Mike Klontzas

Assistant Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine University of Crete, Greece

Dr. Mike Klontzas is an Assistant Professor of Radiology and head of the Artificial Intelligence and Translational Imaging (ATI) Lab at the School of Medicine of the University of Crete. He has received multiple awards and scholarships for his work, including the Burkett fellowship from Imperial College, the Manassaki fellowship from the University of Crete, the 3rd prize for best PhD from Imperial College, reviewer awards from the Radiological Society of North America, and the Young Researcher’s Grant from the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology. Dr. Klontzas is an affiliated researcher with the Institute of Computer Science – FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas) and with Karolinska Institute (Sweden). He serves as Section Editor for Radiomics at the European Journal of Radiology, as an Advisory Editor of the European Journal of Radiology Artificial Intelligence, is on the editorial boards of European Radiology and Scientific Reports and is starting as an associate editor of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence (RSNA). Dr. Klontzas is also a member of the eHealth and Informatics Subcommittee of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the AI Working group of ESR, the ESR Research Committee, the board of the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII), the Future Strategy Task Force of the European Institute of Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR) and the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII). He has published more than 130 scientific articles indexed in PubMed, 11 book chapters for international publishers, and he is the editor of the books “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” and “Sustainability of AI in Radiology” (Springer). Dr. Klontzas is also a member of the CLAIM AI guidelines steering committee (RSNA) and one of the authors of the METRICS guidelines for quality assessment of radiomics studies by EuSoMII. In addition, he is the Series Editor for the “Imaging Informatics for Healthcare Professionals” series at Springer International. His clinical and research interests focus on diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal radiology, and he has extensive experience on US-guided MSK interventions.