Dr. Thomas Wittenberg studied Computer Science at the Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, USA, and the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He received his Diploma degree in Informatics in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, he worked as software developer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in the department for Electronic Systems. From 1993 until 1999 he worked as scientific researcher in the department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology at the Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT) clinic of the University Erlangen, Germany. 1998 he became scientific senior assistant and technical head of the voice research laboratory. In 1998 he received a PhD in Engineering from the chair of Technical Electronics with a thesis on "Knowledge-Based Semi-Automatic Motion Analysis of Vocal Fold Vibrations Based on Digital High-Speed Camera Recordings". Since 1999 Dr. Wittenberg has been heading the group "Medical Image Processing" at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. He is also external lecturer at the chair of Pattern Recognition at the Erlangen University. Since 2003 Dr. Wittenberg has been heading the subproject "3-D-Acquisition of Complex Cavities Using Flexible Endoscopes" as part the "Center of Excellence" 603 (Sonderforschungsbereich) "Model-Based Analysis and Visualisation of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data" and is member of the Graduate Research Center "3-D Image Analysis and Synthesis" since 2001. His scientific research activities are medical image processing applications with focus on microscopy and endoscopy, texture analysis, image segmentation, and motion analysis. He has edited and co-edited several proceeding volumes, is author and co-author of over 75 publications in scientific journals and proceeding volumes, reviewer for JASA and several international workshops in medical image processing. He is member of the IEEE, DGEBV, EFMI and GMDS. In the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) , Dr. Wittenberg is currently co-chairman of the working group on Medical Image Processing.