TIA Centre: News

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of George Wright, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on endometrial tissue and examining the causes of recurrent pregnancy loss. Read more.

This April, we had the incredible opportunity to travel to London to attend IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026, a leading international conference in biomedical imaging research. Although an unfamiliar experience for both of us, it was an incredibly valuable insight into the field of computational pathology and academia as a whole. Read more.

I am Hafsa Akebli, a PhD student at the University of Udine, Italy, and I carried out a two-month research internship between September and November 2025 at the Tissue Image Analytics Centre, University of Warwick, under the co-supervision of Professor Nasir Rajpoot and Dr Adam Shephard. During this visit, I worked on a multimodal oncology agent for IDH1 mutation prediction in low-grade glioma, in collaboration with my PhD supervisor Professor Vincenzo Della Mea. This work led to our paper “Multimodal Oncology Agent for IDH1 Mutation Prediction in Low-Grade Glioma,” which was presented orally at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 by Dr Adam Shephard. Read more.

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Behnaz Elhaminia, a Research Fellow in the centre whose work focuses on developing AI methods for histopathology image analysis. Read more.

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of David Epstein, an Emeritus Professor in Mathematics whose work and ideas have played a vital role in the development of the TIA centre. Read more.

Dr Afzan Binti Adam, Senior Lecturer in Digital Pathology at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), has successfully completed her six‑month sabbatical at the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick. Her visit was supported by UKM and the MIGHT–TÜBİTAK grant and closely aligned with the TIA’s mission to advance computational pathology through interdisciplinary research and cutting‑edge AI technologies. Read more.

We are delighted to showcase another Pathology News podcast featuring our very own Fayyaz Minhaz, Deputy Director of the TIA Centre and lead researcher for PRISM (Predictive Systems in Biomedicine). Read more.

In the first of the TIA Centre's new Spotlight series, we introduce Arwa AlRubaian, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre who has recently passed her viva. Read more about Arwa's career journey so far and current work here.

The Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre is pleased to announce the release of TIAToolbox v2.0.0, a major update to the opensource platform widely used for digital pathology and AI-driven tissue image analysis. TIAToolbox provides an end-to-end framework for working with whole slide images (WSIs), covering data loading, pre-processing, deep learning inference, postprocessing, and visualisation. It is designed for clinical, biomedical, and computational researchers and supports a broad range of pathology image analysis tasks. Read more.

We are delighted to announce that one of the TIA Centre’s PhD students, Arwa Ali Al-Rubaian, officially defended their PhD viva last last week - congratulations Arwa!

Arwa’s research, was titled Algorithms for Growth Pattern Based-Analysis of Lung Adenocarcinoma Histology. Read more.

The fifth Bigpicture Annual Consortium Meeting took place from 28 to 30 January 2026 in Berlin, kindly hosted by Bayer at its Müllerstraße venue. Over three packed days, partners from across the consortium gathered to share progress, align priorities, and plan the next steps in developing a large-scale digital pathology platform and repository. Read more.

By Gozde Gunesli

We are delighted to showcase a Pathology News podcast featuring our very own Shan Raza from the TIA Centre. This podcast is the first in a series of thought leadership podcasts that Pathology News will be featuring with colleagues from the TIA Centre about our work. Read more.

By Lucy Fox

We are delighted to share that we have had seven papers from the TIA Centre accepted at ISBI 2026, the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, one of the leading international conferences in biomedical image analysis. This year’s conference will take place in London in April 2026, making this a particularly exciting and accessible venue for the Centre. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

We are delighted to share that the work of Seth Chang (3^rd year Data Science) and Muhammad Amjad (4^th year Maths and Physics), who completed an eight-week summer internship at the TIA Centre in 2025, has been accepted as a paper at ISBI 2026, a leading international conference on biomedical imaging, taking place in London this April. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

We are thrilled to announce that one of the TIA Centre’s PhD students, Neda Zemanitajeddin, has successfully defended her PhD viva – congratulations Neda! Read more.

Last week saw 35+ internal and external stakeholders attend a Workshop run by the University of Warwick’s TIA Centre on Campus. The focus of the workshop was to brainstorm about the future direction for the TIA Centre and priorities in computational pathology. It was a great meeting, and we heard from other stakeholders about how they thought their work could fit with the future direction of the TIA Centre.

Early in the new year we will be working on the development of our future strategy, so the workshop was very timely and gave us a lot of material to incorporate into plans. Thank you to all those who participated. Read more.

We are delighted to announce that one of the TIA Centre’s PhD students, Manahil Raza, officially defended their PhD viva last last week - congratulations Manahil! Read more.

This year’s International Conference on Computer Vision, one of the world’s leading biennial events in the field, drew over 7,000 researchers from 65 countries to the Hawaii Convention Centre, with only 2.6% from the UK. As one of this 2.6%, I was thrilled to attend and present my latest work amid the palm-lined boulevards and ocean breezes of Honolulu. No offence to Leeds, but the backdrop was a far cry from my last conference, where I presented the ASTERLink opens in a new window segmentation model at MIUA. With the excitement of the venue, sunny skies, and opportunity to explore Hawaii for the first time, it was hard to imagine a more appealing setting for scientific exchange. Read more.

By George Wright

Hafsa Akebli, a second-year PhD student at the University of Udine, Italy, recently completed a two-month research visit at the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre. Her doctoral research focuses on applying deep learning to histopathological images for disease pattern detection, mainly addressing classification and survival prediction tasks across different cancer types, including Gleason grading in prostate cancer. Before starting her PhD, Hafsa obtained her degree in Industrial Management Engineering from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco and gained two years of professional experience at UM6P and L’Oréal Morocco. Read more.

By Hafsa Akebli

MICCAI 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea, brought together thousands of researchers working at the intersection of medicine and AI. With over 3,300 participants, it was the largest MICCAI to date, full of energy and meaningful conversations across disciplines. Read more.

By Noorul Wahab