REU Site: MedIX: Medical Informatics Experiences in Undergraduate Research

REU 网站：MedIX：本科生研究中的医学信息学经验

• 批准号: 1062909
• 负责人: Daniela Raicu
• 金额: $ 32.55万
• 依托单位: DePaul University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1062909&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; MedIX; Medical; Informatics

The Medical Informatics (MedIX) program is hosted by the Medical Informatics Laboratory at DePaul University and the Imaging Research Institute at the University of Chicago. The program runs for three summers, with eight students doing research for ten weeks each summer under the supervision of four dedicated and experienced mentors. The MedIX program aims to 1) encourage talented undergraduates to pursue graduate education, especially undergraduates underrepresented in information technology, and b) expose students to interdisciplinary research, especially at the border of information technology and medicine. All of the students' projects are inspired by state-of-the-art research ideas in imaging informatics and by novel data mining and computer vision algorithms that these research ideas require in order to be realized in practice. Ultimately, each project has the long-term potential to increase the quality of healthcare available to people everywhere. Faculty will conduct tutorials, lectures, and demonstrations on imaging informatics, require frequent presentations of student work, encourage students to publish, and conduct biweekly meetings of students, mentors, and teams. Students work as part of faculty-undergraduate teams on new problems; they participate in defining the direction of their research, and they are strongly encouraged to publish meaningful results. The intended impact is to continue the increase in enrollment of undergraduates into graduate school, especially with respect to underrepresented students and interdisciplinary research. Further, the emphasis on recruiting underrepresented populations can ultimately help improve the diversity of university faculty in information technology and medical informatics.

医学信息学（MedIX）计划由德保罗大学医学信息学实验室和芝加哥大学成像研究所主办。该计划为期三个夏天，每年夏天有八名学生在四名专业且经验丰富的导师的监督下进行为期十周的研究。MedIX计划旨在1）鼓励有才华的本科生，特别是在信息技术方面代表性不足的本科生，追求研究生教育，以及B）让学生接触跨学科研究，特别是在信息技术和医学的边界。 所有学生的项目都受到成像信息学最先进的研究思想以及这些研究思想在实践中实现所需的新型数据挖掘和计算机视觉算法的启发。 最终，每个项目都有长期的潜力，可以提高世界各地人民的医疗保健质量。 教师将进行教程，讲座和演示成像信息学，需要学生工作的频繁演示，鼓励学生发表，并进行学生，导师和团队的双周会议。 学生作为教师本科团队的一部分工作的新问题;他们参与定义他们的研究方向，并强烈鼓励他们发表有意义的结果。预期的影响是继续增加本科生进入研究生院的人数，特别是在代表性不足的学生和跨学科研究方面。此外，强调招募代表性不足的人群最终可以帮助提高大学信息技术和医学信息学教师的多样性。