(formatted
according to the specifications from VR, the Swedish Science Council)
1. Higher education qualifications: MSc in Eng. Physics (Civ.ing. i teknisk fysik) from Uppsala University in 1974
2. Doctoral degree: PhD in Physics from Uppsala University, 1977. Thesis: On the Design of
Systems for Computer Aided Analysis of Microscopic Images. Application to early
detection of cervical cancer. Supervisor: Kai Siegbahn, (Nobel Laureate 1981)
Assistant supervisors: Björn Stenkvist, Bengt Olsen
3. Postdoctoral position: Electrotechnical Laboratories, Tsukuba, Japan, 1983
4. Qualifications required for appointment as a docent: Docent in scientific computing, at
Uppsala University, 1980.
5. Current position: Professor emeritus (retired professor) of Computerized image analysis at
Uppsala university, since june 2015.
6. Previous positions and periods of appointment
a. Research assistant for image
analysis of cervical smears 1973 - 1978.
b. Scientific director of the Image
Analysis Lab. of Uppsala Univ. 1979 -1984.
c. Project leader for developing an
automated screening microscope 1983 - 1984
d. Head of development at IMTEC - Image
Technology AB 1984 - 1989.
e. Adjunct professor of digital image
processing at Uppsala Univ. 1988-1996
f. Chairman of the board and consultant
in image processing technology for Uppsala Bildbehandling AB, 1988-1999.
g. Director of the Centre for Image
Analysis 1988-1990, 1992-1996, 2005-2010
h. Vice rektor/rektorsråd i.e. senior
advisor to the vice chancellor of Uppsala University on Information Technology,
30% of full time 1998-2011
i.
Full
professor of Computerized image analysis at Uppsala Univ. 1996-2015
7. Interruption in research. Parental leave 3 months 1984.
8.
Supervision:
People awarded doctorates with
Bengtsson as main supervisor (26):
Dahlqvist Bengt, 1988, Nordin Bo, 1989, Orbert Curt, 1993, Pedersen Finn, 1994,
Thurfjell Lennart, 1994, Wester (Johansson) Tomas, 1994, Choi Heung-Kook, 1996, Jarkrans Torsten, 1996, Nyström Ingela, 1997, Ranefall Petter, 1998,
Frimmel Hans, 1999, Östlund Catherine, 1999, Lundqvist Roger, 2001,
Lindblad Joakim, 2003, Ammenberg Petra, 2003, Hult Roger, 2003,
Wählby Carolina 2003, Hast Anders,
2004, Wehrmann Felix, 2004,
Muhammed Hamed Hamid, 2005, Razifar Pascha, 2005, Åhlen Julia, 2005, Karlsson Patrick, 2008,
Gedda Magnus 2010, Niazi Khalid 2011, Malm Patrik 2014
With Bengtsson as assistant supervisor (9):
Vidholm Erik, 2008, Pinidiyaarachchi Amalka
2009, Allalou Amin 2011, Gavrilovic
Milan 2011, Malmberg Filip 2011, Kårsnäs Andreas 2014, Azar Jimmy 2014, Olsson
Pontus 2015, Linnér Elisabeth 2015.
Current PhD students under my assistant
supervision (7):
Wahlberg Fredrik, Lidayová Kristina, Ishaq Omer, Liu Fei, Ram Kaylan, Sadanandan Kecheril Sajith, Wilkinson Tomas.
9.
Other information of relevance
Distinctions
a. Dean of the Division of Mathematics
and Computer Science of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala Univ.
1996 – 1998.
b. Member of Royal Society of Sciences
at Uppsala since 2000
c. Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Sciences, IVA since 2006
d. Recipient of the Gustaf Adolf Gold
Medal from Uppsala University 2013
e. Fellow of IEEE 2015
Invited plenary presentations
Invited presentations about medical
image analysis, mainly microscopy to international conferences during the last
decade in: Korea, Australia, India, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Canada,
France, USA.
Entrepreneurial achievements
I was the main technical researcher
behind the development of a high performance computerized microscope with
applications in automated cervical cancer screening and chromosome analysis.
The project was run in an academic setting 1993-1983. Then a company, Imtec,
was established and I served as Head of development 1983-1989. The development
group consisted of up to 20 persons. A dedicated image analysis computer system
and a workstation for computer assisted radiology were also developed.
Based on this development team a
consulting company was formed with me as driving force. I was also active in
the formation of two other companies active in applied medical image analysis
Computer Wound Analysis Institute AB and Diascan AB. I have on several occasions been acting as an
independent consultant to international companies in Sweden, UK and US.
I initiated numerous university wide
reforms in the general IT field as vice-rector/rektorsråd for IT and head of
the virtual IT-faculty.
I was the initiator, main applicant
and head of the scientific reference group of the national research network
VISIT, funded by SSF 1996-2001 with a total of 48 MSEK.
Committees:
On the boards of three international
scientific journals
a) CMPB, Computerized Methods and
Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier
b) Machine Graphics and Vision, Polish
Academy of science
c) Journal of Multimedia Information
System, Korea Multimedia Society
Associate editor for CMPB 2012-2015
PhD dissertations:
Opponent on 12 occasions in Sweden,
Norway and Finland
Member of 22 PhD dissertation
committees
Expert evaluator:
Has served as expert evaluator
“sakkunnig” for about 20 lecturer and professor positions and around 10 docent
appointments
Scientific funding committees for
NUTEK – National Board of Technical
Development (Minimially Invasive Medical Techniques),
SSF –Swedish Foundation for
Strategic Research (Medical information technology)
VR – Swedish Science Council
(Medical Engineering, chairman for 3 years)
ERC – European Research Council
(Advanced Researcher Grants)
Program committees for international
conferences, for instance:
EUSIPCO 2007 - 15th European Signal Processing
Conference
NORSIG 2004 and NORSIG 2006 – Nordic
Signal processing Symposium
MDA 2006, MDA 2008 - Advances in
Mass data Analysis of Images and signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry
and Food Industry
BIOIMAGING 2016, 3rd
International Conference on Bioimaging, BIOSTEC 2016
ICPR 2006– International Conference
on Pattern Recognition
Finance chair for ICPR 2014
Conference co-chair for the Workshop
on Interaction in medical Image Analysis and Visualization at MICCAI 2007