Longquan Chen
Fellow Of Software Scientist at Boston Scientific
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLongquan Chen is a software scientist with 10+ years specializing in image-guided therapy, clinical software and medical-device communication. He has led R&D and principal engineering efforts at Boston Scientific after research roles at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Fraunhofer MEVIS, blending algorithmic work (image inhomogeneity correction, real-time segmentation/tracking) with product-quality engineering. Longquan helped develop OpenIGTLink—contributing backend code and extensive test automation—to standardize device communication in the OR. His background in laser and optical engineering and a master’s in information and automation underpin hands-on projects from MRI-compatible robot modeling to navigation systems for liver ablation. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluently between prototyping research ideas and hardening them into testable, regulatory-ready clinical software. He is based in Greater Boston and focuses on bringing AI-driven real-time imaging into robust therapeutic workflows.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information and Automation, Master’s Degree Information and Automation at University of BremenBachelor's degree Laser and Optical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Laser and Optical Engineering at Shandong University
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
data-structures6
data-structure6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openigtlink/OpenIGTLink
Jan 2016 - Aug 2022
Free, open-source network communication library for image-guided therapy
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 365 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Longquan's commits primarily focus on the development and testing aspects of the OpenIGTLink library. They modified existing test files and created new tests for several message types (Image, LabelMeta, NDArray, Point, PolyData, Trajectory, TrackingData, and others). The user appears to be involved in ensuring the correct implementation and functionality of OpenIGTLink by adding comprehensive tests and improving the API related to message handling and data integrity.
communication-librarytherapydeep-learningcommunicationc-plus-plus
leochan2009/OpenIGTLinkIO
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
Library for interfacing to openigtlink/OpenIGTLink, dependent on VTK and Qt. Based on openigtlink/OpenIGTLinkIF
Contributions:55 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 2 months
openigtlinkqt5vtk
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