TIA Centre: News

We are pleased to share that TIA Centre researchers Adam Shephard and Shan E Ahmed Raza, together with Rose Wang (University of Missouri-Kansas City), are serving as Guest Editors for a new Cancers Special Issue,"Artificial Intelligence in Cancers: Enhancing Diagnosis and Treatment".

The Special Issue invites submissions on topics including computational pathology, medical imaging, radiology, genomics, multiomics, cancer detection, prognostic prediction, treatment planning, and clinical decision support, highlighting the growing role of AI in advancing cancer research and care.

Find out more and submit your work here.

1st ESDIP-MICCAI-ASDP Summer School, Graz, Austria (15-16th June 2026)

It was a real pleasure to co-lead the 1^st ESDIP-MICCAI-ASDP Summer School, held this year in Graz, Austria, delivered ahead of the ECDP 2026 conference. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Ethar Alzaid, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on survival risk prediction and stratification. Read more.

We are delighted to announce that TIA Centre PhD student, George Wright, successfully defended their PhD Viva earlier in the week - well done George! Read more.

As a professional services colleague in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick and Centre Manager for the TIA I don’t usually attend scientific conferences. This was my first attendance at a conference focussed on medical imaging and analysis. In the past I have attended scientific conferences focussed on renal disease and health improvement, so I was familiar with the format of scientific conferences and have even presented a poster on behalf of a team in Sweden, at a health improvement conference, on the team’s work around renal disease. Read more.

By Karen Thomas

We are delighted to share that Adam Shephard was featured in The Pathologist article, The Hidden Signals of Oral Cancer Risk’, discussing how AI could help improve risk assessment and outcomes for patients with oral epithelial dysplasia. Read the article here.

European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP), Graz, Austria

The TIA Centre was out in full force again at the 22^nd European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP) 2026, this year held in Graz, just a few kilometres from Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthplace. With temperatures regularly exceeding 30°C, attendees enjoyed not only a packed scientific programme but also the opportunity to experience one of Austria's most picturesque cities, famous for its historic Old Town and the iconic Schlossberg clock tower overlooking the city. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

The Tissue Image Analytics Centre, based in the Department of Computer Science at Warwick University, is delighted to announce that the University of Warwick have been awarded the honour of hosting the 2027 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference. Read more.

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Adam Shephard, an Assistant Professor in the centre whose research focuses on developing methods that combine different data modalities, such as histopathology, clinical records, and increasingly radiology, to improve prediction of disease progression and patient outcomes. Read more.

We are delighted to showcase a Pathology News Thought Leadership podcast featuring Adam Shephard, Assistant Professor from the TIA Centre in collaboration with Dr Hanya Mahmood from The University of Sheffield to explore how OYDN, an AI-powered computational pathology model, is improving risk stratification for oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) and uncovering novel digital biomarkers that could support earlier cancer detection. Read more.

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Bashayer Abdallah, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on monocular depth estimation for both medical and real-world imaging environments. Read more.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held in Chicago from 29 May to 2 June 2026, hosted an estimated 40,000 oncology professionals, making it the largest international conference dedicated to oncology research in the world. This provided us with a unique opportunity to interact with industry experts and clinicians as well as learn about cutting-edge research in the field. Read more.

The TIA Centre researchers were out in force last week and participated in a University of Warwick Student Union charity symposium held on Campus.

The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS) event is Warwick Student Union’s NEW flagship charity event where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers come together to give talks on computational cancer research. The symposium was sponsored by Histofy, a spinout from the TIA Centre aimed at accelerated precision diagnostics in both clinical and pharmaceutical workflows and raised funds for Cancer Research UK. Read more.

It was a pleasure (and a privilege) to be invited to speak at the “Transforming Digital Pathology & AI: The Path Forward” conference in Edinburgh this year, particularly given the calibre of speakers. Sharing the stage with leaders in computational pathology such as Prof. Jeroen van der Laak, Dr Raphaëlle Luisier (University of Bern), and the TIA Centre’s very own Dr Fayyaz Minhas made it clear from the outset that this would be a meeting worth attending. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

The month of April saw the annual IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 held in London. This year, researchers and students had eight papers accepted at the conference. Read more.

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.

By Seth Chang and Muhammad Amjad

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.