VIDA / MedIX / IMP Labs (CDM-011)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Sub-unit: School of Computing
- Content Type: center
- Campus/Location: Loop
- Last Verified: July 1, 2026
Description & capabilities
Vision, medical informatics, and multimedia analytics capabilities with visualization support. IMP and MedIX labs support biomedical and healthcare informatics research (see NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities). External biomedical partners documented under External Partners unit (EXT-009, EXT-010, EXT-011) and UNI-012 (CCHE).
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: VIDA/MedIX/IMP research pages describe capabilities but not campus-wide access rules; health-data and imaging workflows require lab or project affiliation.
- Access URL: www.depaul.edu/faculty/daniela-stan-raicu
- Verification date: 2026-07-01
- Source URLs:
- www.depaul.edu/faculty/daniela-stan-raicu
- facweb.cdm.depaul.edu/research/vc
Verification
- Status: confirmed (
âś“) - Confidence: 90/100
- Rationale: Legacy evidence aligned with kernel provenance (depaul/XTR-000076); primary source: https://www.depaul.edu/faculty/daniela-stan-raicu
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
- Evidence:
- She is the co-director of the Medical Informatics and the Intelligent Multimedia Processing Laboratories. (https://www.depaul.edu/faculty/daniela-stan-raicu)
- Supplementary lab reference: https://facweb.cdm.depaul.edu/research/vc/
Equipment
Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).
| Category | Specific equipment |
|---|---|
| VR, AR, and XR | VR visualization tools |
| Creative workstations | High-resolution visualization displays; IMP Lab workstations (6) — Intel, 64 GB RAM, NVIDIA GPUs; MedIX Lab workstations (8) — similar high-end spec |
| GPU compute | NVIDIA GPU workstations — IMP Lab (per NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities) |
| Microscopy | Medical imaging analysis pipelines (neuroscience, ophthalmology, radiology datasets) |
Related equipment categories
Taxonomy bridges to related capability elsewhere on campus (search these terms or open the catalog anchors):
- Clinical assessment instruments
- Clinical simulation mannequins and manikins
- Clinical simulation software
Equipment access (via linked resources)
| Resource | Notes |
|---|---|
| CSH-022 | Nursing Health Assessment Lab optics / simulation — related clinical imaging and ophthalmology adjacency (capability bridge; not a documented collaboration) |
| UNI-015 | BETA Neuro-Business Lab — related human-measurement / visualization adjacency |
Source: VIDA group; NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities IMP/MedIX specs (May 2026). Last verified: July 29, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: VIDA Group
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Daniela Raicu (Director) — dstan@depaul.edu · Profile
- Thiru Ramaraj (Faculty lead) — Profile
Source URL
Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
Linked to imaging and analytics collaborations across units; affiliated with CDM-025 (Center for Data Science) and sibling lab CDM-024 (CoBaAB); Steans Family Foundation housing analytics via EXT-005; biomedical partners EXT-009, EXT-010, EXT-011; UNI-012 (CCHE). Related clinical / human-measurement adjacency (capability bridges): CSH-022 Nursing Simulation Lab, UNI-015 BETA Hub.
Linked Relationship IDs
- CDM-025 - DePaul Center for Data Science
- CDM-024 - Computational Biology & Applied Bioinformatics (CoBaAB) Lab
- UNI-003 - SPARK Center
- UNI-007 - Steans Family Foundation Projects
- UNI-012 - Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE)
- EXT-005 - Steans Family Foundation
- EXT-009 - Sinai Urban Health Institute — Sinai Chicago
- EXT-010 - Rush University
- EXT-011 - Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS)
- UNI-019 - Institute for Housing Studies (IHS)
- CSH-022 - DePaul Simulation Lab — School of Nursing
- UNI-015 - Business Education in Technology & Analytics (BETA) Hub
Notes
Grouped labs entry. ORS annual reports document NSF MedIX REU Site awards (e.g. GRA-052, GRA-055, GRA-407) with explicit MedIX facility naming — grant→facility edges GRL-013, GRL-015, GRL-016; evidence in sources/inbox/2026-06-14-ors-annual-reports-2020-2025/.