Ewert Bengtsson
Professor,Center for Image Analysis
Uppsala University
Sweden
Biography
Ewert Bengtsson received his MSc and PhD in engineering physics from Uppsala University in 1974 and 1977 respectively. He continued the work on cell image analysis from his thesis first as a researcher at Uppsala University and then in spin off companies from 1983 through 1988. Then he returned to Uppsala University as an adjunct professor and took the initiative of establishing the Centre for image analysis where he 1995-2015 was active as a full chaired professor. He is currently formally retired but still active in research. His research interests include all kinds of biomedical image analysis but his main focus is on cancer detection and grading. He has published about 200 papers in the field and supervised more than 30 PhD students. He has served as Dean of mathematics and computer science, as Vice-rektor for information technology for Uppsala University and as Head of research at the IT-department. He is member of two academies, the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala and the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences in Sweden and he is a Fellow of IEEE
Research Interest
Digital Pathology