Jelena Kovacevic and Robert F. Murphy, Directors
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Bioimage Informatics draws upon advances in signal processing,
optics, probe chemistry, molecular biology and machine learning to provide
answers to biological questions from the growing numbers of biological
images acquired in digital form. Microscopy is one of the oldest biological
methods, and for centuries it has been paired with visual interpretation to
learn about biological phenomena. With the advent of sensitive digital
cameras and the dramatic increase in computer processing speeds over the
past two decades, it has become increasingly common to collect large volumes
of biological image data that create a need for sophisticated image
processing and analysis. In addition, dramatic advances in machine learning
during the same period set the stage for converting imaging from an
observational to a computational discipline and allow the direct generation
of biological knowledge from images. Hence our slogan: "from image to
knowledge."
The Center for Bioimage Informatics (CBI) at Carnegie Mellon was founded
as a result of a $9.4 million, five-year, multi-institution Information
Technology Research grant from the National Science Foundation. The
project is led by B. S. Manjunath at the University
of California, Santa Barbara and Robert F. Murphy at Carnegie Mellon.
The CBI is directed by Professor Murphy and Professor Jelena Kovacevic.
The initial focus of the CBI will be on fluorescence microscope imaging,
but the Center is envisaged to grow to encompass work on all biomedical
imaging modalities, such as microMRI. Moreover, it is anticipated that
the Center will become a focal point of image informatics in the
Pittsburgh area.
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