Schedule of Events – Summer 2019

Schedule Subject to Change

All activities and events will be held in the Millennia Boardroom (room 723, CDM building, Loop campus) unless otherwise noted.

 

Monday June 17, 2019

REU Welcome, Introduction & Tutorials, Logistics (Orientation Day)

09:30 AM

10:00 AM

Breakfast

10:00 AM

10:45 AM

Welcome to CDM and DePaul —Dr. Miller, Dean of CDM

 

 

Overview of the summer program—Drs. Furst & Raicu

10:45 AM

11:15 AM

Mentors & Students Introductions

11:15 AM

12:15 PM

REU MedIX Experiences – Previous REU participants – Part I

Reilley Grant – REU Participant 2017

Chufan Gao – REU Participant 2018

Sam Berglin – REU Participant 2018

12:15 PM

02:00 PM

Lunch

02:00 PM

03:30 PM

Introduction to Image Processing – Dr. Furst

03:30 PM

04:00 PM

Logistics (email accounts, lab access, pictures)

 

 

Evaluation Process during the MedIX Program – Dr. Furst

 

 

Entry Survey of Expectations and Preferences I – online survey – REU students

04:00 PM

04:30 PM

Responsible conduct of research training, offered online by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) – Dr. Furst

04:30 PM

05:30 PM

Tour of SoC and of the DePaul Center – Dr. Furst

 

Tuesday June 18, 2019

Logistics, Tutorials, Research seminar and Research Training (Orientation Day)

08:30 AM

9:00 AM

Breakfast

09:00 AM

10:30 AM

Lab session: Introduction to Matlab and Image Processing in Matlab tutorial –Part I - Dr. Furst (room 819)

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Introduction to Data Mining and Machine Learning– Dr. Jonathan Gemmell

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Lunch

01:30 PM

3:00 PM

DePaul Project Descriptions – Dr. Gemmell

03:30 PM

04:30 PM

Developing a research career – Dr. Furst

04:30 PM

05:30 PM

Responsible conduct of research training, offered online by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) – Dr. Furst

 

Wednesday June 19, 2019

Project Descriptions and Visit to University of Chicago (Orientation Day)

09:30 AM

12:30 PM

Visit to University of Chicago (UofC)

Research Projects’ Descriptions – Dr. Armato & Dr. Carroll

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Lunch and Travel from University of Chicago to DePaul

2:00 PM

5:00 PM

Research Projects’ Descriptions –Dr. Furst and Dr. Raicu

 

Thursday June 20, 2019

Tutorials, Project Selection & Research seminar (Orientation Day)

08:30 AM

09:00 AM

Breakfast

09:00 AM

10:30 PM

Lab session: Introduction to Matlab and Image Processing in Matlab –Part II - Dr. Furst (room 819)

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Lab session: Introduction to SPSS - Dr. Raicu (room 819)

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

REU MedIX Experiences – Previous REU participants – Part II

(Dante Dettori Dante Chakravorti, REU Participant 2018)

12:30 PM

02:00 PM

Lunch

02:00 PM

03:00 PM

Open Discussion/ Project Assignment

03:00 PM

04:30 PM

Retrieving and reading research papers – Dr. Raicu

04:30 PM

05: 30 PM

Introduction to Deep learning – Dr. Gemmell

 

Friday June 21, 2019

Lab work and team meetings

09:00 AM

05:00 PM

Lab Work and team meetings at UofC and DePaul

 

Friday June 28, 2019

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar

09:00 AM

01:30 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul (UofC students go to UofC until 12:30pm and then come to DePaul)

01:30 PM

05:30 PM

Group meeting at  DePaul

01:30 PM

2:30 PM

pizza lunch and progress report: a) the problem you are working on (including goals for the project), b) motivation for the problem, and c) some interesting facts you discovered (1) about the data based your preliminary analysis of the data and (2) papers you read so far;

