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Brief Biosketch
James S. Duncan is the Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering, as
well as a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Electrical Engineering at Yale
University, New Haven, CT, USA. He trained in Electrical Engineering, receiving
the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1982. His
research and teaching efforts have been in the areas of computer vision, image
processing and medical imaging, with an emphasis in biomedical image analysis.
Currently, he is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Associate Chair of
Biomedical Engineering and the Vice-Chair for Bioimaging Sciences research in
Diagnostic Radiology. His specific research interests include the segmentation of
deformable structure from 3D image data, the tracking of non-rigid motion
deformation from spatiotemporal images and development of strategies for
image-guided intervention surgery. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed
articles in these areas and has been the principal investigator on a number of
peer-reviewed grants from both the National Institutes of Health and the National
Science Foundation over the past 25 years. From 1973-1983, he was a member of the
technical staff and Section Head at Hughes Aircraft Company, Electro- Optical and
Data Systems Group, El Segundo, California, and joined the Yale faculty in 1983.
Professor Duncan is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, is a Fellow of the
IEEE and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and
Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He was awarded the “MICCAI 2008 Significant
Researcher Award,” given for his “pioneering research on Statistical and
Deformable Model-Based Methods and their multi-organ-based applications.” He is
on the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and
Vision, is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical
Imaging and is one of the founding co-Editors-in-Chief of the journal
Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier). He was a Fulbright Research Scholar at
the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands during part of the
1993-94 academic year. In 1997, he chaired the 15th international meeting on
Information Processing in Medical Imaging and was the general chair for
the 2005 meeting on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted
Intervention (MICCAI). From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Duncan was a charter member
of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diagnostic Imaging Study Section,
serving as its Chair from 2001-2003.