Digital Pathology Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This episode is brought to you by Visiopharm Artificial Intelligence is starting to cross from pathology research into pathology clinical practice. With several AI-based algorithms approved for clinical use in Europe and many more in the making, it is clear that rather sooner than later it will be an integral part of practicing pathology.   Does everyone practicing pathology have...

Send us Fan Mail If you are working with immunohistochemistry (IHC) you know how challenging it can sometimes be to optimize all the steps in the process to obtain a high-quality stain. It often takes testing different antibodies, antibody concentrations, antigen retrieval methods, and incubation times. What if there was a way to produce an IHC stain virtually, without antibodies or even the need...

Send us Fan Mail Machine learning is not a new technology, but it started to revolutionize pathology relatively recently. The ideal combination of untapped, abundant pathology data necessary to leverage machine learning and the relevance of pathology applications has drawn scientists to this field and caused an artificial intelligence (AI) explosion.   Within just two years from 2018 to 2020 AI-ba...

Send us Fan Mail This episode's guest, Andrew Janowczyk, is a computer scientist who has been active in the field of digital pathology since 2008. Before turning to the field of digital pathology he worked across the globe and across industries.   He was a salmon fisherman in Alaska. In Austria at the United Nations (UN) International Atomic Energy (IAE) Agency, he significantly contributed t...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest, Chaith Kondragunta, started working on neural network applications as an engineer back in the days when the computing power to fully utilize them was not available yet. This research field had to wait for the technology to catch up with the theoretical concepts. When this was achieved, Chaith harnessed deep learning for data analytics in the financial sector, but al...

Send us Fan Mail Implementing digital pathology into clinical practice is a big endeavor and a decision not taken lightly by pathology laboratories. Today’s guest, Dr. Ralf Huss, the chairman of Visiopharm’s advisory board explains: ·       what the biggest benefits of going digital are ·       how to start  ·       and why pathologists will be forced to accept the digital transformation.  Current...

Send us Fan Mail I met Chen Sagiv in person in 2019 at the European Congress of Toxicologic Pathology in Cologne, Germany after previously interacting for several months on social media. We stayed in touch ever since and started working on several projects together. Because of her expertise and the great relationship we have developed, she is now my go-to person in the computer vision field. Chen...

Send us Fan Mail The guest of this episode is Donal O'Shea, the CEO, and founder of Deciphex. He has been active in the area of digital pathology essentially since its beginning. He worked in academia and founded several successful digital pathology start-ups before his current one. Deciphex, in contrast to most digital pathology companies, is focused on non-clinical pathology, and its missio...

Send us Fan Mail Often those pathologists and scientists who are thinking of starting their journey with digital pathology are intimidated by the workflow changes and investment they will have to make in order to get started. The cost of the equipment and the challenges related to workflow re-design are often a significant barrier for adoption. Good news, there is an alternative! My guest, Mika Ku...

Send us Fan Mail The tools to develop AI models for biomedical image analysis have recently become accessible also for non-computer scientists. With the accessibility to AI tools, the question arises whether the things we build are good enough? How do we check the model? How do we validate it and be sure that when deployed according to the intended use it will perform adequately and help us make t...

Send us Fan Mail Jared organized a fundraiser and Gabe donated to the fundraiser, but he didn't donate money, he donated an augmented reality system - basically, the most expensive piece of equipment Jared was raising money for. This collaboration was born on-line when Jared Block from Carolinas Pathology Group in Charlotte, NC published a post about his fundraiser and Gabe Siegel from Augmen...

Send us Fan Mail Due to the coronavirus pandemic, so many pathologists need to work from home today. The microscopes and the slides were packed and brought home. Everyone is now on their own. No more knocking at a colleague's door to consult a diagnosis... But what if pathologists could still collaborate with ease, and consult colleagues from their home offices while reading the slides under...

Send us Fan Mail She is a researcher herself and during her research, she experienced the great histopathology pain point first hand: it was too slow! So to help researchers solve this problem she created a company - Histowiz , which not only provides fast histology services but also provides her customers access to a centralized pathology image database that can be used for data mining and to a l...

Send us Fan Mail Do you remember a presentation where the presenter had to switch between their powerpoint and a whole slide viewer to show a case and do you remember how annoying that was? Or a presentation where the presenter tried to show the highlights of a case with screenshots embedded in their presentation, but they were not representative at all and you wished you could see the whole slide...

Send us Fan Mail Do you think your pathology laboratory is modern? If so, you have most probably gone digital. Nowadays modern pathology means digital pathology . However, to fully embrace digital pathology a scanner is not enough . You need the correct tools. Tools to manage your whole slide images in a systematic way and artificial intelligence-based tools enhancing your performance. Proscia is...

Send us Fan Mail For pathologists and scientists microscope does not seem like a luxury, it is an everyday tool necessary to do their jobs. It is not a cheap tool, but there is no option not to have one, especially if you work in a pathology or microbiology lab. Otherwise, you cannot do your job, you cannot help patients, and every day there are so many cases to diagnose. But what to do, in places...

Send us Fan Mail In this very first episode, I want to welcome you to the Digital Pathology Podcast. If you are interested in Digital Pathology and medical and scientific advancements, this is a place for you. Every other week we will be publishing interviews, discussion and journal club-type updates on the newest advancements in the field of digital pathology described in the literature.  Support...