Medical Imaging Informatics Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：这一新的基础广泛的T32提案侧重于支持在加州大学洛杉矶分校从事成像信息学研究的研究生。随着成像作为一种客观记录和阐明疾病和人类状况的活体方法的普遍使用，在获取、不膨胀以及使用成像和相关(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)小组领导的这一培训计划将支持来自不同系的博士生，包括生物工程、电气工程、计算机科学和信息研究。生物工程专业是医学影像信息学专业的学生，主修为期一年的核心课程，提供成像信息学不同方面的基础知识，包括信息基础设施/系统和临床数据标准；医学决策；医学知识表示和建模；信息检索；以及医学图像获取、标准化和内容理解的基本原则。学生将接触到成像信息学研究的全范围，它的应用，以及它与包括生物信息学和公共卫生在内的其他子学科之间日益增长的关系。随后，博士前学生通过额外的选修课进一步扩大不同领域的特殊规模，这些选修课提供支持学位论文领域的高级培训。来自电气工程、计算机科学和信息研究的学生通过完成辅修课程来参加这个培训计划，包括相同的一年制核心课程的课程作业，以及针对成像信息学领域的论文研究。受训者立即从事成像信息学研究，有广泛的机会与教职员工合作进行正在进行的研究项目。在现有的成像信息学计划的基础上，这项建议进一步包括：1)与兽医管理局和洛杉矶县卫生局合作，在夏季为生物工程毕业生一年级学生正规化实习；2)开发一个公共卫生辅修课程；以及3)在临床和成像信息学领域创建新的选修课。支持这一培训计划的教职员工代表着来自加州大学洛杉矶分校校园内的跨学科研究人员小组，包括工程与应用科学学院、医学院、公共卫生学院以及研究生教育与信息研究学院。许多教师在各自学科领域都是国家公认的领导者；这些人共同提供了一套全面和互补的(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.