Schedule of Events - Summer 2023

Schedule Subject to Change

All activities and events will be held in the Millennia Boardroom (room 723, CDM building, 243 South Wabash, Chicago, IL 60604 Loop campus) unless otherwise noted.

All times are Central Time.

Monday June 12, 2023

REU Welcome, Introduction & Tutorials, Logistics (Orientation Day)

08:30 AM

9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00AM

9:55AM

Welcome to CDM and DePaul - Dr. Dettori, Interim CDM Dean

 

 

Overview of the summer program - Drs. Furst & Raicu

9:55AM

10:25AM

Mentors & Students Introductions

10:25AM

10:30AM

Break

10:30AM

11:15AM

REU MedIX Experiences - Jorie Budzikowski, PhD student, Northwestern University (REU participant, Summer 2023)

11:15AM

11:45AM

Evaluation Process during the MedIX Program - Dr. Furst

Entry Survey of Expectations and Preferences I - online survey -REU students

11:45 AM

1:15 PM

Lunch Break

1:15 PM

3:00 PM

Tutorial 1: Introduction to Image Processing, Part 1 - Dr. Furst

3:00 PM

3:15 PM

Logistics (DePaul username accounts, computer lab remote access, pictures, website, hiring paper work)

3:15 PM

4:00 PM

Responsible conduct of research training, offered online by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), Part 1 - Dr. Furst

4:00 PM

5:00PM

Tutorial 2: Data Analysis Review - Dr. Ian Wang

 

Tuesday June 13, 2023

Logistics, Tutorials, Research seminar and Research Training (Orientation Day)

08:30 AM

9:00 AM

Breakfast

09:00 AM

10:30 AM

Tutorial 3: Lab session: Introduction to Matlab and Image Processing in Matlab tutorial - Part I - Dr. Furst, CDM Lab 801

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Tutorial 4: Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning-Dr. Tchoua

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Lunch Break

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

DePaul Research Project Descriptions - Dr. Tchoua

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

DePaul Research Project Descriptions - Dr. Furst

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

Responsible conduct of research training, offered online by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) -Part 2-Dr. Furst

04:30 PM

05:00 PM

Tour of CDM and of the DePaul Center (including the Jarvis Innovation and Collaboration Center) -Dr. Furst

 

Wednesday June 14, 2023

Tutorials, Project Descriptions and Visit to University of Chicago (Orientation Day)

09:30 AM

12:30 PM

Tutorial 5: Computer-aided diagnosis 

UofC Research Project Descriptions -Mena, Shenouda, Dr. Armato & Dr. Bader

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

Lunch break and travel back to DePaul

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

DePaul Research Project Descriptions -Dr. Raicu

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

Tutorial 6: Lab session: Introduction to SPSS/Python, and Data Analysis in SPSS/Python -Yiyang(Ian) Wang, CDM Lab 801)

 

Thursday June 15, 2023

Tutorials, Project Selection & Research seminar (Orientation Day)

08:30 AM

9:00 AM

Breakfast

09:00 AM

10:30 AM

Tutorial 7: Lab session: Introduction to Matlab and Image Processing in Matlab -Part II - Dr. Furst, CDM Lab 801

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Tutorial 8: Introduction to Deep Learning -Dr. Furst, CDM Lab 801

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Lunch Break

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Open Discussion/ Project Assignment

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

Professional Organizations in Computing, Medical Physics, and Medical Imaging -Dr. Raicu

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Retrieving and reading research papers -Dr. Raicu

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Developing a research career -Dr. Raicu

 

Friday June 16, 2023

Lab work and team meetings

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Lab Work and team meetings at UofC and DePaul

Projects kick off

 

Tuesday June 20, 2023

Lab work and visit to UofC

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

UofC Lecture: Radiographic imaging modalities (Dr. Armato)

Location: UChicago Medical Center Q207

 

Friday June 23, 2023

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

Group REU activities

1:00 PM

3:00 PM

Pizza lunch and progress report – each team will put together a 10-minute PPT presentation that will describe a) the problem you are working on (including goals for the project), b) motivation for the problem, and c) some interesting facts you discovered (1) about your project data based your preliminary analysis of the data and (2) papers you read so far

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Paper presentation by MedIX Team I – Nicole and Nuvia; please read the paper and be prepared to discuss strengths and weaknesses

Sharma, A., Vans, E., Shigemizu, D. et al. DeepInsight: A methodology to transform a non-image data to an image for convolution neural network architecture. Sci Rep 9, 11399 (2019).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47765-6

