Facilities

DePaul University

The Intelligent Multimedia Processing (IMP) Laboratory will host the project activities at the School of Computing and Digital Media (CDM). The CDM research laboratory has seven faculty members and a mission focused on medical imaging, image processing, computer vision, content-based multimedia retrieval, data analysis and data mining.  The goal is to develop both the theory and the tools for real world applications from various domains.   There are around 10 students performing research in the lab every year. The IMP lab facilities include six high-end workstations boasting Intel i7 processors at 2.8 GHz per core and having large amounts of memory (~ 8GB). 

The Medical Imaging Informatics (MedIX) laboratory houses ten workstations providing workspace for ten-full-time students.  The MedIX workstations have the latest Intel i7 processors at 2.8 GHz per core 8GB of DDR each.

Both labs are equipped with image processing and statistical software to enable the proposed studies.  Prototyping of image processing algorithms will be done on MatLab; statistical analyses will be conducted in MatLab and SPSS.  Machine learning and data mining algorithms will be implemented in MatLab and AnswerTree.  The open source will be developed in C#.  The labs are also equipped with a small library of relevant texts.                                            

The IMP and MedIX labs are located at DePaul University and thus benefit from the Universitiy’s extensive internal networking support, including wireless ports throughout the university. DePaul has an Internet2 high-speed connection for conducting research, and the library has considerable holdings online.   Faculty and staff also have access to any of the University’s many public labs.     

 

University of Chicago 

Laboratory:  The Radiology Imaging Research Institute located in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago will be the facility for the proposed research.  The laboratories for x-ray imaging have over 30 faculty and staff members with 14,000 square-feet of recently renovated laboratory space.  The facility includes two dedicated computer rooms, seven laboratories (one psychophysics with two rooms dedicated for observer performance studies, one film digitization, one scientific computing and visualization, three digital image processing), three x-ray rooms (containing five x-ray generators and seven x-ray tubes, including a Fischer digital stereotactic system and a Faxitron DX20), one darkroom, and three conference rooms.  We have in the laboratory a R2 Technology, Inc, ImageChecker 1000 system modified so that we can archive the digitized images and we have access to a file that contains the x-y location and lesion type of all computer detections.

 Clinical:  The Radiology Department has 47 attending radiologists, 7 fellows, and 24 residents.  There are 6 radiologists and 1 fellow performing breast imaging.  Over 18,000 mammographic examinations are performed each year in the department.  The department has three dedicated mammographic imaging units, one digital stereotactic breast needle biopsy unit, one breast ultrasound unit, two GE full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system, and a FujiFilm CR system for mammography. 

Computer:  Computer workstations include: 16 SGI workstations, 5 SUN Ultrasparc workstations, and 20 Dell or equivalent workstations running Linux operating system.  Each computer has at least 40 Gbytes of disk space on average with data backup done centrally.  There are 3 Apple Macintosh computers in the laboratories and one Apple Macintosh computer in each investigator's office.  All workstations are connected via high-speed Internet.  The Department of Radiology facilities include a Silicon Graphics Power Onyx (R10,000 6 processors) with an Immersadesk and 500 Gbytes of disk space.

The Rossmann Laboratories have a Silicon Graphics Power Onyx (R10,000 multi-processors) that contains four 200 MHz processors with 1.5 gigabytes of RAM and 140 gigabytes of hard disk space.  The graphics hardware on the Onyx operates an Immersadesk for display of volume-rendered, virtual reality representations of CT data sets and computer detection output.   For image display, the Rossmann Laboratories have three 1k x 1k Imlogix CRT monitors, four 2k x 2k Megascan CRT monitors, six Seikosha gray-scale paper printers, two Konica laser film printers (2k x 2K), one Konica high-quality laser film printer (4k x 5K), and one Kodak high-quality laser film printer. 

 

 
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