In March 2004, Henk Heijmans suffered a stroke that seriously
impaired his language and reading capabilities, even to such an
extent that he is quite unable to continue working as a
scientist. In addition to being a tremendous personal tragedy
for Henk, this situation will also lead to a substantial decline
in income for him and his family.
Henk has had an outstanding role in the development of image
analysis and mathematical morphology in the Netherlands and
worldwide. He contributed many key papers and several important
books, co-organized the 4th International Symposium on
Mathematical Morphology, as well as many other workshops, edited
the Morphology Digest during 9 years, and served in the editorial
board of several outstanding journals and in the program
committee of many conferences.
Given the immense services he has rendered to the image analysis
community, we felt the need to express our solidarity with him
and his family. Therefore we are opening a fund to aid in
financially supporting Henk and his family. We kindly ask you to
donate to the bank account opened for it. Here are the details
of the account:
Prof. Dr. Jos Roerdink
Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
Tel. +31-50-3633931
Fax +31-50-3633800
Email: jbtm.roerdink@inter.nl.net