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Pingkun Yan Dr. Pingkun Yan is a Senior Member Research Staff at Philips Research North America. Before he joined Philips, he was a Research Associate with the Computer Vision Lab at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, FL from June 2005 to December 2007. His research interests include Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and their applications to Biomedical Image Analysis and Image Guided Interventions. Dr. Yan received his B.Eng. degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China, in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS), in 2006. Dr. Yan received the MICCAI 2005 Student Award for the best presentation on image segmentation and analysis at the 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2005. He is a member of the Sigma Xi, a member of the IEEE, and a member of MICCAI Society. Dr. Yan served as program committee member of a series of international conferences. He is also a regular reviewer of a number of international journals and conferences.