Researcher

Bram van Ginneken

Van Ginneken earned his doctorate on computer-aided diagnosis in chest radiography in 2001. His tuberculosis-detection research informed the CAD4TB medical software. He moved to Radboud in 2010, established the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group and became a full professor in 2012. His work centers on automated interpretation of medical images. He founded Thirona in 2014 and Plain Medical in 2024. He also created grand-challenge.org to evaluate medical-image analysis methods.

Now at
Radboud University Nijmegen and Plain Medical
Works
783
Citations
75,067
h-index
112

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 2001

    Chest-radiography research

    Van Ginneken earned his doctorate on computer-aided diagnosis in chest radiography in 2001. His tuberculosis-detection research informed the CAD4TB medical software.

  2. 2010–2012

    Diagnostic Image Analysis Group

    He moved to Radboud in 2010, established the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group and became a full professor in 2012. His work centers on automated interpretation of medical images.

  3. 2014–2024

    Applied software and evaluation

    He founded Thirona in 2014 and Plain Medical in 2024. He also created grand-challenge.org to evaluate medical-image analysis methods.

Sources and credits

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  1. Prof. dr. Bram van Ginneken - Radboudumc radboudumc.nl. Checked 13 October 2026.