Ron Kikinis

Ron Kikinis is an American physician and scientist best known for his research in the fields of imaging informatics, image guided surgery, and medical image computing. He is a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School. Kikinis is the founding director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the Vice-Chair for Biomedical Informatics Research in the Department of Radiology.

Ron Kikinis
Portrait of Ron Kikinis
Born(1956-03-00)March , 1956
Haifa, Israel
NationalityUnited States, Switzerland, Israel
Known forMedical Image Computing
Scientific career
FieldsMedical research,
Radiology,
Image guided surgery,
Medical image computing,
Imaging informatics
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Fraunhofer MEVIS
University of Bremen

Education

Kikinis trained as a both a physician (receiving his M.D. degree from the University of Zurich in 1982) and as a researcher in computer vision at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. During his studies, he developed an interest in using medical imaging, image processing, visualization, and human-computer interaction to enhance the performance of physicians and improve patient care.

Surgical Planning Laboratory

Relocating to the United States in 1988, he joined Brigham and Women's Hospital's Department of Radiology, under the mentorship of Ferenc A. Jolesz. In 1990, Kikinis founded the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL)[1] in the Department of Radiology at BWH. The SPL is an academic laboratory focusing on basic and translational research. Kikinis established the SPL as a center for clinical collaboration with other medical specialties in the areas of radiology, surgery, and internal medicine.[2]

Under Kikinis's leadership, the SPL has participated in collaborative research projects with hundreds of physicians, computer scientists, and other researchers at BWH and across the world. The SPL has advanced specific technologies such as image segmentation,[3] data set registration,[4] medical visualization,[5] intraoperative imaging,[6] surgical navigation,[7] and user interfaces;[8] tailored them to address specific medical problems; and disseminated them through open source software development in addition to traditional academic publication.[9][10]

Academic and research career

Kikinis was appointed professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in 2004. In 2010 he became the Robert Greenes Distinguished Director of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Radiology at BWH.[11] In May 2020, he was appointed as the B. Leonard Holman Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Vice-Chair for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Radiology, Brigham Health.

Kikinis has directed or participated in a number of major research efforts. He served as the principal investigator (PI) of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC)[12] a National Center for Biomedical Computing and a part of the NIH Roadmap Initiative of the National Institutes of Health. NA-MIC's unique organization under the Roadmap Initiative consisted of multiple computer science and medical teams throughout the United States.[13]

Kikinis is PI for the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC)[14] a Biomedical Technology Resource Center funded by the NIBIB. He is director of collaborations for the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT)[15][16] at BWH, an NIH-sponsored clinical research center combining diverse imaging, computational technology, and image guided therapy within the hospital operating room. He is PI for 3DSlicer, a free, open source, cross-platform medical image processing, analysis, and visualization software platform.[17]

In addition to his activities in the US, he was appointed to the position of "Institutsleiter" (head of institute) of Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS[18] and Professor of Medical Image Computing at the computer science department of the University of Bremen in Germany in January 2014, serving until 2020.[19][20]

Kikinis has also served on numerous boards and advisory committees for research efforts worldwide.

Publications

Kikinis is the author or co-author of more than 330 peer-reviewed articles.

