User:Wieslaw L. Nowinski

Prof. Wieslaw L. Nowinski, DSc, PhD - scientist, innovator, entrepreneur, pioneer, and visionary; creator of human brain atlases

Dr. Nowinski is principal scientist and director of the Biomedical Imaging Lab, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. His research includes brain atlases, stroke, deep brain stimulation, brain quantification, neuroinformatics, medical image processing, virtual reality, computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment, and future directions in computer-aided radiology and surgery. He has 515 publications, filed 50 patent applications (30 already granted, 14 in US), and developed with his team 26 brain atlas products used worldwide in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, neurology, brain mapping, and neuroeducation. These atlases have been commercially licensed to 16 companies. Three high-tech companies have been spun off from his lab. Prof. Nowinski has proposed a number of new concepts, including atlas-assisted processing of medical images (US patent), do-it-yourself neurosurgery (published), helical stereotaxy (US patent), operating room of the future (published), probabilistic functional atlas (US patent), probabilistic stroke atlas (patent pending), and atlas-assisted stroke image processing (US patent). He has introduced several new concepts to atlas-assisted stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. The electronic brain atlases created by him have been incorporated in about 1,200 neurosurgical workstations and distributed worldwide by leading companies including Medtronic (USA), BrainLab (Germany) and Elekta (Sweden). Ten brain atlases have been distributed by a leading medical publisher Thieme, New York-Stuttgart to about 7,000 clinicians and medical institutions. The iPad version of the atlas is being introduced to medical schools. Dr. Nowinski has been conferred with 38 awards and honours; 24 awards are from leading medical societies, including Pioneer in Medicine in 2013 from Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics (http://worldbrainmapping.org/awardrecipients), Magna cum Laude (radiological Oscar) from Radiological Society of North America in 2009 and 2004; Magna cum Laude from European Congress of Radiology in 2000; Summa cum Laude in 2012, 2008 and 1997, and Magna cum Laude in 2009 and 2005 from American Society of Neuroradiology. He is finalist of Asian Innovation Award 2010 for stroke organized by The Wall Street Journal and Credit Swiss. Dr. Nowinski has received Knight’s Cross of Merit from President of Republic of Poland in 2005. He has been named The Outstanding Pole (in the world) in 2012. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and on The Discovery Channel (twice), BBC (Tomorrow’s World), TV Polonia, and Channel News Asia, among others. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who is Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and Who’s Who in Asia.