Koichi Shimizu | Optical Bioimaging Research | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Dr. Koichi Shimizu | Optical Bioimaging Research | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Dr. Koichi Shimizu | Xidian University | China

Koichi Shimizu is a distinguished Professor at Xidian University, renowned for his extensive contributions to electromagnetics, imaging technologies, and advanced signal processing. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, where he also served as a Research Associate. He later built a long and impactful academic career at Hokkaido University, Japan, progressing from Assistant Professor to full Professor and ultimately Professor Emeritus. He also serves as an Invited Research Professor at Waseda University, Japan. His research portfolio includes more than one hundred completed and ongoing projects, alongside over thirty consultancy and industry collaborations with notable organizations such as NASDA, Epson, and Huawei. With a prolific academic output comprising more than twenty books, over fifty granted patents with several more under review, and more than three hundred journal publications indexed in leading scientific databases, he is recognized as a leading figure in his field. He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine and sits on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports and Advanced Imaging. A Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, Koichi Shimizu continues to advance impactful interdisciplinary research and global academic collaboration.

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Featured Publications

1. Wang, J., Ieiri, Y., Yoshie, O., & Shimizu, K. (2026). A learnable transformer decoder for blurred near-infrared blood vessel segmentation using domain adaptation with limited data.

2. Nakagawa, Y., Yamaguchi, T., Ishimaru, T., Saito, T., Hattori, Y., Ono, T., Arai, Y., Hasegawa, Y., Shiga, H., Tamaki, K., et al. (2025). Day-to-day variation in masseteric electromyographic waveforms during the diurnal awake state.

3. Ishimaru, T., Yamaguchi, T., Saito, T., Nakagawa, Y., Hattori, Y., Ono, T., Arai, Y., Hasegawa, Y., Shiga, H., Tamaki, K., et al. (2025). Verification of the relationship between awareness of clenching or the teeth contacting habit and the integral value of masseteric electromyogram during diurnal wakefulness.

4. To, N. P. V., Hoang, N. H., Nguyen, N. A. D., Tran, T. N., & Shimizu, K. (2025). A large open access dataset of transillumination imaging toward the realization of optical computed tomography.

5. Ishimaru, T., Yamaguchi, T., Saito, T., Hattori, Y., Ono, T., Arai, Y., Hasegawa, Y., Shiga, H., Tamaki, K., Tanaka, J., et al. (2024). Actual state of the diurnal masseteric electromyogram: Differences between awareness and non-awareness of awake bruxism.