Hawkeye Radiology Informatics -- Projects

Project 1
Medical Imaging Informatics (MII) and/or Radiology Informatics (RI) is a new discipline which focuses on the research and development of effective and efficient solutions to the problems of processing large-scale medical image data sets and information overload. Research in this area aims to develop systems that make efficient use of information and communication technology, advanced research computing techniques, and system engineering paradigm to facilitate novel radiological interpretation process; enhance today's medical imaging-based health and hospital management systems With the research in medical image informatics and radiology informatics, people can ultimately improve image-based disease detection and diagnosis, dynamically designing and monitoring of radiation therapy, and develop new diagnostic technologies, through extensive use of today's information science and technology.

Project 2
The field is fostered and developed exponentially due to huge demands, mainly due to (1) the number of medical images available to radiologists is growing rapidly, (2) the size of image data is increased significantly for high resolution or at microscopic level, (3) the image data are in temporal space for dynamic imaging, and (4) many innovative image processing require data intensive computation and high performance computing. The current image data. has outpaced the human ability to process them. Computing and computational aids play unprecedented role in assisting radiologists to effectively and efficiently operate diagnostic practice.

Project 3
Medical imaging informatics or radiology informatics has a very broader scope. It covers large-scale medical imaging, image process and analysis, medical image information systems, data storage, achieving/retrieving, database, database management, formatting, conversion, resources discovery, integration to health and hospital management systems, business management modules, large-scale modeling and simulations based on imaging, image streaming, communication and networking. It also envelops the recently developed technologies such as medical image data mining and statistics, image recognition, image searching, image mapping, image comparison, neural/kernel and machine learning, support vector machine (SVM), as well as systems engineering for radiological systems.

Project 4
MII and RI's research and development requires strong multidisciplinary background and expertises from radiology, medical and biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, computer and computational sciences, information and management sciences, biology, biochemistry, physics, mathematics, chemistry, and even social and humanity sciences.

Project 5
Hawkeye Radiology Informatics Initiative facilitates the research and development of medical imaing informatics research and clinic use at the University of Iowa. Its' programs and projects will be integrated into the radiology departmental strategy and UI medical college's clinic translational science infrastructure. Its research activities will promote UI medical imaging based research and clinical trials to be at national competitive level. The ultimate goal is to establish a nationally-recognized research facility in radiology informatics; hence to ppromote national health systems for broader impacts.

Project 6
HRI groups national level experienced clinic radiologists and outstanding research faculty who are interested in developing new methodology and technology, and using large-scale medical imaging informatics for research use and clinic practice, while fostering new generations of research and clinic workforces through our abundant education programs. Medical students, fellows, graduate and undergraduate students are involved and woman and minority are encouraged to join the workforce.

Hawkeye Radiology Informatics (HawkRI)
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