02:30 PM

3:00 PM

Paper presentation: "Distributed representations of words and phrases and their compositionality" by Elisa and Alex

03:00 PM

04:00 PM

How to give a research presentation – Dr. Gemmell

04:00 PM

05:00 PM

Creating TED-style Talks - Dr. Gemmell

 

Tuesday July 2, 2019

Lab work and visit to UofC (room Q 207)

02:30 PM

04:30 PM

Imaging Modalities lecture at UofC (Dr. Armato)

 

Friday July 5, 2019

Lab work, REU group meeting, and Survey

09:00 AM

01:30 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

01:30 PM

05:00 PM

Group meeting at  DePaul

01:30 PM

02:30 PM

pizza lunch and progress report: a) (refined) goals for the project, b) research hypothesis, c) literature review – part 1, and d) preliminary data analysis

 

 

Survey

02:30 PM

03:00 PM

MedIX Team II paper presentation and discussion, "Automated assessment of early hypoxic brain edema in non-enhanced CT predicts outcome in patients after cardiac arrest" by Ashely and Nicole

03:00 PM

04:00 PM

Graduate Funding - Dr. Furst

04:00 PM

05:00 PM

How to write a research paper – Dr. Furst

 

Thursday July 9, 2019

02:30 PM

04:30 PM

Imaging Modalities lecture at UofC (Dr. Armato)

 

Friday July 12, 2019

09:00 AM

01:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

01:00 PM

05:00 PM

Group meeting at  DePaul

01:00 PM

02: 00 PM

pizza lunch and progress report: a) any new relevant literature review, b) methodology, c) preliminary results

02:00 PM

02:30 PM

MedIX Team II paper presentation and discussion, "Automated assessment of early hypoxic brain edema in non-enhanced CT predicts outcome in patients after cardiac arrest" by Ashely and Nicole

02:30 PM

03:00 PM

Travel to IIT

03:00 PM

05:00 PM

“A day in the life of a PhD student” – event by REU site @IIT

Speakers:

Roselyne Tchoua, recent PhD graduate from University of Chicago

Yiyang Wang, PhD student at DePaul University since 09/2018

Brian Tauro, PhD student at IIT since 09/2018

 

Saturday July 13, 2019 

Picnic @ Gillson Park, Wilmette, 3PM

REU students, graduate students and faculty from DePaul, UofC, IIT

Picnic Pictures: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0w5tzEA5ckJfO

 

Tuesday July 16, 2019

02:30 PM

04:00 PM

Imaging Modalities lecture at UofC: CT (Dr. La Riviere)

 

Friday July 19, 2019

Survey and midterm presentations

08:30 AM

09:00 AM

Breakfast (Room 723, CDM building)

09:00 AM

09:45 AM

Presentation 1: “Applying Topic Modeling Techniques to Detect Trends in Mental Health Discussion”

Elise Glaser (Colorado College)

Alex Morain (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Mentor: Dr. Gemmell

09:45 AM

10:30 AM

Presentation 2: “Modelling Uncertainty in Medical Reports”

Yilan Dong (Grinnell College)

Kathleen Isenegger (Amherst College)

Mentor: Dr. Furst

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Break

10:40 AM

11:25 AM

Presentation 3: “Predicting Age-Related Macular Degeneration Disease from SD-OCT Images Using Machine Learning”

Abum Okemgbo (University of Pennsylvania)

David Rein (Duke University)

Mentor: Dr. Raicu

11:25 PM

12:10 PM

Presentation 4: “Radiomics-Based Texture Analysis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”

Ahmed Rashid (Valencia College, Rollins College)

Jorie Budzikowski (Vanderbilt University)

Mentor: Dr. Armato

12:15 PM

01:15 PM

Lunch (DePaul Center 11013)

01:10 PM

02:00 PM

Presentation 5: “Medical Imaging: Predicting Comatose Patient Outcomes”

Ashley Sjurson (University of Iowa)

Nicole Kuznetsov (University of Rochester)

