Steven Senger, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse where he has held joint appointments in the departments of Computer Science and Mathematics since 1983. He is currently chair of the Computer Science department. His research interests include mathematical logic, scientific visualization and the use of high-performance networks to support collaborative educational environments.
Since 1993 Senger has worked in the area of anatomical visualization starting with the Digital Cadaver environment. This environment utilized the Visible Human data sets created by the National Library of Medicine and allowed non-technical users to browse and segment the data sets in cross-section and from the segmentations produce 3D reconstructions of anatomical structures. This environment allowed users to create images that captured the choices they thought important in portraying the anatomy. In this way it created a digital analogue to the classic dissect & sketch paradigm.
Since 1999, Senger has collaborated with the SUMMIT group at the Stanford University Medical School on a National Library of Medicine funded project to explore innovative applications that are made possible by high-performance networks such as Internet2. This effort has produced a number of applications ranging from anatomical viewers that run on wireless handheld computers to stereoscopically immersive visualization environments such as the Immersive Segmentation system.