Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, PhD received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering: electronics (with honors) from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1986 and MSE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering: systems and bioelectrical sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, in 1990 and 1992, respectively. Since 1988, he has been with the Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA, where he is currently a Senior Scientist and the director of the Medical Image Analysis Lab. Since 1994, he has also been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, where he is currently a full Professor and the director of the Biomedical Engineering Lab. Prof. Soltanian-Zadeh is also affiliated with and has active research collaborations with the Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA and the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. His research interests include medical imaging, signal and image processing and analysis, pattern recognition, and neural networks. He has co-authored over 1000 papers in journals and conference records or as book chapters in these areas. Several of his presentations received honorable mention awards at the SPIE and IEEE conferences. He has delivered numerous invited lectures nationally and internationally. In addition to the SPIE where he is a fellow, he is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ISMRM, ISBME, and ISMVIP and has served on the scientific committees of several national and international conferences and review boards of over 60 scientific journals. Dr. Soltanian-Zadeh is an associate member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences and has served on the study sections of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), and international funding agencies.