Dorin Comaniciu

Dorin Comaniciu
Born1964 (age 61–62)
Făgăraș, Romania
AwardsLonguet-Higgins Prize (2010), IEEE Fellow (2012), ACM Fellow (2017), Elected to National Academy of Medicine (2019), Honorary Member Romanian Academy (2023), Elected to National Academy of Engineering (2025)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine Intelligence, Diagnostic Imaging, Image-Guided Therapy, Computer Vision
WorkplacesSiemens, Siemens Healthineers
Websitecomaniciu.net

Dorin Comaniciu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American computer scientist. He is Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Siemens Healthineers.

Research

Comaniciu is known for his work in computer vision,[1][2] medical imaging[3] and machine learning.[4][5] His academic publications have 69,000 citations with an H-index of 112.[6] As of 2026, he holds 359 US patents[7] and 600 international patent applications.[8] He joined Siemens in 1999 as a senior research scientist with a focus on computer vision applications for automotive systems.[9] Since 2004, he has served in various research and leadership positions, directing technology development in diagnostic imaging[10][11] and image-guided therapy[12]

Most recently, his team's research has focused on artificial intelligence,[13][14][15] hyper-realistic visualization,[16] and precision medicine.[17]

Together with his team and clinical collaborators, he has helped pioneer numerous clinical products, including efficient bone reading,[18] vascular analysis, cardiac function assessment, trans-esophageal 3D heart valve assessment,[19] guidance for aortic valve implantation,[20] enhanced stent visualization, compressed sensing for Magnetic Resonance,[21] and automatic patient positioning for Computed Tomography.

Awards and honors

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Best Paper Award 2000 (together with Visvanathan Ramesh and Peter Meer)
  • IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize 2010, for 'Fundamental contributions in Computer Vision'
  • IEEE Fellow 2012, for contributions to medical image analysis and computer vision
  • American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow 2013, for technical contributions to medical imaging using machine learning, and for leadership in imaging technology[22]
  • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society Fellow 2015, for contributions to the theory and practice of medical imaging and image-guided interventions[23]
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow 2017, for contributions to machine intelligence, diagnostic imaging, image-guided interventions, and computer vision[24]
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine 2019[25]
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 2022[26]
  • Honorary Member, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania 2023[27]
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering 2025[28]

References

  1. ↑ Comaniciu, D.; Meer, P. (2002). "Mean shift: A robust approach toward feature space analysis". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 24 (5): 603–619. Bibcode:2002ITPAM..24..603C. doi:10.1109/34.1000236.
  2. ↑ Comaniciu, D.; Ramesh, V.; Meer, P. (2003). "Kernel-based object tracking". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 25 (5): 564–577. Bibcode:2003ITPAM..25..564C. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1195991.
  3. ↑ Comaniciu, D.; Engel, K.; Georgescu, B.; Mansi, T. (2016). "Shaping the future through innovations: From medical imaging to precision medicine". Medical Image Analysis. 33: 19–26. arXiv:1605.02029. doi:10.1016/j.media.2016.06.016. PMID 27349829.
  4. ↑ Marginal Space Learning for Medical Image Analysis. Springer. 2014.
  5. ↑ Ghesu, Florin C.; Krubasik, Edward; Georgescu, Bogdan; Singh, Vivek; Zheng, Yefeng; Hornegger, Joachim; Comaniciu, Dorin (2016). "Marginal Space Deep Learning: Efficient Architecture for Volumetric Image Parsing". IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 35 (5): 1217–1228. Bibcode:2016ITMI...35.1217G. doi:10.1109/TMI.2016.2538802. ISSN 0278-0062. PMID 27046846.
  6. ↑ Publications according to Google Scholar
  7. ↑ "Patent Public Search | USPTO". ppubs.uspto.gov. Retrieved 2026-05-30.
  8. ↑ Worldwide Patents of Dorin Comaniciu
  9. ↑ Zhu, Ying; Comaniciu, Dorin; Pellkofer, Martin; Koehler, Thorsten (2006). "Reliable Detection of Overtaking Vehicles Using Robust Information Fusion". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 7 (4): 401–414. Bibcode:2006ITITr...7..401Z. doi:10.1109/TITS.2006.883936. ISSN 1524-9050.
  10. ↑ Princeton inventor refines computer vision technology for doctors, wins recognition for work, NJ.COM, 2011
  11. ↑ Siemens Showcases a New Level of Echocardiography, DOTmed, 2006
  12. ↑ Getting to the Heart of Visualization, R&D Magazine, 2015
  13. ↑ Ghesu, Florin C.; Georgescu, Bogdan; Mansi, Tommaso; Neumann, Dominik; Hornegger, Joachim; Comaniciu, Dorin (2016). "An Artificial Agent for Anatomical Landmark Detection in Medical Images". Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 9902. pp. 229–237. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46726-9_27. ISBN 978-3-319-46725-2.
  14. ↑ Liao, Rui; Miao, Shun; Pierre de Tournemire; Grbic, Sasa; Kamen, Ali; Mansi, Tommaso; Comaniciu, Dorin (2016). "An Artificial Agent for Robust Image Registration". arXiv:1611.10336 [cs.CV].
  15. ↑ Ghesu, Florin-Cristian; Georgescu, Bogdan; Zheng, Yefeng; Grbic, Sasa; Maier, Andreas; Hornegger, Joachim; Comaniciu, Dorin (2019). "Multi-Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time 3D-Landmark Detection in CT Scans". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 41 (1): 176–189. Bibcode:2019ITPAM..41..176G. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2782687. ISSN 0162-8828. PMID 29990011.
  16. ↑ Medical Imaging Goes to the Movies, Undark 2016
  17. ↑ Kayvanpour, Elham; Mansi, Tommaso; Sedaghat-Hamedani, Farbod; Amr, Ali; Neumann, Dominik; Georgescu, Bogdan; Seegerer, Philipp; Kamen, Ali; Haas, Jan (2015-07-31). "Towards Personalized Cardiology: Multi-Scale Modeling of the Failing Heart". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0134869. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1034869K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134869. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4521877. PMID 26230546.
  18. ↑ Bone Reading, British Institute of Radiology, 2017
  19. ↑ Ionasec, Razvan Ioan; Voigt, Ingmar; Georgescu, Bogdan; Yang Wang; Houle, Helene; Vega-Higuera, Fernando; Navab, Nassir; Comaniciu, Dorin (2010). "Patient-Specific Modeling and Quantification of the Aortic and Mitral Valves From 4-D Cardiac CT and TEE". IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 29 (9): 1636–1651. Bibcode:2010ITMI...29.1636I. doi:10.1109/TMI.2010.2048756. ISSN 0278-0062. PMID 20442044.
  20. ↑ Siemens Wins 2010 Techno-College Innovation Award, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  21. ↑ Compressed Sensing, Imaging Technology News, 2017
  22. ↑ AIMBE citation
  23. ↑ title MICCAI Fellows
  24. ↑ ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13
  25. ↑ Lewis, Talia (21 October 2019), "National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members/", National Academy of Medicine, retrieved 6 January 2020
  26. ↑ "Honorary Doctorate Degree awarded to Dr. Dorin Comaniciu".
  27. ↑ "Dorin COMANICIU -inteligență artificială în medicină".
  28. ↑ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 128 Members and 22 International Members". NAE Website. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
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