MedIX: MEDical Informatics eXperiences in Undergraduate Research

MedIX：本科生研究中的医学信息学经验

• 批准号: 0453456
• 负责人: Daniela Raicu
• 金额: $ 22.67万
• 依托单位: DePaul University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-02-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0453456&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MedIX; MEDical; Informatics; eXperiences; Undergraduate

The proposed REU site is in the area of Medical Informatics and will addressissues related to the workflow driven acquisition of image data in anelectronic medical record environment, and the subsequent post-processing ofthe image information to improve the accuracy and efficiency of theconsumers of this information, notably radiologists. In particular,segmentation, texture analysis, classification and annotation of computedtomography (CT) images using computer vision and data mining techniques willbe emphasized.Since many racial minorities are significantly underrepresented in computerscience (CS) departments, the primary educational objective is to promotegraduate studies for bright, talented undergraduates - especiallyfirst-generation college students and undergraduates from groupshistorically underrepresented in exact sciences. Furthermore, since thedemand for individuals who see their career opportunities at theintersection between Medical Informatics and CS far outstrips the currentsupply, the second educational objective is to promote and encourageinterdisciplinary undergraduate studies in computer science and medicalinformatics.The MedIX (MEDical Informatics eXperiences in undergraduate research) REUsite will run for three summers, with eight student participants spending 10weeks each summer doing research both at DePaul University, IntelligentMultimedia Processing Laboratory and Northwestern University, FeinbergSchool of Medicine, Imaging Informatics Laboratory.

拟议的REU网站位于医疗信息学领域，将解决与电子病历环境中以工作流驱动的图像数据获取以及随后图像信息的后处理有关的问题，以提高这类信息消费者，特别是放射科医生的准确性和效率。特别强调使用计算机视觉和数据挖掘技术对计算机断层扫描(CT)图像进行分割、纹理分析、分类和注释。由于许多少数族裔在计算机科学(CS)系中的代表性严重不足，教育的主要目标是促进聪明、有才华的本科生的研究生学习-特别是第一代大学生和来自精确科学历史上代表性不足的群体的本科生。此外，由于在医学信息学和CS的交叉点看到自己职业机会的个人的需求远远超过了目前的供应，第二个教育目标是促进和鼓励计算机科学和医学信息学的跨学科本科生学习。MEDIX(医学信息学本科生研究经验)REUSITE将持续三个暑期，8名学生参与者每年夏天花10周的时间在德保罗大学、智能多媒体处理实验室和西北大学、范伯格医学院、成像信息学实验室进行研究。