Associate Professor
Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
Stefan Klein is Associate-Professor in Medical Image Analysis and is affiliated with the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam (BIGR), Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam/NL. In 2002, Stefan received his MSc degree from the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente, Enschede/NL. In 2008 he obtained his PhD degree at the Image Sciences Institute, UMC Utrecht/NL, for his research on optimisation methods for medical image registration. He was co-principal developer of a widely used open-source software package for medical image registration, called Elastix (article cited >3000x), co-organiser of the CADDementia, TADPOLE, and KNOAP2020 grand challenges, general chair of the WBIR2018 conference, and serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. His current research interests include image reconstruction, radiomics, machine learning, and disease progression modelling. He is also active in setting up infrastructures for research and has for instance initiated a national research archive for medical imaging data, currently used by numerous multi-centre imaging studies in the Netherlands. Publications: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=iaAFK0MAAAAJ