Laboratory of Medical Imaging High Performance Computing and Informatics

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Lab News or Important Events in HPC for Medical Imaging

Jun Ni received another NSF grant $50,000 to organize a NSF workshop on emerging model and petascale computing for nanoscience and nanotechnology. The workshop will provide education programs for K12/undergraduate, and graduate, faculty members whoa re interested in large-scale computations in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The workshop will be held at UIUC-NCSA. Workshop web site can be found here. The workshop also has a special topic in nanomedicine and nana o-enabling technology for medical imaging.

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Welcome two new members Mr. Changming Zhu and Ms. Yanbo Li join our lab. Both received Chinese Federal Funds which support their Ph.D. D thesis work at the University of Iowa. Dr. Jun Ni will be the Thesis co-Advisor.

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Jun Ni received NSF grant $50,000 to organize a N SF workshop on computations in Nanoelectronics (NSF-WCNE'08). The workshop provides undergraduate/graduate training session, professional presentation session, and collaboration/discussion session. The workshop information will be announced lately. The grant will provide many students fellowships, and top-level literature awards and fellowships. The workshop will be organized by NSF, University of Iowa, and NCSA at UIUC. The workshop will be held on UI campus. The details about the workshop can be found here.

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Bill Gates was recently interviewed by Michael Miller, the PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief, on the Bill's review of PC industrials in history and the vision of future development. The interview can be found at PC Magazine. More

Microsoft News Press released the article about" Universities Choose Microsoft High-Performance Computing to Advance Innovative Research". It s cites several academic customers report case of development and deployment in ventures ranging from biotechnology to urban modeling. The report includes our lab development. More ...

National Science Foundation News: LSU-Center for Computational Technologies (CCT) Director Dr. Ed Seidel is selected as the Director of NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure. more ...

US fastest supercomputer, IBM Runner, set the word-record. It reaches petaflops (processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second, or 1,000 trillion calculations per second). The system starts to serve DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in computations for nuclear weapons stockpile, and will be used used for astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change research. more ...

Dr. Jun Ni received 2008 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) summer faculty fellowship, working on cyber-infrastructure research and education.

Grant Opportunities

Government grants
NIH Extramural Research
NSF grant funding
UI Research funding

Department of Radiology
Carver College of Medicine
The University of Iowa

Welcome to MiHi Lab,

Cyber-enabled High Performance Computing for Medical Imaging & Informatics

Medical Image High Performance Computing (HPC) & Informatics Laboratory (MiHiL) is a research unit within the Department of Radiology in the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. The lab's research focuses on cyberinfrastructure-enabled high performance computing (HPC) and data intensive computing (DIC) for medical imaging, medical image informatics, and radiology informatics. The laboratory is operated by a group of faculty in the Department of Radiology at UI. The laboratory's current research projects are sponsored by the University of Iowa, National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIBIB), Intel, Microsoft, Microsoft, NSF, etc.

In 2004, the lab was founded by Dr. Ge Wang (currently, Samuel Reynolds Pritchard Professor in Virginia Tech) and Dr. Jun Ni (current lab director). The laboratory has 2000 sq. ft, which equipped computational grids, facility and software for medical imaging. It is physically located at Westlawn Medical Research Building on the west side of the UI campus.