Milan Sonka received his Ph.D. degree in 1983 from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Radiation Oncology, Co-director of the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, Director of the Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, MICCAI Fellow, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and Fulbright Specialist. His research interests include medical imaging and knowledge-based image analysis with emphasis on cardiovascular, pulmonary, orthopedic, cancer, and ophthalmic image analysis. His data-driven analysis approaches typically benefit from combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning data-driven approaches with more conventionally established strategies, combined in well-performing hybrid-level systems. He is the first author of 4 editions of “Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision” book (1993, 1998, 2008, 2014), co-editor of “Medical Image Analysis” book (2023), and co-author or co-editor of 20 other books/proceedings. He has published more than 220 journal papers and over 450 other publications. He is past Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and past Associate Editor of the Medical Image Analysis journal. To bring results of his research work to clinical practice, he has co-founded two medical imaging companies -- Medical Imaging Applications LLC and VIDA Diagnostics Inc.