Dr. Rafael Wiemker

Rafael Wiemker has received an MS in Astronomy for tomographic reconstruction of binary star systems from the Center of High Angular Resolution Astronomy at Georgia State University Atlanta in 1992. He completed his PhD in 1997 at the university of Hamburg, Germany, on problems of spectral classification of aerial and satellite images. Since 1998 RW is with the Philips Research Lab Hamburg, as a senior scientist working on medical imaging of digital radiography and high resolution computer tomography, mainly on topics of computer aided detection and quantification in thoracic CT.