BiCLab

Medical Imaging

How can we see inside live human bodies? This age-old question became answerable since the discovery of X-ray. Since then many modalities of imaging has been invented for non-invasively viewing different aspects of biology within human. Most of them use physical heterogeneity inside body to visualize anatomy.

One modality stands out that targets biochemical functioning in the body to visualize physiology rather than anatomy by using gamma ray generated from radioactive tracer administrated to persons. It is nuclear imaging, that uses both well-designed chemical agents modified with replaced radioactive atoms within the molecules of the agent. In BiCLab (Biocomputing) at Florida Tech, we primarily work on nuclear imaging.

What We Are and What We Do

BiCLab focuses on the design of algorithms in critical areas of biomedicine to improve human health. Current areas of research interests span medical imaging and computational molecular biology. There are three main projects in the lab now:

1. Dynamic nuclear imaging that uses dynamics of the radiotracer to elicit better physiology than conventional medical imaging
2. Deep learning-based tomographic image reconstruction that produces 3D images of body from 2D camera views
3. Developing faster algorithms to identify short and long distance mutations in bio-sequences

It is established with the support of National Institutes of Health. The lab collaborates with multiple national and international partners including University of California - San Francisco, Lawrence Berkeley National lab, Duke University, and Cardiff University, UK. We also do some fun stuff outside biology and medicine - please check our publications page. Almost all research involves students from Florida Tech, both at graduate and undergraduate levels.