University of Kentucky

This Early Career Development grant will provide support for Assistant Professor Sujin Kim to study four different existing methods of describing and representing medical pathology images, leading to one standardized descriptive framework so that clinicians and medical researchers can more readily share information about these images. The researcher will convene focus groups of experts from both the medical and information professions to inform the model, test that model against industry standards for pathologic imaging properties, and evaluate its effectiveness in data retrieval. This project will extend librarianship’s knowledge and skills to a non-traditional library “collection,” while significantly aiding medical imaging through the creation of an integrated standard that will foster seamless searching across different image storage systems.