Molecular Characterization of Prostate Cancer with Associated Gleason Score using Mass Spectrometry Imaging
DCMQI: An Open Source Library for Standardized Communication of Quantitative Image Analysis Results using DICOM
Patient-Specific Skeletal Muscle Fiber Modeling from Structure Tensor Field of Clinical CT Images
Surgical Data Science: Enabling Next-generation Surgery
Application of the 3D Slicer Chest Imaging Platform Segmentation Algorithm for Large Lung Nodule Delineation
In vivo Exploration of the Connectivity between the Subthalamic Nucleus and the Globus Pallidus in the Human Brain using Multi-F

Surgical Planning Laboratory

The Surgical Planning Laboratory is a research laboratory in the Department of Radiology of Brigham and Women's Hospital. The Core Mission of the SPL is the extraction of medically relevant information from diagnostic imaging data and to introduce concepts of computation and image analysis to new field of biomedical research. The lab collaborates with groups within Brigham and Women's Hospital, with other researchers at the Harvard Medical School, with local universities such as Harvard and MIT, and with clinicians, researchers, and engineers throughout the world.

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Ron Kikinis, MD

B. Leonard Holman Professor, Harvard Medical School
Vice-Chair for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Founding Director, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Ron Kikinis received his MD degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1982. He trained as a resident in radiology at the University...

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Dr. Ron Kikinis was a Keynote Speaker at the 13th Hamlyn Symposium On Medical Robotics

April 22, 2021

Translation of IGT Technologies to Low and Middle Income Countries

Tribute to Bill Lorensen

October 28, 2020

Ron Kikinis Appointed HMS B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology

August 14, 2020

Ron Kikinis, MD, vice chair of Biomedical Informatics Research and founding director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory in the Department of Radiology, was named the second B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in honor of his outstanding contributions to the field.

This appointment honors the legacy and memory of nuclear medicine pioneer B. Leonard Holman, MD, former chair of Radiology at the Brigham and the Philip Cook Professor of Radiology at HMS, who died in 1998. Kikinis’ appointment follows that of his mentor and the position’s first...

A Prestigious Appointment at Harvard

May 28, 2020

Change at Fraunhofer MEVIS: Ron Kikinis assumes professorship in the USA

Prof. Ron Kikinis, the former director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in Bremen, has accepted a renowned appointment at Harvard Medical School in the United States. Since March 1, 2020, Prof. Horst Hahn has been the sole director of the Institute – for the prior six years, both had acted in dual leadership roles. Kikinis has assumed the B. Leonard Holman Endowed Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. This endowed chair is one of the highest academic distinctions...

Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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