Alexandre Falcão received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (1988) from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), PE, Brazil. He has worked in image processing and analysis since 1991. In 1993, he received a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil. During 1994-1996, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, on interactive image segmentation for his doctorate. He got his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 1996. In 1997, he developed video quality assessing methods for TV Globo, RJ, Brazil. He has been Professor at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, since 1998 and has published over 100 works on topics involving image processing and analysis, volume visualization, content-based image retrieval, mathematical morphology, pattern recognition, and medical imaging applications, being the live-wire segmentation and the image foresting transform two of his main contributions. (personal site)

Roberto M. Cesar Jr. was born in 1969. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science (Universidade Estadual Paulista), a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Universidade de Campinas) and a PhD in Computational Physics at the Institute of Physics, USP, including a period with the Departement de Physique of the Université Catholique de Louvain. He held a post-doctoral position at the CVRG - São Carlos in 1997 and a Sabbatical stay in the Departement TSI - Signal-Images of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris in 2001. He is currently full professor at the Department of Computer Science of IME-USP. His main research interests include Computational Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Data Analysis, Biological Vision, Analysis of Neural Images, among others. (personal site)

Prof. Alexandru C. Telea has obtained his PhD in 2000 in data visualization and software architectures at the University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has worked as assistant professor in visualization and computer graphics at the same university until 2007, when he has been appointed professor in software visualization at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His interests cover data, information, and software visualization, and static source code analysis and C/C++ reverse engineering. He has published over 130 papers in international peer-reviewed venues and one textbook in data visualization. He served as co-chair of IEEE EuroVis 2008, IEEE Vissoft 2007, ACM Softvis 2007 and general chair of ACM Softvis 2009. He is recognized as one of the main experts in the field of software visualization. His research has a strongly applied flavor, and he has co-developed several innovative tools and techniques for software visualization in the industry. He is a member of the ACM. (personal site)

Jayaram K. Udupa, PhD, has 34 years of experience in developing the basic theory, algorithms, and large software systems for image processing, 3D visualization, and image analysis, and in utilizing these in over 15 medical application areas. He has made several seminal contributions to imaging science: (1) Chief architect of the very first medical 3D imaging and visualization software, released in 1982, distributed with source code to 100s of sites. (2) Contributions to the understanding of geometry and topology of digital surfaces. (3) Introduction of new ways of thinking and approaches to image segmentation (live wire, fuzzy connectedness, hybrid methods). (4) Ground breaking first papers/efforts authored/co-authored in several specialty areas in medical imaging science and applications (3D interpolation, 3D segmentation, 3D registration, 3D visualization, 3D skeletonization, surgery simulation, orthopedic applications, neuro applications, 3D technology transfer to industry in 1980-81, co-directed the first 3D imaging conference in 1988, and contributed significantly to the growth of the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium over 25 years which is now one of the most important conferences in medical imaging science). His experience spans the entire period of existence of the area of medical image processing, visualization, analysis, and applications. He has published over 150 journal papers, 150 full conference papers, two books, about 25 book chapters, given over 170 invited talks worldwide, and trained nearly 50 Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows. He is a Professor of Radiological Sciences and the Chief of the Medical Image Processing Group at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. (personal site)

Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira received the BSc in computer science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1985, and the PhD degree in electronic engineering from the University of Wales, Bangor, in 1990. She is currently a Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, in 2000/2001. She has been conducting research on Data Visualization since 1995, when she introduced this research topic into the just created Computer Graphics Group at ICMC. She and her group have addressed research topics in scientific visualization, particularly in 3D model reconstruction and rendering and web-based visualization. More recently, her interest shifted to multidimensional data visualization and visual data mining in general, and text mining and visualization and visualization of temporal data in particular. The latter topics are growing more and more relevant as our capability to gather and store data evolve at amazing rates, while our capability of analyzing such data and obtain useful information from them remains limited. She is a member of the ACM and of the Brazilian Computer Society, and is currently the chief editor of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. (personal site)

Agma J. M. Traina received the Ph.D. in Computational Physics in 1991 from University of Sao Paulo - Brazil. From 1998 to 2000 she spent a sabbatical period with the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University - USA, working with multimedia databases and information visualization. She is currently a Full Professor with the Computer Science Department at University of São Paulo at São Carlos. Her research interests include image databases, image mining, visual data mining, content-based image retrieval (CBIR),indexing methods for multidimensional data, information visualization and image processing for medical applications. She has supervised 29 graduate students in these fields. (personal site)

Rosane Minghim is currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department from ICMC (the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science) ? University of São Paulo, São Carlos/SP, Brazil. She has been conducting research on Data Visualization since 1991, when she started her PhD programme at University of East Anglia, UK. At first she and her group addressed research topics in scientific visualization and sonification, particularly in level surfaces and 3D model reconstruction and rendering, as well as applications. More recently, she added (and focused) her interest in multidimensional data visualization and visual data mining with applications in text, image, time series and web results visualizations. She currently performs research in combining scientific and information visualization techniques to support visualization of large volumetric data sets in general, and in the medical field in particular, visualization of social networks and other multidimensional visualization issues. (personal site)