Tae-Seong Kim is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Kyung Hee University in the Republic of Korea. He earned his B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1991. He went on to receive M.S. degrees in both Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from USC in 1993 and 1998, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at USC in 1999. Dr. Kim conducted his postdoctoral research in Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine in 2000. Subsequently, he joined the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at USC as a Research Scientist and Research Assistant Professor. In 2004, Dr. Kim moved to Kyung Hee University, where he currently serves as a Professor. His research interests encompass biomedical imaging, bioelectromagnetism, neural engineering, and assistive lifecare technologies. He has been pioneering new methodologies in signal and image processing, machine learning, pattern classification, and artificial intelligence. Recently, Dr. Kim has initiated novel projects focused on the development of smart robotics and machine vision utilizing deep learning techniques. Dr. Kim is a prolific author, having published over 380 papers and twelve international book chapters. He holds ten international and domestic patents and has received numerous best paper awards.

Prof. Jun Zhao** received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006. He has been with Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 1991 and currently serves as Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, and Head of the Medical Imaging Discipline. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Iowa, USA. Prof. Zhao's research interests include medical imaging and medical image processing. He pioneered the development of the three-source exact helical CT model and algorithm, the three-source exact saddle-curve CT model and algorithm, and introduced the virtual eversion visualization method. He serves as a member of the Teaching Steering Committee for Biomedical Engineering under the Ministry of Education of China, and holds editorial positions with *Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization* and the *International Journal of Biomedical Imaging*. He has led numerous national research projects, published more than 150 papers in leading journals including *IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging*, *Physics in Medicine & Biology*, and *Medical Physics*, and holds over 20 Chinese invention patents and one U.S. patent.