Mentor Dr. Carroll

02:00 PM

02:20 PM

Presentation 6: “Machine Learning for User Experience Design” Ally Theodorescu (DePaul University)

Yan Yu (DePaul University)

Mentor Dr. Raicu

02:20 PM

02:30 PM

Survey (Room 723)

 

Thursday July 26, 2019

Visit to Argonne National Labs

08:15 AM

08:45 AM

Arrive at Argonne visitor center to pick up badge

08:45 AM

09:00 AM

Meet in Building 240, Room 1406/1407

Introductions [Ioan Raicu & Kyle Chard]

09: 00 AM

10:00 AM

Building 240, Room 4312

Visualization Lab Tour with Joseph Insley

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

Building 240, Room 2208

Tour of ALCF machine room

11:00 AM

02:30 PM

Building 240, Room 2208

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

Research Talks: Bogdan Nicolae and Joaquin Chung

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

Lunch/Pizza

12:30 PM

01:30 PM

Computer Science Focused Competitions [Ioan Raicu]

01:30 PM

02:00 PM

Research Talk [Rob Latham]

02:00 PM

02:30 PM

Leave for APS Building (with cars)

03:00 PM

05:00 PM

Building 401, Lobby

05:00 PM

 

Adjourn

 

Friday July 26, 2019

Lab work, REU group meeting

09:00 AM

01:00 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

01:00 PM

02:45 PM

Pizza lunch, progress report: a) methodology, b) results, and c) TED talks

02:45 PM

03:15 PM

MedIX Team 3 paper presentation:

Individual Drusen Segmentation and Repeatability and Reproducibility of Their Automated Quantification in Optical Coherence Tomography Images” by Abum and David

03:15 PM

03:30 PM

Break

03:30 PM

05:30 PM

Women in Science and Technology Panel

Speakers: Dr. Rujia Wang (Assistant Professor at IIT)

Dr. Sheena Erete (Associate Professor at DePaul)

Dr. Irina Matveeva (Head of Machine Learning, NexLP & Adjunct Professor at IIT)

 

Tuesday July 30, 2019

02:30 PM

04:00 PM

Imaging Modalities lecture at UofC: MRI (Dr. Carroll)

 

Friday August 2, 2019

NSF REU MedIX Program 15 Year Anniversary

9:30 AM

10:00 AM

Breakfast

10:00 AM

10:15 AM

Opening Remarks and Introductions:

Dr. Salma Ghanem, Provost, DePaul University

Dr. Harriet Taylor, Program Director, National Science Foundation

10:15AM

12:15 PM

REU student presentations

10:15AM

10:40AM

Medical Imaging: Predicting Comatose Patient Outcomes

Students: Ashley Sjurson (University of Iowa)

Nicole Kuznetsov (University of Rochester)

Mentor: Dr. Carroll

10:40 PM

11:05 AM

Predicting Age-Related Macular Degeneration Disease from SD-OCT Images

Students: Abum Okemgbo (University of Pennsylvania)

David Rein (Duke University)

Mentor: Dr. Raicu

11:05 AM

11:30 AM

Radiomics-Based Texture Analysis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Students: Ahmed Rashid (Valencia College, Rollins College)

Jorie Budzikowski (Vanderbilt University)

Mentor: Dr. Armato

11:30 AM

11:35 AM

Break

11:35 AM

12:00 PM

Modelling Uncertainty in Medical Reports

Students: Yilan Dong (Grinnell College)

Kathleen Isenegger (Amherst College)

Mentor: Dr. Furst

12:00 PM

12: 25 PM

Applying Topic Modeling Techniques to Detect Trends in Mental Discussion

Students: Elise Glaser (Colorado College)

Alex Morain (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Mentor: Dr. Gemmell

12:30 PM

02:30 PM

Lunch and Invited talks (DePaul Center Room 11013):

