Scientific Director: Robert M. Nishikawa, PhD
Technical Director: Chun Wai Chan, MS
Website: icar.bsd.uchicago.edu
The Image Computing, Analysis, and Repository (ICAR) Core Facility provides services for medical imaging, including a high-performance computer cluster and archival services for small animal imaging, in collaboration with other facilities.
ICAR provides researchers with free access to computers and storage and fee-based analysis services, supporting image acquisition, construction of databases, reconstruction techniques, image analysis (including computer-aided diagnosis), and technology assessment. The facility supports basic research involving modeling and simulations, applied research involving the development of new image-analysis methods, and the development of grid-based technologies.
Services
- Access to a high-performance computing system and scientific software packages (Mathematica, MATLAB, IDL, etc.)
- Access to parallel and grid computing applications and services
- Multiterabyte online storage and archiving for computing involving large datasets and for storage and retrieval of animal imaging data.
- Design of image analysis protocols suited to a specific preclinical imaging research application (fee)
- Development of image analysis software solutions (incorporating existing and/or newly developed applications) for utilization by cancer researchers (fee)
- Turnkey image analysis
