Assistant professor
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Willem Grootjans is an assistant professor and technical physician at the department of Radiology at the Leiden University Medical Center. He graduated cum laude from the Technical University of Twente at the faculty of Science and Technology in Technical Medicine with a specialization in Robotics and Imaging. In 2012, he started his PhD at the department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, focusing on the use of positron emission tomography for personalizing clinical management of patients with lung cancer. In 2016 he obtained his PhD at the Radboud faculty of Medical Sciences and started as a postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden University Medical Center at the department of Radiology. During his postdoc, he continued his work in nuclear imaging sciences, as well as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, for the purpose of personalizing clinical management of sarcoma patients. In 2018 he formed a specialized image processing group, at the department of Radiology of the Leiden University Medical Center, responsible for extracting relevant information from medical images for diagnosis and image-guided treatment decisions, also known as the ‘Imaging Services Group’ (ISG). Since 2019 he is head of the ISG which is now responsible for delivering high quality information to radiologists by using state-of-the art image processing software (including AI) that can be used for radiological reporting in clinical routine.
