Welcome to the UT Biomedical Informatics Lab in The University of Texas Department of Biomedical Engineering. UT BME is an inter-institutional department combining the strengths of The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Under the direction of Dr. Mia K. Markey, the mission of the Biomedical Informatics Lab (BMIL) is to design cost-effective, computational decision aids. The BMIL develops decision support systems for clinical decision making and scientific discovery using artificial intelligence and signal processing technologies. The BMIL's research portfolio also includes research in biometrics.
The BMIL has a strong translational emphasis and all of the projects have the potential to develop into commercial and/or clinical products within a 10-15 year time frame. Examples of current BMIL projects include computational decision aids for interpreting biomedical spectra (e.g., polarized reflectance spectroscopy, enhanced polarization-sensitive OCT) and images (e.g., mammography, 3D surface scans), biometrics for 3D face recognition, and computational methods for identifying biomarkers from genomic and proteomic analyses.