Attending the 20th European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP) 2024 in Vilnius, Lithuania, was an enriching experience. Over three days, experts and professionals gathered to exchange knowledge, present innovative ideas, and network. Here are some highlights and personal insights from the event. Read MoreLink opens in a new window

I, Zhao Chen, am an Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China and a Visiting Researcher (01/09/2023-31/08/2024) with the Department of Computer Science, the University of Warwick, UK. My interests are in computational analysis for various kinds of images, including pathology, remote sensing and fabric images. Read MoreLink opens in a new window

Having come from an engineering background, I decided to pursue my postdoctoral experience in computer science, and I loved it. Just after submitting my thesis in Spring 2023, I started a research position at TIA, working with Dr Shan Raza on early detection of oral cancer and in collaboration with University of Sheffield. Reflecting on my first year at TIA, I have got much to say! Read MoreLink opens in a new window

By Adam Shephard (with the help of Chat-GPT)

I recently travelled to Athens for the ISBI 2024 conference. This was also a great opportunity to travel to Greece, and so my wife and I headed out a few days earlier and stayed on a nearby island called Aegina, just a 30 minute ferry from Athens port. Read MoreLink opens in a new window

The PathLAKE Plus Consortium started, in 2020, as a collection of 10 NHS Trusts partners, which received grant funding to deploy digital pathology and AI in their labs. Read MoreLink opens in a new window

The Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre is delighted to extend its congratulations to Dang Vu for winning the 2024 Best Thesis Prize for the Department of Computer Science. Dang is a former PhD student from the TIA Centre and his thesis was entitled “Handcrafted Representations for Whole Slide Images”. Read MoreLink opens in a new window

Karen Thomas has been appointed as the new Senior Project Manager for the TIA Centre. Karen has come from Coventry University where she was responsible for developing partnerships for academic collaboration with education establishments around the world. Read MoreLink opens in a new window

Professor Rajpoot, Director of the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre at the University of Warwick, has been announced as the new GSK Chair of Computational Pathology at the University of Warwick.

We're delighted to bring you the Spring 2023 edition of the PathLAKE newsletter. In this final newsletter we focus on PathLAKE's highlights and achievements over the past 4 years.

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A new study at the University of Warwick, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) will shed light on how AI can transform colon biopsy screening – streamlining diagnoses and helping to ease the pressure on NHS histopathology resources. The research will involve data from 10 NHS hospitals across the UK and more than 10,000 biopsy samples.

Spring & Summer 2022 seminars are now available on the TIA Centre Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW4r_voOa6A

Prof Nasir Rajpoot delivers a keynote talk titled: "Computational Pathology and PathLAKE" at the TMC conference 7th March.

Please follow the link here for further details.

Congratulations to Simon Graham, Mary Shapcott, Muhammad Shaban and Navid Alemi Koohbanani on the successful defense of their PhD theses

The Warwick TIA team represented by Prof Nasir Rajpoot and Dr Shan Raza are delighted to be part of the EU-wide €70M BIGPICTURE project.

Goal

To take AI development in pathology to the next level, a European consortium combining leading European research centres, hospitals as well as major pharmaceutical industries, is going to develop a repository for the sharing of pathology data. The 6-year, €70M project called BIGPICTURE, will herald a new era in pathology.

See the RadboudMC (coordinator) announcement for more info at: https://www.computationalpathologygroup.eu/news/start-bigpicture/

On Wednesday 10th February, Dr Fayyaz Minhas delivered a seminar titled "Machine Learning Guided Discovery of Protein Interactions and Functions."

Please see the link here for more information.

Congratulations to our recent PhD student Navid Alemi Koohbanani on the acceptance of his paper titled "Deep Learning based Digital Cell Profiles for Risk Stratification of Urine Cytology Images" in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. This article is the result of a successful collaboration with colleagues at the I2R in Singapore.

WRAP link: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/147961/

Publisher's link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9343323

Congratulations to our PhD student Ruqayya Awan on the acceptance of her paper titled "Deep Learning based Digital Cell Profiles for Risk Stratification of Urine Cytology Images" in Cytometry Part A

Publisher's link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cyto.a.24313

Welcome to Muhammad Dawood, Rob Jewsbury and Ruoyu Wang, who join the TIA team as PhD students (Nov/Oct 2020), Manahail Raza as an MRes student (Dec 2020) and Gozde Gunesli as a PhD student (Jan 2021).