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

How to give a research presentation -- Dr. Raicu

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Creating TED-style Talks --Dr. Raicu

 

Tuesday June 27, 2023

Lab work and visit to UofC

3:00 PM

05:00 PM

UofC Lecture: Computed Tomography (Dr. La Riviere)

Location: UChicago Medical Center Q207

 

Friday June 30, 2023

Lab work, REU group meeting, and Survey

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

Group REU activities

1:00 PM

2:55 PM

Lunch and progress reports

2:55 PM

3:10 PM

Survey -Week 3

3:10 PM

3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM

3:45 PM

Paper presentation by MedIX Team II – Abheet and Avery; please read the paper and be prepared to discuss strengths and weaknesses

 

Liu, L.Y., Bush, W.S., KoyutĂĽrk, M. et al. Interplay between traumatic brain injury and intimate partner violence: data driven analysis utilizing electronic health records. BMC Women's Health 20, 269 (2020).

 

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-01104-4

3:45 PM

4:15 PM

Graduate Funding Opportunities - Dr. Furst

4:15 PM

5:00 PM

How to write a research paper -Dr. Furst

 

Wednesday July 05, 2023

Lab work and visit to UofC

3:00 PM

05:00 PM

UofC Lecture: Introduction to medical image processing (Dr. Armato)

Location: UChicago Medical Center Q207

 

Friday July 7, 2023

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

Group REU activities

1:00 PM

2:45 PM

Lunch and progress reports

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

Travel to IIT

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Meet and Greet with the REU students from BigDataX at IIT/UChicago

3:30 PM

5:00 PM

“A day in the life of a PhD student” (joint with IIT REU Program)

 

Saturday July 8, 2023

Picnic @Gilson Park, Wilmette

 

Tuesday July 11, 2023

Lab work and visit to UofC

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

UofC Lecture: The ABCs of CAD (Dr. Armato)

Location: UChicago Medical Center Q207

 

Friday July 14, 2023

Survey and midterm presentations

08:30 AM

9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM

9:40 AM

Presentation 1: "Real-Time Histotripsy with Robot Arm Based on Improved SURF Algorithm"

Emmanuel Rosa Delgado (University of Puerto Rico at Humacao) and Nina Soofi (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Mentor: Dr. Bader

9:40 AM

10:20 AM

Presentation 2: "Identification of Undiagnosed Traumatic Brain Injuries through Semi-Supervised Clustering of Clinical Reports"

Abheet Singh Sachdeva (Baylor University) and Avery Bell (Northern Arizona University)

Mentor: Dr. Furst

10:20 AM

10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM

11:10 AM

Presentation 3: "Texture Analysis for Differentiation of BAP1 Mutation Status from CT Scans"

Abbas Shaikh (Rice University) and Illana Deutsch (Northwestern University)

Mentor: Dr. Armato

11:10 AM

11:50 PM

Presentation 4: "Enhancing Subtype Discovery through Latent Representation Learning"

Julia Gugulski (Brown University) and Alicia Tee (University of Wisconsin -Madison)

Mentor: Dr. Raicu

11:50 PM

1:30 PM

Lunch

Location: DePaul Center (DPC 11013)

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

Survey -week 5

1:45 PM

2:25 PM

Presentation 5: "Transforming Data to Images for CNN Classification of High-Risk Patients Return to the Emergency Department"

Nicole Baugh (North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill) and Nuvia Hernandez (Lewis University)

Mentor: Dr. Tchoua 

2:25 PM

3:05 PM

Presentation 6: "Extracting Important Symptoms of Long Haul Covid through Machine Learning Algorithms"

Machelle Le (Swarthmore College) and Amelia Nelson (University of Utah)

Mentor: Dr. Furst

 

Tuesday July 18, 2023

Lab work and visit to UofC

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

UofC Lecture: Texture analysis, machine learning, and big data (Dr. Giger)

Location: UChicago Medical Center Q207

 

Friday July 21, 2023

Lab work, REU group meeting

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

Group REU activities

1:00 PM

2:45 PM

Lunch & MedIX teams progress reports

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

Paper presentation by MedIX Team III - Emmanuel and Nina

 

Abdouni A, Presles B, Fargier-Voiron M, Rit S, Sarrut D. Development of 2D+T tracking algorithm in ultrasound images for radiotherapy. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015 Aug;2015:2916-9. PMID: 26736902.

