Dorin Comaniciu
# Dorin Comaniciu

Dorin Comaniciu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American computer scientist. He is the Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Siemens Healthcare.

## Research

Comaniciu is known for his work in computer vision, medical imaging and machine learning. His academic publications have 54,000 citations with an H-index of 85. As of 2022, he holds 308 US patents and 550 international patent applications. He joined Siemens in 1999 as a senior research scientist with a focus on computer vision applications for automotive systems. Since 2004, he has served in various research and leadership positions, directing technology development in diagnostic imaging and image-guided surgery

Most recently, his team's research has focused on artificial intelligence, hyper-realistic visualization, and precision medicine.

Together with his team and clinical collaborators, he has helped pioneer many clinical products, including efficient bone reading, vascular analysis, cardiac function assessment, trans-esophageal 3D heart valve assessment, guidance for aortic valve implantation, enhanced stent visualization, compressed sensing for Magnetic Resonance, and automatic patient positioning for Computed Tomography.

## Awards and honors

* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Best Paper Award 2000 (together with Visvanathan Ramesh and Peter Meer)
* IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize 2010, for 'Fundamental contributions in Computer Vision'
* IEEE Fellow 2012, for contributions to medical image analysis and computer vision
* American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow 2013, for technical contributions to medical imaging using machine learning, and for leadership in imaging technology
* Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society Fellow 2015, for contributions to the theory and practice of medical imaging and image-guided interventions
* Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow 2017, for contributions to machine intelligence, diagnostic imaging, image-guided interventions, and computer vision
* Honorary doctorate awarded in 2018 from Titu Maiorescu University, Romania
* Member of the National Academy of Medicine 2019
