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Received: 28 August 2017

Accepted: 3 July 2018

First Online: 20 July 2018

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: Yingkun Hou is an Associate Professor. He has a PhD degree of pattern recognition and intelligent system. He is from the School of Information Science and Technology, Taishan University, China. He has published more than 50 papers in the international journals and conference proceedings. His main research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, and medical image analysis.Dinggang Shen is a Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He is currently directing the Center for Image Analysis and Informatics, the Image Display, Enhancement, and Analysis (IDEA) Lab in the Department of Radiology, and also the medical image analysis core in the BRIC. He was a tenure-track assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvanian (UPenn) and a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Shen’s research interests include medical image analysis, computer vision, and pattern recognition. He has published more than 600 papers in the international journals and conference proceedings. He serves as an editorial board member for six international journals. He also serves in the Board of Directors, The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society.

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