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Guido Gerig

Guido Gerig is a computer science professor whose image-analysis methods support clinical imaging studies, and as of October 2026 he is Professor Emeritus at NYU Tandon. He became an assistant professor at ETH Zurich in 1993, and in 1998 he became Taylor Grandy Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, where student teams he led first developed ITK-SNAP, a free segmentation tool. At the University of Utah he established the Utah Center for Neuroimage Analysis, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering elected him a Fellow in 2010. From 2016 to 2021 he chaired NYU Tandon's computer science and engineering department, and the MICCAI Society gave him its Enduring Impact Award in 2023. In 2023 he led a paper in which a generative model turned synthetic masks into realistic microscopy images for training a segmentation model.

Works
440
Citations
37,863
h-index
88

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1993–1998

    An assistant professorship at ETH

    He becomes an assistant professor at ETH Zurich in 1993, a post he holds until 1998.

  2. 1998–2007

    Neuroimage labs at UNC

    He becomes Taylor Grandy Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998, and he launches the UNC Neuro Image Research and Analysis Laboratories. There, student teams he leads develop ITK-SNAP, a free tool for segmenting structures in 3D and 4D biomedical images.

  3. 2007–2015

    The Utah Center for Neuroimage Analysis

    He becomes USTAR Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah in 2007. There he establishes the Utah Center for Neuroimage Analysis.

  4. 2010

    An AIMBE fellowship

    The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering elects him a Fellow in 2010. Its Fellows are nominated by peers and represent the top 2% of the medical and biological engineering community.

  5. 2016–2021

    Department chair at NYU Tandon

    He chairs the computer science and engineering department at NYU Tandon from 2016 to 2021.

  6. 2019–2023

    IEEE Fellow and MICCAI award

    He is named an IEEE Fellow in the class of 2019. In 2023 the MICCAI Society gives him its Enduring Impact Award, and his research supports clinical imaging studies with image analysis methods for segmentation, registration, atlas building and shape analysis.

  7. 2023

    Synthetic data for microscopy

    In 2023 he leads a paper on microscopy image segmentation. A generative model turns synthetic masks into realistic microscopy images, which form a dataset for training a segmentation model.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor Emeritus at NYU Tandon

    He is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon.

Sources and credits

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  1. Guido Gerig | NYU Tandon School of Engineering engineering.nyu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. ITK-SNAP Home itksnap.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Guido Gerig Elected Fellow of AIMBE – Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute sci.utah.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Guido Gerig honored with the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award | NYU Tandon School of Engineering engineering.nyu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Microscopy image segmentation via point and shape regularized data synthesis | NYU Tandon School of Engineering engineering.nyu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. [2308.09835] Microscopy Image Segmentation via Point and Shape Regularized Data Synthesis arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.