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'''[[Bioimage informatics]]''' is a multidisciplinary sub-field of [[bioinformatics]] and computational biology that involves the development and use of computational techniques to analyze bioimages, especially cellular and molecular images, on a large scale fashion, with the goal of mining useful knowledge out of complicated and heterogeneous images and related metadata.
The '''[[United States Department of Health and Human Services]]''' ('''HHS'''), also known as the '''Health Department''', is a cabinet-level department of the Federal government of the United States with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW).


The field of bioimage informatics is somewhat related to [[Imaging informatics|medical imaging informatics]], in so much as some of the advances in that field have found their way to the technology of analyzing bioimages. However, "it is very challenging to directly apply existing medical image analysis methods to ... bioimage informatics problems." Some of the challenges bioimages pose to researchers include the difficulty of analyzing at the cellular and molecular scales, the large size of the files, and the amount of time required to manually analyze the files. These challenges require automatic high-throughput analysis techniques, novel algorithms, and advanced systems to deal with the tasks of processing, storing, visualizing, and mining bioimages. ('''[[Bioimage informatics|Full article...]]''')<br />
HHS is administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The United States Public Health Service (PHS) is the main division of the HHS and is led by the Assistant Secretary for Health. The current Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius is the Vice-Chair of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. The Department of Health and Human Services is a member of the Council, which is dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in America.
 
As of May 2013, CMS administers 115 programs over 11 operating divisions, including the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), the [[Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]] (CMS), and the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH). ('''[[United States Department of Health and Human Services|Full article...]]''')<br />
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''Recently featured'': [[Biobank]], [[Translational research]], [[Rural health clinic]]
''Recently featured'': [[Bioimage informatics]], [[Biobank]], [[Translational research]]

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The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the Federal government of the United States with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW).

HHS is administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The United States Public Health Service (PHS) is the main division of the HHS and is led by the Assistant Secretary for Health. The current Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius is the Vice-Chair of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. The Department of Health and Human Services is a member of the Council, which is dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in America.

As of May 2013, CMS administers 115 programs over 11 operating divisions, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (Full article...)

Recently featured: Bioimage informatics, Biobank, Translational research