The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute is a permanent research institute at the University of Utah that focuses on the development of new scientific computing and visualization techniques, tools, and systems with primary applications to biomedical engineering.

[1][2] The SCI Institute is noted worldwide in the visualization community for contributions by faculty, alumni, and staff.

In 2007, the SCI Institute was awarded funding from USTAR to recruit more faculty in medical imaging technology.

[4] In 2011, USTAR funding allowed faculty recruitment for genomic signal processing and information visualization.

The SCI Institute releases open source software packages for many of the projects developed by researchers for use by the scientific visualization and medical imaging communities.