Biography | Publications

Luis Ibáñez received a B.S. in Physics from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia) in 1989 and a M.S. in Optics from the same university in 1994. He received a D.E.A and Ph.D. degrees from the Universite de Rennes I (Rennes, France) in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

During his Ph.D., Luis Ibáñez was member of the LATIM laboratory at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne (Brest, France) and was interested in the segmentation of bone joint structures of the limbs for the purpose of studying the relationship between morphology and functionality. He also participated in a project for developing collaborative virtual environments for medical applications.
In 1999, Luis Ibáñez joined the Division of Neurosurgery of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and participated as a member of the MIDAG and CADDLab groups. His work at UNC was related to the development of algorithms for 2 and 3D registration applied to image guided surgery. He also participated as developer of the INSIGHT Registration and Segmentation Toolkit sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.

Luis Ibáñez joined Kitware, Inc. in February 2002 where his is one of the main developers of the Insight Toolkit (ITK) coordinating its maintenance with other developers and the user community; he is also one of the main developers of the Image Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) and participated in crafting the operational principles of the Insight Journal.  Luis Ibáñez is a strong supporter of Open Access, and the verification of reproducibility in scientific publications and is a regular speaker in ITK training courses, and in events disseminating the principles of Open Source.  His current interests include: medical image processing and analysis, image registration, shape description, morphogenesis modeling and application of genomics paradigms for computation.
He is member of the following societies

  • IEEE-EMBS and IEEE-Computer Societies since 1995.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2003.
  • MICCAI Society since 2005

Papers in Refereed Journals
K.Martin, L.Ibáñez, L.Avila, S.Barré and J.H.Kaspersen "Integrating segmentation methods from the Insight Toolkit into a visualization application", Medical Image Analysis Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 6, December 2005. pp.579-593

D.Shelton, G.Stetten, S.Aylward, L.Ibáñez, A.Cois and Ch.Stewart " Teaching medical image analysis with the Insight Toolkit", Medical Image Analysis Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 6, December 2005. pp.605-611

L.Ibáñez, C.Hamitouche, C.Roux "A Vectorial Algorithm for Discrete Line Tracing in Generalized N-Dimensional Grids", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 7, No. 2, April-June 2001.

Luis Ibáñez, Elizabeth Bullitt, Alan Liu, Stephen Pizer "Registration of Tubular Objects Evaluation of Performance and Robustness of a new Algorithm", Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, December 2001.

P. Chandra, L. Ibáñez, "ImageIO: Design of an Extensible Image Input/Output Library", ACM Crossroads Students Magazine, 2001.


Papers at Refereed Conferences

L. Ibáñez, C. Hamitouche, C. Roux, "Moment-based operator for sub-voxel surface extraction in medical imaging", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996, pp 277-280.

L. Ibáñez, C. Hamitouche, C. Roux "Determination of Discrete Sampling Grids with Optimal Topological and Spectral Properties", Proc 6th International Workshop in Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery DGCI'96, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1176, Springer Verlag, pp. 181-192. Lyon, France 1996.

L. Ibáñez, C. Hamitouche, C. Roux "Ray Tracing and 3D object Representation in the BCC and FCC Grids", Proc 7th International Workshop in Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery DGCI'97, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1347, Springer Verlag, pp. 235-241. Montpellier, France 1997.

L. Ibáñez, C. Hamitouche, C. Roux "Ray Casting in the BCC Grids Applied to 3D Medical Image Visualization", 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society October 29- November 1, 1998, Hong-Kong, pp 548-551.

L. Ibáñez, C. Hamitouche, C. Roux, "Structured Deformable Models Application of Meta-balls to 3D Medical Image Segmentation", World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, July 22-23, 2000, Chicago


Papers at Unrefereed Conferences

E. Bullitt, S. Aylward, L. Ibáñez, A. Liu, J. Capowski, S. Pizer, "Methods of vascular imaging: vascular trees from intracerebral vessels", Biomedical Imaging Symposium: Visualizing the Future of Biology and Medicine, NIH, June 1999.

L. Ibáñez, E. Bullitt, S. Pizer, S. Mukherji, K. Smith, "Image guided surgery applied to intravascular intervention", Annual Research Review, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 2000.

J. Seneschal, E. Bullitt, L. Ibáñez, S. Mukherji, K. Smith, 3D Image guided spine surgery", Annual Research Review, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 2000.