The Medical Informatics (MedIX) program’s main objectives are to encourage talented undergraduates to pursue graduate education and to expose students to interdisciplinary research, especially at the border of information technology and medicine.

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All of the projects on which students will work are inspired by state-of-the-art research questions in imaging informatics.  Students will work as part of faculty-undergraduate teams on new problems ranging from traditional image processing (e.g. liver segmentation and computer-aided diagnosis, breast density assessment for cancer detection) to structured reporting and natural language processing of radiology reports, to workflow and process re-engineering to the application of data mining and ontology-based means for image annotation and markup (e.g. lung nodule detection and interpretation). Ultimately, each project has the long-term potential to increase the quality of healthcare available to people everywhere.

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Faculty mentors will conduct tutorials on imaging informatics, conduct biweekly meetings of students and mentors, and create an environment that will expose students to all phases of research and graduate school.  Students will participate in defining the direction of their research, give presentations to the group as well as other audiences, write up  and publish research results in the format of a conference or journal article, and participate in relevant conferences.

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The MedIX REU site will be hosted by two interdisciplinary laboratories: the Medical Informatics Laboratory at DePaul University and the Imaging Research Institute at the University of Chicago; the research environment will offer the students the opportunity to interact with computer scientists, medical physicists, and medical doctors.

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Summer Support for Each Student:

• $7,000 stipend (paid a weekly stipend of $700 for each of the 10 weeks)
• $500 travel support to/from the REU site at the beginning/end of the program
• $2,515 subsistence allowance (includes full expected housing costs and food allowance)
• Housing on campus will be arranged for all students

• US citizenship or permanent residency

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• Full-time undergraduate student with at least 1 year of college/university course work completed as of September 1st 2024

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• Students are not allowed to have other jobs/internships during the REU program or to be registered for any courses

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