Medical Imaging Informatics Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：这个新的基础广泛的T32提案的重点是支持研究生在加州大学洛杉矶分校从事成像信息学研究。随着成像作为一种客观记录和阐明疾病和人类状况的体内方法的普遍使用，在获取、不扩展和使用成像和相关（临床）数据以实现新知识和改善健康结果方面出现了新的研究挑战。由加州大学洛杉矶分校医学成像信息学（MII）小组领导，该培训计划将支持来自各个部门的博士生，包括生物工程，电气工程，计算机科学和信息研究。生物工程专业医学影像信息学专业的学生需要完成为期一年的核心课程，为影像信息学的不同方面提供基础基础，包括信息基础设施/系统和临床数据标准；医疗决策;医学知识表示与建模；信息检索;以及医学图像采集、标准化和内容理解的基本原理。学生们将接触到成像信息学研究的方方面面；它的应用程序;它与其他分支学科的关系日益密切，包括生物信息学和公共卫生。随后，博士预科生通过额外的选修课程在不同领域进一步扩大规模，这些课程提供高级培训，以支持论文领域。电子工程、计算机科学和信息研究专业的学生通过完成辅修课程（包括1年核心课程的课程）和针对成像信息学领域的论文研究，参与该培训计划。受训者立即从事影像信息学研究，并有广泛的机会与教师一起进行正在进行的研究项目。在现有影像信息学项目的基础上，该提案进一步包括：1)与兽医管理局和洛杉矶县卫生局协调，在夏季正式为生物工程一年级毕业生提供实习；2)公共卫生未成年人的发展；3)在临床和影像信息学领域开设新的选修课程。支持这一培训项目的教师代表了来自加州大学洛杉矶分校校园的跨学科研究小组，包括工程与应用科学学院；医学;公共卫生;研究生教育与信息研究。许多教师在各自的学科中是全国公认的领导者；总的来说，这些人提供了一套全面的和互补的（资助的）研究领域和技能，丰富了培训经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This new broad-based T32 proposal is focused on supporting graduate students pursuing imaging informatics research at UCLA. With the now ubiquitous usage of imaging as an in vivo method for objectively documenting and elucidating disease and the human condition, novel research challenges arise in the acquisition, the un- distending, and the usage of imaging and related (clinical) data to realize new knowledge and improved health outcomes. Led by the UCLA Medical Imaging Informatics (MII) group, this training program will support doctoral students from a variety of departments, including Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Studies. Students in Bioengineering specializing in medical imaging informatics fol- low a PhD program major structured around a 1-year core curriculum that provides a foundational basis in dif- ferment aspects of imaging informatics, covering information infrastructures/systems and clinical data standards; medical decision-making; medical knowledge representation and modeling; information retrieval; and the un- derlying principles of medical image acquisition, standardization, and content understanding. Students are ex- posed to the full spectrum of imaging informatics research; its applications; and its growing relation to other sub-disciplines, including bioinformatics and public health. Subsequently, predoctoral students further special- size in different areas through additional elective courses that provide advanced training in support of a disserta- tion area. Students from electrical engineering, computer science, and information studies participate in this training program through the completion of a minor, including coursework from the same 1-year core curricu- lum, and dissertation research addressing an imaging informatics area. Trainees are immediately engaged in imaging informatics research, with a wide range of opportunities to work with faculty on ongoing research pro- jects. Building from an existent imaging informatics program, this proposal further includes: 1) the formalization of a practicum for 1st year bioengineering graduates students during the summer, in coordination with the Vet- erans Administration and the Los Angeles County Health Department; 2) the development of a public health minor; and 3) the creation of new elective courses in the areas of clinical and imaging informatics. Faculty supporting this training program represents an interdisciplinary group of researchers from across the UCLA campus, including the Schools of Engineering & Applied Sciences; Medicine; Public Health; and Gradu- ate Education & Information Studies. Many of the faculty is nationally recognized leaders in their disciplines; collectively, these individuals provide a comprehensive and complementary set of (funded) research areas and skills that enrich the training experience.