Title : "Science and Engineering for Sustainable World"

Dr. Seo earned a BS (Seoul National University), a PhD (Texas A&M University), an Honorary Doctor of Economics (Pukyong National University), and an Honorary Doctor of Engineering (Chonnam National University). Currently he is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) and a Chair Professor of Sunchon National University. He is also the Chairman of the Personal Space Service Association, and the e-Trade Facilitation Committee of Korea International Trade Association.

Past positions:

• Minister of the ROK(Republic of Korea) Ministry of Science & Technology (ΡùÊÐüâúÝ» íþί)
• Vice-Minister of the ROK(Republic of Korea) Ministry of Science & Technology (ΡùÊÐüâúÝ» ó­Î¯)
• President of the Agency for Defense Development(ADD), the Korea Institute of Science & Technology(KIST), and the IEEK.
• Senior Executive Vice-President of the Korea Telecom(KT).
• President and Vice-Chairman of the SK Telecom
• Chairman of the Commission for Radio Communications Development, the Commission for IMT-2000
Development and the Korea Accreditation Board.
• Member of the IEEE Board of Directors (Region 10 Director)
• Professor of the ROK Air Force Academy, the Seoul National University, the Korea University and the Joongang University.
• Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Massey University, New Zealand
• Member of the International Board of the Texas A&M University
• Member of the Research Advisory Board of the University of Texas at Dallas.

Honors and decoration:

He is a Life Member of the Eta Kapa Nu Honor Society, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IET, an Honorary Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, President Emeritus of the Institute of Electronics Engineering of Korea(IEEK), and Professor Emeritus of the ROK Air Force Academy.

• Ministry of National Defense (MND) Award for Distinguished Service
• ADD Medal for Distinguished R&D Achievement
• MND Bounty for Distinguished R&D Achievement
• Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit(the highest industrial decoration)
• IEEE Third Millennium Medal
• 1996 Texas A&M Outstanding International Alumnus Award
• 2001 Grand Award of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea
• 2011 Honorary Member of the Omega Alpha Association (International Honor Society for Systems Engineering)

Title : "Digital Atlases of Human Anatomy and Their Applications to Computer Assisted Diagnosis"

Yen-Wei Chen received the B.E. degree in 1985 from Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, the M.E. degree in 1987, and the D.E. degree in 1990, both from Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan. He was a research fellow with the Institute of Laser Technology, Osaka, from 1991 to 1994,. From Oct. 1994 to Mar. 2004, he was an associate Professor and a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a professor and vice dean with the college of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. He was a visiting professor with the Oxford University, Oxford, UK in 2003 and a visiting professor with Pennsylvania State University, USA in 2010.
His research interests include medical image analysis, pattern recognition and computational intelligence. He has published more than 300 research papers in a number of leading journals and leading conferences including IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Neurocomputing and MICCAI, ICPR, ICIP. He has received many distinguished awards including Watanabe Mitsuhiko Award, Outstanding Chinese Oversea Scholar Fund of Chinese Academy of Science.
Dr. Chen is associate Editors of International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG), International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), and Journal of Convergence Information Technology (JCIT), and a member of Editorial Board for a number of academic journals. He also served as a guest editor of an issue/volume of 4 international journals including Information, International Journal of Computation Intelligence and Applications. He was invited to serve as a general chair or a program chair of several international conference including IIHMSP2009, SEDM2010 and ICCIT2011.

Summary

Atlas of human anatomy is an important teaching tool in the in the medical community. In the recent years, digital atlases of human anatomy have become popular and hot topics in medical image analysis research field. In Japan, we started a new national project called computational anatomy which is focused on construction of digital atlases of human anatomy and their applications to computer assisted diagnosis. The basic idea of the digital atlas is to capture the organ variability of its position, shape and voxel intensity (texture) from a training set (either different individuals (inter-patient variability) or the same individual (intra-patient variability)). In this speech, I will talk about current progress and futures of computational anatomy and its application to computer assisted diagnosis.