Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Raimondo Schettini, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to J. Imaging by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for J. Imaging.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All the reviewers for J. Imaging in 2022 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in J. Imaging in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in March 2023 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for J. Imaging but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
J. Imaging Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “J. Imaging 2021 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in J. Imaging from 22 December 2020 to 20 December 2021. One review and one research article will receive the award. The papers will be selected after thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee, led by EiC Prof. Dr. Raimondo Schettini.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in J. Imaging between 22 December 2020 and 20 December 2021;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2022.

Prizes:
– The winning review and research article will each receive CHF 500 and the opportunity to publish a paper at no cost in J. Imaging in 2023;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2023.

Kind regards,
J. Imaging Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the J. Imaging 2020–2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The J. Imaging Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to J. Imaging. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Jung Sun Yoo
Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests: application of machine learning in medical imaging; biomedical optics; molecular imaging; intravital/intraoperative imaging; multimodality imaging

Dr. Josemaria Martinezo
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Research Interests: machine learning; computer vision; 3D vision; deep learning; video action recognition

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Raimondo Schettini
Editor-in-Chief, J. Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the J. Imaging 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Volume 6 (18 December 2019–21 December 2020) in J. Imaging were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the one winning paper, which was nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Raimondo Schettini, has been selected.

One review:
Explainable Deep Learning Models in Medical Image Analysis
By Amitojdeep Singh, Sourya Sengupta and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
J. Imaging 2020, 6(6), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging6060052

The winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in J. Imaging free of charge (1600 CHF) in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winner on his accomplishment. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to J. Imaging, and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Kind regards,
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Raimondo Schettini, J. Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of J. Imaging, I am pleased to announce the winners of the J. Imaging 2020–2021 Travel Awards.

The awards have been granted to: Dr. Cameron Kaye and Ms. Alexandra Trujillo.

Cameron Kaye is a recent MD/PhD graduate from the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, working within the Price Faculty of Engineering’s Electromagnetic Imaging Laboratory (EIL) in the field of microwave breast imaging. His specific research interests include magnetic contrast enhancement of microwave imaging and its associated clinical applications. He plans to attend URSI GASS 2021 in Rome, Italy, to present the EIL’s research on a new related modality referred to as ferromagnetic resonance imaging (FRI).

Alexandra Trujillo is currently researching deep-learning-based high-performance algorithms for 3D anthropometric reconstruction with applications in biological anthropology, medicine and forensic sciences. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Imaging Science Laboratory (Universidad Nacional del Sur), and she works for the National Research and Technology Council of Argentina (CONICET) in the Human Evolutionary Biology Research Group of the National Patagonian Center (CENPAT). She would like to attend 3dbody.tech to present body2vec: 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction for Precise Anthropometry with Handheld Devices.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all of the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Raimondo Schettini
Editor-in-Chief
On behalf of the J. Imaging 2020–2021 Travel Awards Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the two winners of the Journal of Imaging 2019 Travel Award. The awards were granted to Mr. Grigorios Chrysos, a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, and Dr. Hai Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. The award recipients will receive 400 Swiss Francs each to support their attendance at any academic conference on the related areas in 2019.

Mr. Grigorios Chrysos is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His interests lie at the intersection of statistical machine learning and computer vision.

Dr. Hai Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow in mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto. His recent research focuses on the development of a 3D photothermal coherence tomography (3D PCT) technique.

With so many high-quality applicants, selecting the recipients of the awards was a difficult decision, and we would like to thank the Evaluation Committee for their excellent work in selecting the winners from such a
large pool of excellent candidates. We wish to congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Imaging, on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce that the winner of the Journal of Imaging 2018 Travel Award is Mr. Aviad Levis, a PhD student at the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, who will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards his travel expenses to attend IEEE 2018 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), to be held in Salt Lake City, USA, 18-22 June 2018.

Mr. Aviad Levis is a PhD candidate at Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering,Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. His research is in 3D imaging, computer vision, and microscopy. Mr. Levis has been invited to give talks in international conferences, sometimes as a sole author. His paper “Statistical Tomography of Microscopic Life” has been accepted to the IEEE 2018 Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

This was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the award, and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and thought-provoking presentations.

Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz
Editor-in-Chief

The Journal of Imaging Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Imaging. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained. The median time to first decision was 22 days in 2017 and the median time to publication was 58 days.

The following referee has been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Imaging, Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz, to receive the “Journal of Imaging 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of his reviews in 2017. Dr. Reyes-Aldasoro will receive 500 CHF and a certificate for his outstanding review work:

Dr. Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro
City, University of London, UK