Casimir Kulikowski
· Bd. of Gov. Prof.Rutgers University · Computer Science
Active 1974–2022
About
Dr. Casimir A. Kulikowski is the Board of Governors Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he has served since 1997. His major areas of research include artificial intelligence, biomedical and health informatics, and the societal impact of computers, especially in health and historical analysis. In biomedical and health informatics, he works on models for representing knowledge in clinical records and guidelines, methods of medical clinical support, biomedical imaging, predictive data mining, and the history of biomedical and health informatics. His artificial intelligence concentration involves pattern recognition, clustering, expert problem solving, knowledge representation, and visual reasoning. In imaging, his focus is on clustering and segmentation in large-scale image sets and the annotation of clinical images within clinical problem-solving contexts using metaphor and language. Regarding societal impact, he investigates the effects of computer technology on medical practice, biomedical research, bioethics, and the history of informatics and its influence on clinical care. Kulikowski has held numerous professional roles, including Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), Chair of its Working Group on the History of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and has been involved in editorial activities for several scientific journals. His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii and a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University. Throughout his career, he has received numerous honors and awards, such as Fellowships from the American College of Medical Informatics, the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, among others. His professional experience encompasses roles from Assistant Professor to Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, as well as leadership positions such as Department Chair and Director of research laboratories. His extensive publication record includes recent contributions on topics like the history of medical informatics, artificial intelligence in medicine, and the societal and ethical challenges of AI in healthcare.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Library science
- Medicine
- Political Science
- Medical education
- Engineering
- Engineering ethics
- Bioinformatics
- Pathology
Selected publications
A scientific mind embraces medicine: Donald Lindberg’s education and early career
Information Services & Use · 2022 · 6 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Medical education
As a young pathologist, Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., tirelessly sought scientific solutions to clinical and research problems. Directing several clinical laboratories at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Dr. Lindberg developed the world's first computerized laboratory information system, speeding analysis and reporting. He directed his team in building computer systems to help clinicians retrieve medical knowledge, enable patients to find information about personal or family health issues, and provide expert automated assistance to physicians in reaching differential diagnoses outside their specialties. Developing superior functionalities with the limited information technologies of the time, Dr. Lindberg's pioneering work in Columbia foreshadowed his subsequent inspired leadership as Director of the United States National Library of Medicine.
Donald A. B. Lindberg: Inspiring Leader and Visionary in Biomedicine, Healthcare, and Informatics
Yearbook of Medical Informatics · 2020 · 2 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Computer Science
- Engineering ethics
BACKGROUND: As Director of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) for 30 years, Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg was instrumental in bringing biomedical research and healthcare worldwide into the age of genomic and translational medicine through the informatics systems developed by the NLM. Lindberg opened free access and worldwide public dissemination of all the NLM's biomedical literature and databases, thus helping transform not only biomedical research like the Human Genome Project and its successors, but also the practices of medicine and healthcare internationally. Guiding, leading, and teaching-by-example at national, regional, and global levels of biomedical and healthcare informatics, Lindberg helped coalesce a dynamic discipline that provides a foundation for the human understanding which promotes the future health of our world. OBJECTIVES: To provide historical insight into the scientific, technological, and practical clinical accomplishments of Donald Lindberg, and to describe how this led to contributions in the worldwide interdisciplinary evolution of informatics, and its impact on the biosciences and practices of medicine, nursing, and other healthcare-related disciplines. METHODS: Review and comment on the publications, scientific contributions, and leadership of Donald Lindberg in the evolution of biomedical and health informatics which anticipate the vision, scholarship, research in the field, and represent the deeply ethical humanism he exhibited throughout his life. These were essential in producing the informatics systems, such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, and ClinicalTrials.gov, which, together with NLM training programs and conferences, made possible the interactions among researchers and practitioners leading to the past quarter-century of rapid and dramatic advances in biomedical scientific inquiry and clinical discoveries, openly shared across the globe. CONCLUSION: Dr. Lindberg was a uniquely talented physician and pioneering researcher in biomedical and health informatics. As the main leader in developing and funding innovative informatics research for more than 30 years as Director of the National Library of Medicine, he helped bring together the most creative interdisciplinary researchers to bridge the worlds of biomedical research, education, and clinical practice. Lindberg's emphasis on open-access to the biomedical literature through publicly shared computer-mediated methods of search and inquiry are seen as an example of ethical scientific openness.
Frequent coauthors
- 4 shared
Reinhold Haux
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
- 4 shared
Achim Hochlehnert
University Hospital Heidelberg
- 3 shared
Frank Ückert
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- 3 shared
Jürgen Stausberg
University of Duisburg-Essen
- 3 shared
Víctor Maojo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- 3 shared
Arie Hasman
Amsterdam University Medical Centers
- 3 shared
Petra Knaup
University Hospital Heidelberg
- 3 shared
Klaus-Hendrik Wolf
Labs
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Awards & honors
- Kulikowski and colleagues recognized at MIE Conference
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