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The National Institutes of Health recently granted four awards to national centers for biomedical computing to build stronger computer resources for imaging and biomedical research. The Surgical Planning Laboratory, under the leadership of Ron Kikinis, MD, principal investigator and director, was chosen as the recipient of a five-year, $19.2 million grant to lead the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC). The grant will be used toward the development of software to extract valuable disease information from imaging data.
NAMIC will develop, integrate and deploy computer systems that can be easily used, accessed and shared by scientists to advance medicine and patient care. “Our vision is to equip researchers to use the power of modern imaging machines to characterize diseases, find them faster and work together in examining new treatment methods,” said Kikinis.