expertise in biomedical image analysis include: Most Downloaded Articles (Neuroimage – 2011); Most Cited Paper Award (Image and Vision Computing – 2004-2006 papers); 2006 Best Paper Award (IEEE Signal Processing Society); and 2004 International Educator of the Year (International Biographical Center: Cambridge, England), amongst multiple others.
Regarding his selection amongst a small, but distinctive group of medical and biological engineers nationwide, Dr. Shen noted: “It’s an honor to be a fellow of this prestigious organization, by recognizing my outstanding contributions to automated analysis and interpretation of medical imaging data.”