Clinical Image Analysis

Undergraduate student Amie Draper has received a Choose Ohio First Scholarship through the Ohio Bioinformatics Consortium for the 2010-2011 academic year. The program is aimed towards providing both undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in pursuing careers in bioinformatics or related fields with scholarships and educational opportunities. Scholarships are awarded to those who demonstrate academic excellence and a strong interest in computation and biology/chemistry.

A paper by Clinical Image Analysis Lab (CIA-LAB) researchers, Drs Gurcan and Sertel, in collaboration with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has received the best paper award in Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications track at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition. The paper entitled “A Multiple Instance Learning Approach toward Optimal Classification of Pathology Slides” competed with other 2140 papers for this recognition. The award-winning paper deals with histopathological image analysis of breast-cancer tissues with the aid of computers. The CIA-LAB at the Department of Biomedical Informatics (www.bmi.osu.edu/cialab ) designs and develops algorithms, tools, techniques for the computer-assisted analysis and interpretation of medical images .