References
  1. "Surgical Planning Laboratory". www.spl.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  2. "Overview - SPLWeb". www.spl.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  3. Kikinis, Ron; Pieper, Steve (2011). "3D Slicer as a Tool for Interactive Brain Tumor Segmentation". 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. Embs 2008. 30Th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. 2011. pp. 6982–6984. doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091765. ISBN 978-1-4577-1589-1. ISSN 1557-170X. PMC 3991434. PMID 22255945.
  4. Wells, W. M.; Viola, P.; Atsumi, H.; Nakajima, S.; Kikinis, R. (March 1996). "Multi-modal volume registration by maximization of mutual information". Medical Image Analysis. 1 (1): 35–51. doi:10.1016/S1361-8415(01)80004-9. ISSN 1361-8415. PMID 9873920.
  5. Gering, D. T.; Nabavi, A.; Kikinis, R.; Hata, N.; O'Donnell, L. J.; Grimson, W. E.; Jolesz, F. A.; Black, P. M.; Wells, W. M. (June 2001). "An integrated visualization system for surgical planning and guidance using image fusion and an open MR". Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 13 (6): 967–975. doi:10.1002/jmri.1139. ISSN 1053-1807. PMID 11382961.
  6. DiMaio, Simon; Kapur, Tina; Cleary, Kevin; Aylward, Stephen; Kazanzides, Peter; Vosburgh, Kirby; Ellis, Randy; Duncan, Jim; Farahani, Keyvan (2007). "Challenges in Image-Guided Therapy System Design". NeuroImage. 37 (1): S144–S151. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.04.026. ISSN 1053-8119. PMC 3780776. PMID 17644360.
  7. Chen, Xiaojun; Xu, Lu; Wang, Huixiang; Wang, Fang; Wang, Qiugen; Kikinis, Ron (March 2017). "Development of a surgical navigation system based on 3D Slicer for intraoperative implant placement surgery". Medical Engineering & Physics. 41: 81–89. doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2017.01.005. ISSN 1350-4533. PMC 5549678. PMID 28109564.
  8. Halle, Michael; Demeusy, Valentin; Kikinis, Ron (2017-03-27). "The Open Anatomy Browser: A Collaborative Web-Based Viewer for Interoperable Anatomy Atlases". Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 11: 22. doi:10.3389/fninf.2017.00022. ISSN 1662-5196. PMC 5366788. PMID 28396633.
  9. Kapur, Tina; Pieper, Steve; Fedorov, Andriy; Fillion-Robin, J-C; Halle, Michael; O'Donnell, Lauren; Lasso, Andras; Ungi, Tamas; Pinter, Csaba (October 2016). "Increasing the Impact of Medical Image Computing Using Community-Based Open-Access Hackathons: the NA-MIC and 3D Slicer Experience". Medical Image Analysis. 33: 176–180. doi:10.1016/j.media.2016.06.035. ISSN 1361-8415. PMC 5003088. PMID 27498015.
  10. Norton, Isaiah; Essayed, WalidIbn; Zhang, Fan; Pujol, Sonia; Yarmarkovich, Alex; Golby, Alexandra J.; Kindlmann, Gordon; Wasserman, Demian; Estepar, Raul San Jose (2017-11-01). "SlicerDMRI: Open Source Diffusion MRI Software for Brain Cancer Research". Cancer Research. 77 (21): e101–e103. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-0332. ISSN 0008-5472. PMC 5679308. PMID 29092950.
  11. "Ron Kikinis, MD - Department of Radiology". researchfaculty.brighamandwomens.org. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  12. "NAMIC". www.na-mic.org. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  13. "About NA-MIC - NAMIC". na-mic.org. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  14. "Neuroimaging Analysis Center". nac.spl.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  15. "The Ferenc Jolesz National Center for Image Guided Therapy". ncigt.org. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  16. "National Center for Image-Guided Therapy - Brigham and Women's Hospital". www.brighamandwomens.org. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  17. Fedorov, Andriy; Beichel, Reinhard; Kalpathy-Cramer, Jayashree; Finet, Julien; Fillion-Robin, Jean-Christophe; Pujol, Sonia; Bauer, Christian; Jennings, Dominique; Fennessy, Fiona (November 2012). "3D Slicer as an Image Computing Platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network". Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 30 (9): 1323–1341. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2012.05.001. ISSN 0730-725X. PMC 3466397. PMID 22770690.
  18. "Dr. Prof. Ron Kikinis home page". Fraunhofer MEVIS.
  19. "Prof. Dr. Ron Kikinis - Fraunhofer MEVIS". Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  20. "Medical Image Computing | MIC – Uni Bremen (Ron Kikinis)". www.mic.uni-bremen.de. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
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