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Research profile
Marcel Breeuwer is part-time full professor in the Medical Image Analysis group of the department of Biomedical Engineering and in the Signal Processing Systems group of the department of Electrical Engineering. His focus is on the clinical application of image analysis and visualization, and on computational modeling applications for supporting the care of patients with cardiovascular disease, neurological disease, or cancer. His expertise is in data compression; image-guided surgery; medical image analysis; medical signal processing; visualization; machine/deep learning; cardiovascular disease; neurology; oncology; and research project management.
Academic background
Marcel Breeuwer studied Electrical Engineering (Information Theory) at the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) where he received his MSc degree in 1982.He performed his PhD research at VU University Amsterdam on supplementing lipreading with auditory information. After receiving his PhD in 1985 he became a Research Scientist at the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), investigating data compression of audio, video and medical images and heading the video coding team. In 1996, he started as Senior Scientist at Philips Healthcare (Best, The Netherlands) in the area of image-guided surgery and medical image processing. In 2006, he became Principal Scientist and head of the cardiovascular team in the Clinical Science & Advanced Development department, Business Unit Clinical Informatics Solutions. In 2010, he moved to the Clinical Science department of the Business Unit Magnetic Resonance and on 30 November 2023 he retired at Philips. In 2009, Marcel Breeuwer was appointed part-time full professor of Algorithms in Clinical Image Analysis Software in the Medical Image Analysis group of the department of Biomedical Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology, research group Medical Image Analysis. Since 1 October 2022, he is also part-time full processor in the Signal Processing Systems group of the department of Electrical Engineering. He is member of the Board of the Dutch Society of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (NVPHBV) and Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering Sciences (EAMBES).
External positions
Principal Scientist, Philips
1 Oct 1985 → 30 Nov 2023
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Improving Myelin Imaging for NeuroDegenerative disorders
Zinger, S. (Project Manager), Breeuwer, M. (Project member) & Monachino, S. (Project member)
1/10/23 → 1/10/27
Project: Third tier
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Spectralligence AI211009
Breeuwer, M. (Project Manager), Veta, M. (Project member), Amirrajab, S. (Project member) & van de Sande, D. M. J. (Project member)
1/11/21 → 31/10/24
Project: Third tier
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Are we developing the right intraoperative AI assistance? Surgeons’ perspectives and desired functions
Badaloni, F. (Corresponding author), Kuiper, G., de Jong, R., van Jaarsveld, R., Li, Y., van der Neut, M., Asag-Gau, A., Zeyara, A., Breeuwer, M., van Hillegersberg, R. & Ruurda, J., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Surgical Endoscopy. XXResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Assessment of Optimal T1/T2-Weighted Combinations for Myelin Sensitivity: Effects of Echo Time and Exponents
Monachino, S. (Corresponding author), Drenthen, G. S., van den Boogaard, L. J. M., Breeuwer, M., Dinis Fernandes, C., Gerlach, O., Zinger, S. & Jansen, J. F. A., Jun 2026, In: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 95, 6, p. 3176-3186 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Data-driven Synthesis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data using a Variational Autoencoder
van de Sande, D. M. J., Merkofer, J. P., Amirrajab, S., Veta, M., Drenthen, G. S., Jansen, J. F. A. & Breeuwer, M., 28 Feb 2026, arXiv.org, 20 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic
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Do segmentation metrics reflect clinical reality? A surgeon-centered evaluation in robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy
de Jong, R. (Corresponding author), Li, Y., van Jaarsveld, R., Kuiper, G., van Hillegersberg, R., Ruurda, J., Pluim, J., Breeuwer, M. & Al Khalil, Y., Jan 2026, In: Surgical Endoscopy. 40, 1, p. 277-290 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Scaling up self-supervised learning for improved surgical foundation models
Jaspers, T. J. M. (Corresponding author), de Jong, R. L. P. D. (Corresponding author), Li, Y., Kusters, K., Bakker, F. H. A., van Jaarsveld, R. C., Kuiper, G. M., van Hillegersberg, R., Ruurda, J. P., Brinkman, W. M., Pluim, J. P. W., de With, P. H. N., Breeuwer, M., Al Khalil, Y. & van der Sommen, F., Feb 2026, In: Medical Image Analysis. 108, 16 p., 103873.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Datasets
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Data for: Neu3CA-RT: A Framework for Real-Time fMRI Analysis
Heunis, S. (Creator), de Louw, A. (Contributor), Lamerichs, R. (Contributor), Bergmans, J. (Contributor), Breeuwer, M. (Contributor) & Besseling, R. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, 5 Oct 2018
DOI: 10.17632/xm3yfpzrvx.1, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/xm3yfpzrvx
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Courses
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Capita selecta in medical image analysis
Breeuwer, M., Pluim, J. P. W. & Scannell, C. 1/09/15 → 31/08/26
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MRI for the brain
Sumser, K., Dinis Fernandes, C., Heijman, E., Chamberland, M., Breeuwer, M., Jansen, J. F. A. & Zivkovic, I. 1/09/22 → 31/08/26
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Press/Media
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Data on Engineering Reported by Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (Spatial and Temporal Quality of Brain Networks for Different Multi-Echo fMRI Combination Methods)
Zinger, S., Breeuwer, M., Lamerichs, R. M. J. N. & Pilmeyer, J.
7/11/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Eindhoven University of Technology Reports Findings in Machine Learning (A review of machine learning applications for the proton MR spectroscopy workflow)
Jansen, J. F. A., van Sloun, R. J. G., Breeuwer, M., Veta, M., Amirrajab, S., Merkofer, J. P. & van de Sande, D. M. J.
17/07/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Studies from Eindhoven University of Technology Have Provided New Information about Obesity, Fitness and Wellness (A Framework for Simulating Cardiac Mr Images With Varying Anatomy and Contrast)
Breeuwer, M., Pluim, J. P. W., Amirrajab, S. & Al Khalil, Y.
16/06/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment