Informatics Research

Areas of Interest

• next-generation RIS and PACS
• knowledge representation
• indexing and retrieval of images and metadata
• cost-effective use of diagnostic medical imaging procedures
• probabilistic reasoning:  Bayesian networks and decision-theoretic planning
• Internet-based systems and computer-supported collaborative work
• just-in-time learning

Projects

 

BANTER - Bayesian Network Tutoring and Explanation

BANTER provides a high-level user interface for Bayesian-network models, generates English-language explanations from probabilistic knowledge, and creates tutorial problems for instructional use.

 

BIG - BioInformatics Glossary

A comprehensive hypermedia glossary of bioinformatics has been created to help students and practitioners learn, integrate, and advance the concepts of the new science of bioinformatics.

 

CHORUS - Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology

CHORUS provides an electronic medical handbook of more than 1,100 documents for physicians and medical students worldwide. Physicians can read, contribute, and review documents via the World Wide Web.

 

DRIPS - Decision-theoretic Refinement Planning System

DRIPS is a decision-theoretic planner that efficiently identifies optimal plans based on a user-defined utility function and a set of available probabilistic actions grouped into an abstraction/decomposition hierarchy.

 

GoldMiner™ - Image Search Engine

ARRS GoldMiner™ provides rapid search into a large, Internet-based library of peer-reviewed radiology images.

 

ISIS - Intelligent Selection of Imaging Studies

ISIS is a decision support system that helps primary-care physicians order the most cost-effective diagnostic imaging studies.

 

MammoNet - Mammography Decision Support

A Bayesian-network model of breast disease assists mammographers in formulating diagnoses and planning additional diagnostic procedures.

 

PACSpulse

PACSpulse tracks DICOM traffic on an enterprise network to analysis performance and identify bottlenecks.

 

RadLex

RadLex provides a uniform structure for capturing, indexing, and retrieving a variety of radiology information sources, such as teaching files, research data, and radiology reports.

 

SIIM Expert Hotline

An online knowledge management system built for the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine provides rapid access to expert advice.

 

SPIDER - Structured Reporting

SPIDER uses platform-independent, public-domain technologies, such as the World Wide Web, to achieve structured entry of medical data.

 

TEMPO - Just-in-Time Learning in Radiology

TEMPO brings context-sensitive "just-in-time" learning to radiologists' workstations.