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Vasant Honavar, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, and collaborators Craig Fontenot (an ISU alumnus), and Peter Demitry of Collaborative Health Solutions (CHS), LLC, Austin, TX, have received a 2011 Grow Iowa Values Fund Grant of $109,243 from the State of Iowa (to be matched dollar for dollar by CHS, LLC) to pursue R&D efforts in Health Informatics. 

Wallapak Tavanapong and Johnny Wong have worked for the past three years conducting research in advanced retrieval and analysis of videos from endoscopic procedures for important clinical content. The two computer scientists are collaborating with a medical doctor at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and another computer scientist at the University of Texas at Arlington. The project is expected to provide a number of benefits to medicine: post-procedure review, training tool, and performance review. An impact could be felt in Iowa and in a few years the technology may well spread all over the world.