Analysis of histology images of the human tissue biopsies remains the most reliable way of diagnosing and grading cancer. Our work on the automatic classification of histology images is motivated by the fact that there is significant inter- and intra- rater variability in the grading and diagnosis of cancer from histology slides by human experts. Computational histopathology can assist the pathologists in making the grading and diagnosis reproducible by providing useful quantitative measures from histology images of a patient suspected or diagnosed of having cancer.

Here at COMBI, we are working with a range of histopathology images with the aim of developing algorithms to assist the histopathologists in order to improve the reliability and reproducibility of the pathology. Current projects include:

• Automatic Classification of Hyperspectral Images of Human Colon Biopsy Slides (in collaboration with Yale University, USA)
• Classification of Meningiomas (in collaboration with Bielefeld University, Germany)

Recent events co-organised by our group are:

• Co-Chair, MICCAI'2011 workshop on Histopathology Image Analysis, Toronto (Canada), September 18, 2011
• Invited Speaker, ASIP Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology: Trends in Experimental Pathology, Washington DC (USA), April 9, 2011
• Co-Chair, HIMA Course at Pathology Informatics 2010, Boston (MA, USA), September 19-22, 2010
• Co-Chair, ICPR'2010 Contest on Pattern Recognition in Histopathological Images, Istanbul (Turkey), August 23, 2010
• General Chair, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Warwick (UK), July 6-7, 2010
• Chair, BMVA Symposium on Microscopy Image Analysis for Biomedical Applications, London (UK), April 21, 2010
• Chair, MICCAI'2009 Workshop on Optical Tissue Image Analysis in Microscopy, Histopathology and Endoscopy (OPTIMHisE), Imperial College London (UK), September 2009
• Co-Chair, Histology Image Analysis (HIMA): Now and Future, Ohio State University, Columbus, July 2009
• MICCAI'2008 Tutorial on Histopathology Imaging, New York, September 2008
• ISBI'2008 Special Session on Computational Histopathology, Paris, May 2008

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