[BMIT Roster]

The Biomedical Imaging Technology [BMIT] Scientific Review Group reviews grant applications involving basic, applied, and pre-clinical aspects of the design and development of medical imaging systems, their components, software, and mathematical methods; as well as related technologies, for studies at the organ, small or large animal, and human scale.

Specific areas covered by BMIT:

• Component technologies used in the design, development, implementation, testing and application of imaging systems, such as: image detectors and related energy conversion devices, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation detectors, magnets and coils, and other technologies used in devices to acquire medical image data.
  
  
• Physics and mathematics of medical imaging devices and systems for hardware and software development: application of methods of applied mathematics for solving inverse problems using iterative, non-iterative, deterministic and probabilistic approaches; and analysis of complex dynamical systems.
  
  
• Methods of processing medical images: display, and computational resources for reconstruction, registration, segmentation, visualization, and analysis of 2-, 3-, and 4- (or higher) dimensional data sets.
  
  
• Medical image analysis used in conjunction with other sources of image and non-image data, including: multi-media data, data transmitted and archived in databases for data mining, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and computer-aided diagnosis.
  
  
• Presentation for human observers, images derived from voluminous multi-dimensional data sets by visualization, including: man-machine interfaces; real-time interactive systems; multi-modality fusion; multi-temporal data sets; and workstation software and hardware design, implementation, and psychophysical testing.
  
  
• Development of image-based methods and strategies to characterize tissue by deriving estimates of their local and global biophysical, biochemical, biological, and imaging properties.
  
  
• Image-guided surgical or physical interventions that require high performance computing and display of images for interactive man-machine environments that simultaneously, or sequentially, diagnose, plan, treat, update, and follow-up.
  
  
• Integration of imaging system component technologies with one or multiple modalities, (including high performance computing environments and software) to accomplish specific medical tasks.
  
  
• Methodology for validating medical imaging systems including: reference objects, databases, quality control criteria, software metrics, and related components.
  
  
• Medical-image-observer performance: modeling, metrics, calibration, standards, and simulation of an ideal observe using principles of psychophysical experimentation.

BMIT has the following shared interests within the SBIB IRG:

• With Medical Imaging [MEDI]: (1) Where emphasis is on the development of molecular probes, contrast agents, or molecular imaging techniques, the application would be referred to MEDI; where emphasis is on the design or development of medical imaging systems, their components, or software the application would be referred to BMIT. (2) Where equipment, software and technique development are underway simultaneous with the development, evaluation, and validation of the imaging application.  In general, proposals that emphasize the application or validation of in vivo imaging approaches would be referred to MEDI; those that emphasize the design or development of medical imaging systems, their components, or software would be referred to BMIT.

BMIT has the following shared interests outside the SBIB IRG:

• With the Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies [BST] IRG: The development of instrumentation, techniques, or procedures for imaging molecules or organelles is an area of shared interest.  If the purpose of imaging is to address questions of pathology, diagnosis, or treatment assignment would be to BMIT.  If the objective of the imaging is to investigate mechanisms or fundamental biological questions, assignment would be to the BST IRG.
  
  
• With organ-system and disease IRGs: Review venue should be based on the nature of the scientific questions being addressed.  In general, applications for which the emphasis is on the design or development of medical imaging systems, their components, or software would be referred to BMIT; where the emphasis is on obtaining structural, functional, or behavioral information the application would be referred to an organ-system or disease IRG.