Honors, Conferences, and Community Engagement

I. Honors and Awards

• MICCAI Fellow: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Society, 2019

• Honorable Mention: Erbsmann Award, IPMI 1997

  • • S. Aylward and S. Pizer, “Continuous Gaussian mixture modeling,” in INFORMATION PROCESSING IN MEDICAL IMAGING, 1997, vol. 1230, pp. 176–189. (Honorable mention for Erbsmann Award)

• “Medicine in the 21st Century,” Discovery Health Channel, Featured the clinical application of my vessel modeling software, November, 1999

• “Fighting Cancer with Code”, Endeavors (UNC’s Research Magazine), Biographical article, Spring, 1999

II. Support of Professional Societies, Journals, and Academic Programs

• National Center for Image Guided Therapy

  • • 2022 – Present Advisory Board Member

• NIH NCI Imaging Data Commons, advisory board

  • • 2022 – Present Advisory Board Member 

• Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering

  • • 2021 – Present Industry Advisory Board Member

• MICCAI Special Interest Group on Medical Ultrasound (SIGMUS)

  • • 2020 – Present Co-Founder and Treasurer

• MONAI (Medical Open Network for AI)

  • • 2019 – Present Chair of Advisory Board

• Johns Hopkins University, Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics,

  • • 2013 – Present Board Member, strategic advisory board

• MICCAI Society

  • • 2015 – 2020 Treasurer and Executive Board Member

    • 2013 – 2020 Board of Directors Member

• Insight Software Consortium (Non-profit management of the Insight Toolkit)

  • • 2010 – 2017 Treasurer

    • 2003 – 2010 Elected President

    • 2003 Co-founder

• NIH, Center for Scientific Review

  • • 2011, 2012 Ad Hoc Reviewer for Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics Study Section (BCHI)

    • 2002, 2003, 2005 Ad Hoc Reviewer for DMG (now BMIT) Study Section

    • 2002, 2003 Program Project Proposal Reviewer

    • 2002, 2003 Ad Hoc Reviewer for NCI/NIBIB, Novel In-Vivo Imaging SRG

• Triangle Area Neural Network Society

  • • 1993 – 1994 President

• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

  • • 2002 – 2023 Associate Editor

    • 2005 Guest Editor with K. Cleary and DJ Hawkes: "Special Issue on Intraoperative Image Processing for Surgical Guidance," 24(11), 2005

• SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging

  • • 2013 – 2022 Associate Editor

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Computer Society

  • • 2009 – Present Senior Member

    • 1993 – 2009 Member

• Reviewed for multiple journals, including the following

  • • Medical Physics

    • Journal of Biomedical Informatics

    • Journal of Electronic Imaging

    • Medical Image Analysis

    • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

    • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

    • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

• Reviewed for multiple conferences, including the following

  • • MICCAI

    • SPIE

    • ISBI

    • IEEE Vis

    • IPMI

    • CVPR

III. Conference and Workshop Organizer

III.a. MICCAI Conference                             

• 2022 – 2023 Program Committee Member POCUS/ASMUS workshop

• 2017 – 18, 20 – 21 Co-Chair, Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS/ASMUS) workshop

• 2018 Panelist at Academia and Industry Event

• 2015 Co-Organizer, Tutorial “Navigation of interventional and surgical devices using open-source software”

• 2015 Advisory Committee, “2nd Workshop on Computer Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy”

• 2012 – 2021 Founder and Chair, MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award

• 2011 – 2012 Main Conference Program Committee Member

• 2011 – 2021 Founder and Organizer: Young Scientist Publication Impact Award

• 2011 Session Chair: Ears and Eyes

• 2008 – 2010 Founder and Organizer: Best Biomedical Visualization Contest

• 2007 Workshop Co-Organizer: "Open Source and Open Data for MICCAI" with Tina Kapur, Luis Ibanez, and Kevin Cleary

• 2006 Workshop Co-Organizer: "Open Source and Open Data for MICCAI"

• 2005 Workshop Co-Organizer: "Workshop on Open-Source Software"

• 2003 Tutorial Co-Organizer: "The Insight Toolkit"

III.b. Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI)

• 2017 Venue Chair

• 2017 Program Committee

III.c. International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

• 2018 Session Chair “Computer Aided Diagnosis”

• 2016 Co-organizer of tutorial “Measuring and benchmarking algorithm performance in biomedical image analysis”

• 2013, 2015 – 2017 Co-Chair of Grand Challenges

III.d. SPIE Medical Imaging Conference

• • Computer-Aided Diagnosis Conference

    • • 2014 Co-Chair with L. M. Hadjiiski

      • 2013 Co-Chair with C. L. Novak

      • 2009 – 2015 Program Committee

  • Image Processing Conference

    • • 2005 Annual Workshop Co-Organizer and Keynote Presenter “Graphs and Trees in Medical Image Analysis: Shape and Function”

      • 2006 – 2009 Program Committee

  • Session Chair

    • • 2016 Vessels and Heart

      • 2015 Vessels, Heart, and Eye

      • 2012 Vascular Imaging

      • 2011 Breast Imaging

  • Live Demonstration Workshop

    • • 2009 – 2018 Founder and Co-organizer

  • Insight Toolkit Tutorial

    • • 2002 – 2005 Co-organizer and instructor

  • ITK in Biomedical Research and Commercial Applications Tutorial

    • • 2016 Co-organizer and instructor

III.e. Common Toolkit (CTK) Conferences

• 2011 CTK Hackfest Organizer

III.f. Insight Toolkit (ITK) Conferences

• 2011 Co-Chair “Innovate, Collaborate, & Reduce Costs with Open Source Solutions” Conference in Research Triangle Park

• 2011 ITK Hackfest Organizer at Kitware

• 2001 ITK Developers Meeting at UNC

III.g. Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine

• 2012 Program Committee Member

• 2010 Program Committee Member

III.h. RSNA

• 2008 – 2010 Instructor: Course on Open Source and Applications for Medical Image Processing and Visualization

III.i. IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume and Point-Based Graphics

• 2008 Program Committee

III.j. SIGGRAPH

• 2005 Tutorial Co-Organizer: “Hot Topics in 3D Medical Visualization”

III.k. IEEE Visualization

• 2002 – 2003 Tutorial Co-Organizer: "Visualizing the Human Body with ITK and VTK"

III.l. MONAI Bootcamp

• 2021 Co-Organizer