Paul Suetens is professor emeritus at KU Leuven. Until this academic year, he was full professor and Head of the Division Image and Speech Processing at the Department of Electrical Engineering of KU Leuven. He was also chairman of the Medical Imaging Research Center at the University Hospital Leuven. He is the author of more than 500 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conference proceedings and author of the book “Fundamentals of Medical Imaging”.
He has been involved in several graduate (Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Sciences) and postgraduate programs (Advanced Medical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering). He was associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Medical Imaging from 2004 to 2019 and has been a member of several research councils and commissions. He is co-founder of two spin-off companies of the KU Leuven (Medicim in 2002 and icometrix in 2011).
His research focuses on medical imaging and medical image computing. Methodologically, this research belongs to the domains of computational science and machine learning.
