Stefan, General Chair of the BIGR, has recently been appointed as Full Professor in Applied Medical Image Analysis. Congratulations to Professor Stefan Klein!!
His research line is embedded within the department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine of the Erasmus MC, and focuses on the development, validation and implementation of novel image analysis methods for medical applications, towards more efficient healthcare and research.
With his team, Prof. Klein brings state-of-the-art techniques from computer science to the medical imaging domain, further developing, optimising and rigorously validating them. He strongly believes in the power of open science to promote research reproducibility: sharing code, sharing data, and collaborating rather than competing. His interests span a wide range of domains: in the last 5 years he has worked on fundamental technology for accelerated magnetic resonance image (MRI) acquisition and quantification, multi-scale and multi-modal retina imaging, novel spatiotemporal models of the developing and aging brain, and AI-supported diagnosis and prediction methods for various types of cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, osteoarthritis, and major eye diseases.
Besides performing research, Prof. Klein is also active in setting up infrastructures that facilitate research in medical imaging. He has initiated a national Health-RI XNAT research archive for medical imaging data, is Imaging Community manager at Health-RI, and director of the Euro-BioImaging Population Imaging node that offers image data management and analysis services to the international community.
It is his ambition that, in 10 years, the most successful methods will be available for healthcare and/or clinical research, after rigorous validation on representative data from all hospitals in the Netherlands, plus selected international hospitals, which will be made possible thanks to the co-developed national and European infrastructure for health data reuse.