Honors, Conferences, and Community Engagement
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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