Dr. Harriet Taylor, Program Director, National Science Foundation

Dr. Daniela Raicu & Jacob Furst, Overview of the MedIX Program & DePaul

Dr. Sam Armato, Overview of the MedIX Program & The University of Chicago

Dr. Jonathan Gemmell, Dr. Lucia Dettori, Dr. Sheena Erete (Mentoring experiences)

02:30 PM

03:00 PM

MedIX Team 4 paper presentation:

“CT Imaging Phenotypes of Pulmonary Fibrosis in the MUC5B Promoter Site Polymorphism” by Jorie and Ahmed

03:00 PM

05:00 PM

Workshop Session: Preparing a successful NSF Graduate Fellowship Application

 

Tuesday August 6, 2019

02:30 PM

04:00 PM

Imaging Modalities lecture at UofC: Texture analysis and machine learning (Dr. Giger)

01:30 PM

05:00 PM

Group meeting at DePaul (CDM Room 723)

01:30 PM

03:00 PM

Pizza lunch and progress report: a) detailed results and how they relate to your research questions/hypothesis, 2) research plan for the last two weeks, and 3) TED-style presentations.

03:00 PM

03:30 PM

MedIX Team 5 paper presentation: “The BioScope corpus: biomedical texts annotated for uncertainty, negation and their scopes” by Kathleen and Yilan

03:30 PM

03:45 PM

Break

03:45 PM

04:00 PM

Poster presentation – first draft (Abum and Ashley)

04:00 PM

05:00 PM

Professional and student organizations (Dr. Gemmell)

Friday August 9, 2019

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminars

09:00 AM

01:30 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

01:30 PM

05:00 PM

Group meeting at  DePaul

01:30 PM

02:30 PM

MedIX teams progress report

02:30 PM

03:00 PM

Paper Presentation by MedIX Team V

03:00 PM

03:30 PM

Unveiling of poster draft

03:30 PM

05:00 PM

Student organizations and professional organizations (Dr. Gemmell)

 

Friday August 16, 2019

Lab work, REU group meeting and seminar + survey

09:00 AM

01:30 PM

Lab work at UofC and DePaul

01:30 PM

05:00 PM

Group meeting at DePaul (CDM Room 723)

01:30 PM

03:00 PM

Lunch and Progress report: provide an overview of your research, hypotheses, and summary of your results on how they relate to your research questions/hypothesis; final Ted-style presentations

03:00 PM

03:30 PM

Survey week 9 & poster last draft review

03:30 PM

05:00 PM

Research @CDM; Moderators: Alex & Ahmed

 

Friday August 23, 2019

Final Presentation and Deliverables

09:00 AM

09:30 AM

Breakfast (Room 723, CDM building)

09:30 AM

10:05 AM

Predicting Age-Related Macular Degeneration Disease from SD-OCT Images

Students: Abum Okemgbo (University of Pennsylvania)

David Rein (Duke University)

Mentor: Dr. Raicu

10:05 AM

10:40 AM

Radiomics-Based Texture Analysis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Students: Ahmed Rashid (Valencia College, Rollins College)

Jorie Budzikowski (Vanderbilt University)

Mentor: Dr. Armato

10:40 AM

11:15 AM

Medical Imaging: Predicting Comatose Patient Outcomes

Students: Ashley Sjurson (University of Iowa)

Nicole Kuznetsov (University of Rochester)

Mentor: Dr. Carroll

11:15 AM

11:20 AM

Break

11:20 AM

11:55 AM

Applying Topic Modeling Techniques to Detect Trends in Mental Discussion

Students: Elise Glaser (Colorado College)

Alex Morain (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Mentor: Dr. Gemmell

11:55 AM

12:30 PM

Modelling Uncertainty in Medical Reports

Students: Yilan Dong (Grinnell College)

Kathleen Isenegger (Amherst College)

Mentor: Dr. Furst

12:30 PM

02:00 PM

Lunch (Exchequer Restaurant)

02:00 PM

05:00 PM

Deliverables and individual student interview