REU Site: MedIX: Medical Informatics Experiences in Undergraduate Research

医学信息学（MedIX）项目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。该项目为期三个夏天，每年夏天有八名学生在四位敬业且经验丰富的导师的指导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攻读研究生教育，特别是在信息技术领域代表性不足的本科生；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影像信息学最新研究理念的启发，并受到这些研究理念在实践中实现所需的新颖数据挖掘和计算机视觉算法的启发。最终，每个项目都具有长期潜力，可以提高各地人民的医疗保健质量。教师将对影像信息学进行辅导、讲座和演示，要求学生经常展示作品，鼓励学生发表作品，并每两周召开一次学生、导师和团队会议。学生们作为教师-本科生团队的一部分研究新问题；他们参与确定研究方向，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改善信息技术和医学信息学领域大学教员的多样性。

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.