OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics

BMI at AMIA

Wednesday 11/07/2007

The mission of The Ohio State University Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is to be the worldwide leader in discovering, creating, and applying leading-edge biomedical informatics innovations to improve individuals' lives through personalized healthcare.

BMI applies distributed and parallel computing techniques to data retrieval and integration, imaging, simulation, medical informatics, computational biology, and comparative genomics. The Department's Multiscale Computing Lab specializes in applying advanced computer science methodology to biomedical software development. BMI develops middleware, such as caGrid and CVRG, to enable Grid computing in the biological, medical, and physical sciences. These research efforts have resulted in innovations in the areas of

  1. runtime support for distributed data processing and management,
  2. optimized data distribution and indexing techniques,
  3. strategies for efficient querying and processing of data in distributed environments,
  4. grid based security frameworks and
  5. tools to hide the complexity associated with developing grid applications.

BMI was created in 2001. Over the past five years, BMI has grown to eight faculty and over thirty students and staff. Since its inception, BMI has exceeded traditional expectations in the OSU College of Medicine and significantly increased its productivity in terms of extramural funding and publications each year. Much of this success has been built on research begun in the early 1990s by Dr. Joel Saltz, who has served as the first chair of the Department since its creation in 2001. Dr. Saltz research has brought international recognition to the University in biomedical informatics.

Sunday November 11, 2007 3:30pm – 5:00pm

Dr. Philip Payne is going to present the Challenges and Opportunities in the Clinical Research Informatics field at a panel session (S02).

Monday November 12, 2007 10:00am – 2:00pm

BMI is going to be present for the following poster sessions:

  • A Framework for Workflow-based Clinical Research Billing Disambiguation (Dr. Joel Saltz, Dr. Philip Payne, and Tara Payne) download PDF
  • Development of an Ontology-Anchored Data Warehouse Meta-Model (Dr. Philip Payne and Tara Payne) download PDF

Dr. Philip Payne is going to present the following topics during the paper sessions:

  • Identifying Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical Research Informatics: Analysis of a Facilitated Discussion at the 2006 AMIA Annual Symposium (S20 Clinical Research informatics)
  • Modeling Participant-Related Clinical Research Events Using Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition Techniques (S20 Clinical Research informatics) download PPT

Tuesday November 13, 2007 10:00am – 2:00pm

BMI is going to be present for the following poster discussions:

  • Evaluating an NLP-Based Approach to Modeling Computable Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria (Dr. Philip Payne and Tara Payne) download PDF
  • Integrating Heterogeneous Rules-Engine Technologies with caGrid (Dr. Joel Saltz, and Dr. Philip Payne) download PDF

Wednesday November 14, 2007

Justin Permar is going to present The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Security Infrastructure in a paper session for the Security and Privacy – System Architecture and Design category (S95).

Here is a list of interested links documenting the projects from our faculty and staff:

Clinical Translational Research

Genetic Surveillance of Infectious Disease

CVRG Imaging

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