 

https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.73190024

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

“Women in Science and Technology” (Event Moderators: Nuvia and Nicole)

 

Tuesday July 25, 2023

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Visit to Argonne National Laboratory

 

Friday July 28, 2023

REU group meeting, seminars + survey

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

Group REU activities

1:00 PM

2:55 PM

Lunch & MedIX teams progress reports

2:55 PM

3:25 PM

Rescheduled Paper presentation by MedIX Team III - Emmanuel and Nina

 

Abdouni A, Presles B, Fargier-Voiron M, Rit S, Sarrut D. Development of 2D+T tracking algorithm in ultrasound images for radiotherapy. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015 Aug;2015:2916-9. PMID: 26736902.

 

https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.73190024

3:25 PM

3:30 PM

Break                                

3:30 PM

5:00 PM

Professional Organizations and Computing Competitions - Dr. Tchoua

 

Tuesday August 1, 2023

Lab work and visit to UofC

3:00 PM

05:00 PM

UofC Lecture: Ultrasound (Dr. Bader)

Location: UChicago Medical Center Q207

 

Friday August 4, 2023

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

Group REU activities

1:00 PM

2:55 PM

Lunch, Poster Draft Presentation & MedIX teams progress reports

2:55 PM

3:55 PM

Paper presentation by MedIX Team IV - Illana and Abbas

 

Zwanenburg, A., Leger, S., Agolli, L. et al. Assessing robustness of radiomic features by image perturbation. Sci Rep 9, 614 (2019).

 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36938-4

Paper presentation by MedIX Team V - Alicia and Julia

 

Schulz MA, Chapman-Rounds M, Verma M, Bzdok D, Georgatzis K. Inferring disease subtypes from clusters in explanation space. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 30;10(1):12900.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393364/

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

NSF GRFP program & Tips for Crafting a Winning NSF GRFP Application from previous funded REU students

 

Friday August 11, 2023

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar + survey

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

Group REU activities

1:00 PM

2:55 PM

Lunch MedIX teams’ progress reports

2:55 PM

3:15 PM

Survey for week 9

3:15 PM

3:45 PM

Paper presentation by MedIX Team VI - Amelia and Machelle

 

Thaweethai, T., Jolley, S.E., Karlson, E.W., Levitan, E.B., Levy, B., McComsey, G.A., McCorkell, L., Nadkarni, G.N., Parthasarathy, S., Singh, U. and Walker, T.A., 2023. Development of a definition of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Jama, 329(22), pp.1934-1946.

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2805540

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Research at CDM Seminar

 

Friday August 18, 2023

Final Presentation and Deliverables

08:30 AM

9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM

9:40 AM

Presentation 1: "Extracting Important Symptoms of Long Haul Covid through Machine Learning Algorithms"

Machelle Le (Swarthmore College) and Amelia Nelson (University of Utah)

Mentor: Dr. Furst

9:40 AM

10:20 AM

Presentation 2: "Enhancing Subtype Discovery through Latent Representation Learning"

Julia Gugulski (Brown University) and Alicia Tee (University of Wisconsin -Madison)

Mentor: Dr. Raicu

10:20 AM

11:00 AM

Presentation 3: "Real-Time Histotripsy with Robot Arm Based on Improved SURF Algorithm"

Emmanuel Rosa Delgado (University of Puerto Rico at Humacao) and Nina Soofi (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Mentor: Dr. Bader

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM

11:55 AM

Presentation 4: "Texture Analysis for Differentiation of BAP1 Mutation Status from CT Scans"

Abbas Shaikh (Rice University) and Illana Deutsch (Northwestern University)

Mentor: Dr. Armato

11:55 AM

12:15 PM

Exit Surveys

12:15 PM

1:45 PM

Lunch

1:45 PM

2:25 PM

Presentation 5: "Transforming Data to Images for CNN Classification of High-Risk Patients Return to the Emergency Department"

Nicole Baugh (North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill) and Nuvia Hernandez (Lewis University)

Mentor: Dr. Tchoua 

2:25 PM

3:05 PM

Presentation 6: "Identification of Undiagnosed Traumatic Brain Injuries through Semi-Supervised Clustering of Clinical Reports"

Abheet Singh Sachdeva (Baylor University) and Avery Bell (Northern Arizona University)

Mentor: Dr. Furst

3:05 PM

3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM

5:00 PM

Deliverables saved on the MedIX server