Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt is professor of Biomedical Imaging at the Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, where he is heading the Division of Image Processing (LKEB). He is also appointed as Medical Delta professor at the at Delft University of Technology in the context of the Medical Delta consortium.

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Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt is professor of Biomedical Imaging at the Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, where he is heading the Division of Image Processing (LKEB). He is also appointed as Medical Delta professor at the at Delft University of Technology in the context of the Medical Delta consortium.

Biomedical Imaging

Nowadays, imaging data is omnipresent in health care and life sciences. They are used to support diagnosis and therapy, but also to derive novel insights into the inner workings of cells and their interactions. The demand for quantitative measurements in these complex and heterogeneous imaging data sets is therefore rapidly expanding. My scientific discipline is a part of computer science, and aims to develop novel computer methods that can automatically extract relevant measurements from biomedical imaging data. Main challenge is to make the translation between what is required in clinical practice and life-sciences on the one hand, and the recent technological developments in computer science on the other hand. My core research revolves around two questions: How do you teach a computer “to see with the prior experience of a human, and with the accuracy of a machine?”, and “How to visualize and interact with complex high-dimensional image data?”, with applications in clinical imaging and biology.

Academic career

1994 Master of Science, Tu Delft 'Quantification of shoulder anatomy from MRI for biomechanical modeling'
1999 PhD Leiden University, thesis title 'Anatomical models in cardiovascular imaging'
2001 Assistant Professor LUMC
2006 Associate Professor LUMC & TU Delft
2011 Medical Delta Professor Biomedical Imaging LUMC & TU Delft. Inaugural address 19-10-2012
2011 Research Director Division of Image Processing, department of Radiology, LUMC

Prizes and honourable appointments

Boudewijn Lelieveldt is an Affiliated Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, with a close collaboration on 1) the development of fast and interactive data analysis methods for spatial transcriptomics and single cell data (BrainScope, Cytosplore), and 2) deploying the Allen Brain Atlases in the LUMC translational neuroscience research program.