Healthy Outlook: A unique medical informatics partnership opens students' eyes to research-intensive graduate programs and careers
“In the Loop” Magazine, Fall 2019
Supported by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) through its nationwide Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(REU) initiative, it accepts 10 students from across the country. Faculty and graduate
mentors at DePaul and its program partner, the University of Chicago’s
Radiology Imaging Research Institute, guide students through case studies in
biomedical and health care informatics, a field that merges medicine with computer
and data science to help medical practitioners make informed decisions more
conclusively. The OCT scans are part of a large, aggregated data set provided
by Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
When Computing and
Biology Collide
“In the Loop” Magazine, Fall 2016
It’s a long-standing
proverb that two minds are better than one. So how about three minds? Two pairs
of CDM faculty are putting this adage to the test, collaborating with two
assistant professors from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
(RFUMS) on projects that combine their respective disciplines: computing and
biology. Support from a grant program sponsored by the Alliance for Health
Sciences, a partnership between DePaul and RFUMS, facilitates these interdisciplinary
endeavors--modern-day meetings of great minds.
CTI Research Looks at Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer
“Hyperlink” Magazine, Winter 2008
CTI undergraduate students are
working alongside graduate students to develop software that will aid in the
early detection of lung cancer. The work was made possible by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) when it funded a consortium of five universities
affiliated with medical schools to populate a database with CT scans of lung
nodules. The Lung Image Database Consortium has been submitting the data to NIH
for the past three years. The data include images of the nodules, as well as
radiologists’ assessments regarding various characteristics that can indicate
whether a nodule is malignant or benign. The database, which is available to
the public, is expected to consist of some 1,300 nodules by 2009.
Diagnostic help for
radiologists
“In the Loop” Magazine,
Winter 2008
Every day, radiologists
across the country review hundreds of digital images--mammograms, CT and MRI
scans and more. Their trained eyes spot the shadings and imperfections, called nodules,
which are telltale signs of disease. The process is labor-intensive and
time-consuming, with radiologists spending much of their time reviewing normal
images.
CTI Team Developing Imaging Software to Help Doctors More
Quickly ID Problems
“Hyperlink” Magazine, Spring 2004
A team of CTI faculty members and
students is working to develop software that could save lives by helping
doctors more efficiently and accurately interpret medical images generated
through widely used Computed Axial Tomography scans, more commonly known as CT
or CAT scans.