
Contact: Dorin.Comaniciu at siemens-healthineers.com
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/dorincomaniciu
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Dorin Comaniciu serves as Senior Vice President for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Siemens Healthineers. His scientific contributions to computational imaging and machine intelligence have translated to multiple clinical products focused on improving the quality of care, specifically in the fields of diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, and precision medicine.
An elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, and the Romanian Academy. Comaniciu is a Top Innovator of Siemens and a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society, and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, among other scientific organizations.
He has received the 2004 Siemens Inventor of the Year Award and the 2010 IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize for 'fundamental contributions to computer vision'. Recent recognition of his work includes an honorary doctorate from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Here are a couple of highlights of the translational innovation of Dr. Comaniciu and team:
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AI Abdomen automatically recognizes and labels 17 anatomical views and calculates 12 key measurements in milliseconds. Industry first AI solution that ensures consistency with standardized ultrasound imaging and saves the needless strain and pain.
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AI powers ACUSON Origin, a revolutionary echocardiography system that provides numerous automated measurements for 2D Heart, 4D Heart on both 3D TTE and TEE aquisitions, and workflow enhancements such as instant view recognition. ACUSON Origin has received the Vizient Innovation Technology Designation Award 2025 for its AI technology.
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Intelligent CT Emergency Imaging with myExam Companion has received the R&D 100 Award 2022. AI helps radiologists prioritize brain hemorrhage cases, depict skull fractures and hematomas, speeding up care for emergency patients.
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Deep Resolve Boost, an AI-powered raw data-to-image reconstruction technology that enables accelerated image acquisition with high signal-to-noise scans. It has won the EuroMinnies 2023 for the Best New Radiology Software. MRI scans can be much faster, boosting workflow efficiency, while improving patient comfort. Youtube video highlighting the speed and image quality of Deep Resove Boost.
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Organs-at-risk contouring for Radiation Therapy automatically contours 200+ organs and anatomies at risk from CT images, during radiation therapy planning. It has received the 2021 R&D 100 Award.
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CT Pneumonia Analysis COVID-19, a research software deployed at 485 sites in 50+ countries that automatically quantifies abnormal CT patterns commonly present in COVID-19 disease, namely ground glass opacities and consolidations. Developed in collaboration with multiple frontline hospitals.
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A new family of AI-powered applications: AI-Rad Companion Chest CT, Chest X-Ray, and Prostate MR. AI-Rad Companion Chest CT has received the 2020 R&D 100 Award and 2020 Market Disruptor Gold Award.
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First patient positioning system powered by artificial intelligence. A 3D camera captures the patient's shape, positioniong and height in 3D, providing correct isocenter position, right dose modulation, and consistent CT images. This innovation has received the 2020 R&D 100 Award.
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Compressed Sensing Cardiac Cine, a software that enables diagnostic MRI of patients with arrhythmia or of those with respiratory problems. The technology has won the 2014 Challenge on Sub-Nyquist Reconstruction of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and has received the 2017 R&D 100 Award. It allows MR imaging up to ten times faster without compromising image quality.
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eSie Valves, a 3D Transesophageal Echo application for heart valve assessment, was named a top high-technology product by the 2015 R&D 100 Awards. The automated valve modeling fuels comprehensive understanding of mitral and aortic valve anatomy and function within seconds for increased confidence and decreased procedure time.
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syngo.CT Bone Reading application for rib and spine assessment speeds up the reading process in multiple trauma cases with automated rib and spine labeling. It received the 2014 R&D 100 Award.
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The innovations on automated 3D analysis of left ventricle and quantification of 3D color flow Doppler were nominated for the 2011 Young Investigator's Award of the American College of Cardiology and American Society of Echocardiography.
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The aortic valve implantation technology received the 2010 Innovation Award of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. The next generation of this technology powers the syngo TrueFusion application that adds the relevant anatoimical and functional information from True Volume TEE to live fluoroscopy.
Comaniciu is listed on Wikipedia's list of prolific inventors with more than 550 granted patents (344 US and 237 international) in the areas of machine intelligence, medical imaging and computer vision. He has co-authored 350 peer-reviewed publications, including best papers in CVPR and MICCAI, co-wrote the book Marginal Space Learning for Medical Image Analysis, co-edited Artificial Intelligence for Computational Modeling of the Heart, and has given a multitude of keynote talks. His publications have 66,000 citations with an H-index of 107 according to Google Scholar.
During his early work in computer vision he introduced a popular family of robust methods for image analysis and tracking based on the iterative procedure Mean Shift.
A graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Comaniciu received a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University and a doctorate in electronics and telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
Dorin is advocate for technology innovation that enhances and saves lives. He supports the Annual Prize for the best STEM Olympiad results at his former high school Radu Negru in Romania.
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