Dr. Masateru Kawakubo is an assistant professor at the Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan. He obtained the license of Radiological Technologist (RT) in Japan in 2005. Afterwards, he engaged in clinical examination and treatment as an RT at the National University Hospital of Yamaguchi University and Kyushu University from 2005 to 2015 and obtained a PhD at Kyushu University in 2015. He was previously an assistant professor with the Department of Fukuoka Medical Technologies, Teikyo University from 2015-2017. His main research interests are the analysis and processing of cardiovascular imaging to propose novel clinical indices for patients with cardiovascular disease.