Wiro Niessen

Wiro Niessen
Born	(1969-11-15)15 November 1969 Geldrop
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	Utrecht University
Scientific career
Institutions	Erasmus University Medical Center, Delft University of Technology
Thesis	(2002)

Wiro J. Niessen is a Dutch scientist in biomedical image analysis and machine learning, Professor at Erasmus University Medical Center and Delft University of Technology. In 2015 he received the Simon Stevin Meester Award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. He is Director of the biomedical image analysis platform of the European Organization for Imaging Research.

Career

Wiro Niessen was born in Geldrop, on November 15, 1969. He received a master's degree in Physics in 1993, and later a PhD in Medical Imaging from Utrecht University in 1997. He was a postdoctoral researcher, assistant Professor and associate Professor at the Image Science Institute of the University Medical Center Utrecht from 1997 to 2004. He was appointed Full Professor of Biomedical Image Processing in the Departments of Radiology and Medical Informatics at the Erasmus University Medical Center in 2005. His research foci include computer vision, biomedical image analysis, and computer assisted interventions. He was also appointed Professor at Delft University of Technology at the faculty of Applied Sciences the same year.

In 2017 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selected publications

• Poels, Mariëlle MF, et al. "Cerebral microbleeds are associated with worse cognitive function: the Rotterdam Scan Study." Neurology 78.5 (2012): 326–333.
• Vernooij, M. W., et al. "Prevalence and risk factors of cerebral microbleeds: the Rotterdam Scan Study." Neurology 70.14 (2008): 1208–1214.
• Frangi, Alejandro F., et al. "Automatic construction of multiple-object three-dimensional statistical shape models: Application to cardiac modeling." IEEE transactions on medical imaging 21.9 (2002): 1151–1166.
• Frangi, Alejandro F., et al. "Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering." International conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1998.