Introduction
Led by Dr. David Foran, professor of Pathology and Radiology at UMDNJ / Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics will enhance the imaging capabilities and resources available at UMDNJ and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey for use in basic research, clinical services, and teaching. CBII was founded in 1996 and maintains active laboratories at the UMDNJ research tower as well as the Cancer Institute.
News
June 22, 2007
The CBII lab has 5 new publications in press. The Help Defeat Cancer project is winding to a close and lab members will be presenting their work at numerous conferences over the summer.
The participants of CBII have established departmental and school-wide programs, such as the BioImagingLaboratory in Pathology, the shared resource Confocal Microscopy Laboratory in Pharmacology, and the Laurie Imaging Center. CBII has relationships with the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, as well as the private sector.
Members of founding group in Pathology, Radiology and Pharmacology were awarded research funds from private and federal resources to develop their individual programs. In Pathology and Radiology, funding is allocated to establish a database of digitized images and to develop algorithms for computer-assisted image interpretation and improved resource utilization. This database will provide students, residents, and physicians resources to better understand strategies in clinical decision-making, thus delivering more cost-effective methods for rendering differential diagnoses. The system will serve as a resource for computer related research projects in data mining, data visualization, image processing, quantitative imaging, neural networks, and statistical pattern recognition.
Biomedical imaging is an interdisciplinary field with roots in biology, medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. It encompasses a broad spectrum of techniques and processes for acquiring, analyzing, storing, transmitting and retrieving images related to molecules, cells, tissues, organs and organisms. Basic research efforts include molecular imaging by X-rays or high resolution electron microscopy; cellular imaging by phase and Nomarski optics and scanning confocal microscopy; tissue, organ and organism imaging by X-rays, MRI or CT scanning. These imaging methodologies have been enhanced by recent progress in digital information management.
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