BIDAC is a Health Sciences Core facility providing advanced consulting services in AI, image analysis and computer vision to academic research groups and medical device startups. These application-oriented services leverage the expertise of the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, and therefore complement existing core research facilities.
BIDAC provides resources to support activities likely to have a sustainable impact on Utah research technology: by enhancing Utah-centered research capabilities, fostering collaborative multidisciplinary activities and/or generating new pilot results for grant submissions.
BIDAC provides resources to support activities likely to have a sustainable impact on Utah research technology: by enhancing Utah-centered research capabilities, fostering collaborative multidisciplinary activities and/or generating new pilot results for grant submissions.
Do you wonder how novel AI solutions can solve or enhance your applications (via machine learning, deep learning or generative AI)? Does your group regularly use imaging equipment (e.g. microscope, scanner) without a proper solution for image analysis? Do you need quantitative results from biomedical images for your scientific papers or grant applications? Do you need automated or more robust solutions for your ever-increasing datasets? BIDAC is ready to help you succeed in your research endeavors.
BIDAC services and hourly rates
BIDAC offers a range of services, leveraging AI, image analysis, computer vision and data science:
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Consulting to explore image analysis and visualization needs of biomedical projects.
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Building AI solutions, leveraging machine learning, deep learning or generative AI
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Developing end-to-end image processing workflows or software prototypes for health science projects
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Performing AI-driven image analysis, data science, or scientific visualizations for research projects
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Providing software support including maintenance, current documentation and training for a collection of software tools supporting university image and data analysis, as well as visualization needs
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Fostering cross-disciplinary collaborative efforts by organizing educational events and workshops including hands-on training sessions with joint discussions of driving biological and biomedical problems and computational solution strategies.
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Service |
Description |
Federal Rate |
Other Academic Rate |
External Rate |
| Consulting | Advice and direction on data and image processing, image analysis, software, scientific computing and scientific data visualization | $77 | $119 | $154 |
| Software Prototyping - Workflow Development |
Software development - Implementation of data, image analysis or visualization workflows from existing software tools | $73 | $113 | $146 |
| Algorithm - Research | Implementation of algorithms for scientific computing | $83 | $128 | $166 |
| Image Analysis - Basic | Manual and semi-automatic image segmentation, simple registration | $37 | $57 | $74 |
| Image Analysis - Advanced | Advanced imaging, AI and data science services | $69 | $106 | $138 |
| Image Analysis - Custom | Project-specific image analysis services | $82 | $126 | $164 |
| Training - Individual | Training and user support in the use of software for image segmentation, image registration, scientific computing or data visualization | $75 | $116 | $150 |
| Training - Group | Contact for pricing | Contact for pricing | Contact for pricing | |
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