Mathieu Lamard was born in Bordeaux, France, on May 18, 1968. He received the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Bordeaux, France, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunication in 1999 from the University of Rennes, France, after three years of research in the opthalmology field. In 2000, he joined the laboratory LaTIM–INSERM U650 (Laboratoire de Traitement de l’Information médicale). His research interests are related to image processing, 3-D reconstruction, content-based image retrieval, and data fusion for medical applications.