Advancing Medical Imaging Software with Machine Learning for NIH-Supported Research

Project Summary/Abstract The goal of this application is to support Alan Morris, MS, as a Research Software Engineer at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. He works primarily on research software supported by NIH grants under the direction of Drs. Shireen Elhabian and Andrew Anderson. The primary focus of his work is the development of software for medical image and shape analysis and in supporting the research of the faculty and students at the SCI Institute. This Research Specialist Award would allow 3 years of funding to maintain protected time for Mr. Morris to work on supporting NIH-related research software projects with the particular focus of enhancing them with robust machine learning support and infrastructure. The results of this work will be disseminated through open-source software releases, peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, and presentations at local and national meetings.