The Visual Informatics and Data Analytics [VIDA] Group at DePaul

The Visual Informatics and Data Analytics [VIDA] Group at DePaul University focuses on designing, developing, and implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, and computer vision algorithms for big data analytics, visualization, and human-computer scientific interactions.

Two laboratories, the Medical Informatics (MedIX) lab and the Intelligent Multimedia Processing (IMP) lab, house state-of-the-art research that combines theory and experimental methodologies to provide novel solutions to challenging real-world problems. The research conducted in the labs is applied to various domains including biomedical and healthcare informatics, neuroscience, psychology, materials science, security, and urban studies.

NEWS & EVENTS

October 02, 2026 Dr. Daniela Raicu and Dr. Roselyne Tchoua presented papers at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026), held in Naples, Italy, from September 28 to October 2, 2026. The presented works were: "Multimodal Stacked Ensemble Learning for Hospital Readmission Prediction with Cost-Sensitive Analysis", "A Visual-Semantic Framework for Explaining Generative Lung Nodule Transformations Via Siamese Network", and "Codebook-Guided LLMs for Social Ecological Coding of Breast Cancer Screening Focus Groups".
September 16, 2026 Congratulations to Dr. Thiru Ramaraj on receiving the DePaul University Spirit of Inquiry Award, which recognizes outstanding research, scholarly, and creative achievements.
July 20, 2026 Congratulations to Rohan Patil and Sakshi Gorkhali on acceptance of their paper in the eScience conference.
May 11, 2026 Congratulations to Mirtha Lucas, PhD candidate, who defended her PhD dissertation titled "Explainable artificial intelligence in the image domain and its applications to the medical field".
April 08, 2026 Congratulations to Dr. Daniela Raicu for a $200,000 Steans Family Foundation-funded project for advancing data-driven housing strategies in Chiacgo's North Lawndale community.
January 21, 2026 Congratulations to Khizer Khan on being selected to participate in the Big East Student Research Poster Symposium that will be held on March 14, 2026 in New York City.