SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Multiple Image Components with Spatial
- Notice Date
- 9/11/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 07-192-CYC
- Response Due
- 9/26/2007
- Archive Date
- 10/11/2007
- Description
- It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to procure professional services from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (D.J. Lee) on a sole source basis. Period of Performance will for a one year period. Professional services over a 12-month period for (i) R&D into CBIR techniques for query and retrieval of multiple images components simultaneously with support for spatial geometrical constraints and relationships; (ii) API development resulting from this effort enabling Web deployment; (iii) redevelopment of prior related work into MATLAB of Java; and (iv) provide medical segmentation of 600 images of the digitized spine from NHANES II. Dr. D.J. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. He received his B.S.E.E. from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 1984 and his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Prior to joining BYU in 2001, he served in the machine vision industry for over eleven years as system designer, researcher, and technical and project manager. His last employment prior to joining BYU was with Robotic Vision System Inc. (RVSI) where he served as the Director of Vision Technology and was responsible of designing the state-of-the-art high speed semiconductor chip and wafer inspection systems. He has designed over 40 real-time machine vision systems and products for various industries including automotive, medical, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, surveillance, and military, etc. His hands-on experience includes project costs and budget management, computer vision and image processing algorithms development, large-scale software system implementation, hardware design, and system integration. He has applied, received, and managed many research grants from federal government agencies as well as private sectors. His current research focus at BYU is in content-based medical image retrieval, shape-based pattern recognition, relevance feedback, medical image analysis, biomedical informatics, robot vision, motion analysis, and object tracking. Dr. Lee spent the summer of 2002 working with the researchers in the Communications Engineering Branch at National Library of Medicine on the content-based spine x-ray image retrieval project. He successfully evaluated and implemented several shape representation and matching methods and obtained and delivered valuable results. Since September 2003, Dr. Lee's research team has provided services in developing partial shape matching algorithms for content-based spine x-ray image retrieval project for the Communications Engineering Branch at National Library of Medicine. The recent project his team performed is on improving the retrieval system to allow the users to provide relevance feedback. The development project is near completion and Dr. Lee's team will be able to accomplish their tasks before the deadline. In collaboration with the researchers at NLM, he has since submitted and/or published eleven technical papers as author or co-author on content-based image retrieval of spine x-ray images and relevance feedback. Dr. Lee is uniquely qualified for this research work because of his understanding of the project, extensive experience in content-based image retrieval and relevance feedback, and thorough understanding of the characteristics of the image data. The proposed acquisition will be procured under FAR Part 13 - Acquisitions of Non- Commercial Items. This is not a Request for Quotations (RFQ), nor is an RFQ available. However, all responsive sources may submit a capabilities statement in a timely manner that will be considered by the Government. Sources interested in responding to this notice must be able to provide convincing evidence that they possess the requisite expertise and experience to successfully perform the services as specified above. Responses must be in writing and must be received in the office within fifteen (15) business days from the publication date of this notice. Proposals must include pricing information. NLM Synopsis No. NLM 07-192/CYC. Inquires regarding this procurement may be made to Cara Y. Calimano, Contract Specialist, NLM on (301) 496-6546.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD
- Zip Code: 20894
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20894
- Record
- SN01402080-W 20070913/070911220419 (fbodaily.com)
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