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, medical imaging and machine learning. His academic publications have 69,000 citations with an H-index of 112.Publications according to Google Scholar As of 2026, he holds 359 US patents and 600 international patent applications.Worldwide Patents of Dorin Comaniciu He joined Siemens in 1999 as a senior research scientist with a focus on computer vision applications for automotive systems. Since 2004, he has served in various research and leadership positions, directing technology development in diagnostic imagingPrinceton inventor refines computer vision technology for doctors, wins recognition for work, NJ.COM, 2011Siemens Showcases a New Level of Echocardiography, DOTmed, 2006 and image-guided therapyGetting to the Heart of Visualization, R&D Magazine, 2015
Most recently, his team's research has focused on artificial intelligence, hyper-realistic visualization,Medical Imaging Goes to the Movies, Undark 2016 and precision medicine.
Together with his team and clinical collaborators, he has helped pioneer numerous clinical products, including efficient bone reading,Bone Reading, British Institute of Radiology, 2017 vascular analysis, cardiac function assessment, trans-esophageal 3D heart valve assessment, guidance for aortic valve implantation,Siemens Wins 2010 Techno-College Innovation Award, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery enhanced stent visualization, compressed sensing for Magnetic Resonance,Compressed Sensing, Imaging Technology News, 2017 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 technologyAIMBE citation Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society Fellow 2015, for contributions to the theory and practice of medical imaging and image-guided interventionstitle MICCAI Fellows Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow 2017, for contributions to machine intelligence, diagnostic imaging, image-guided interventions, and computer vision Member of the National Academy of Medicine 2019 Honorary Doctorate, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 2022 Honorary Member, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania 2023 Member of the National Academy of Engineering 2025
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