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Robert F. Murphy and Ivet Bahar, Directors

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Bioimage Informatics Specialization Area

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 increasing 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.

Required Life Sciences Electives (any one of the following)

CMU 03-533 NMR in Biomedical Sciences
CMU 03-534 Biological Imaging and Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Required Quantitative Elective (any one of the following)

Pitt BIOINF 2101 Probabilistic Methods for Computer Based Decision Support
Pitt BIOST 2015 Elements of Statistical Learning
CMU 10-702 Statistical Machine Learning
CMU 10-708 Probabilistic Graphical Models
CMU 15-750 Algorithms
CMU 15-853 Algorithms in the Real World
CMU 18-798 Image and Video Processing
CMU 36-705 Intermediate Statistics

Specialization Electives (any two of the following)

CMU 16-725 Methods in Medical Image Analysis
CMU 42-731 Advanced Bioimage Informatics
CMU 42-735 Medical Image Analysis
CMU 42-708Special Topics: Registration Problems in Bioimaging
Pitt BIOE 2600/
CMU 42-709
Neuroimaging