MICCAI 2024

MICCAI was in Marrakesh this year – the first time the meeting has been held in Africa! Jianan presented his work on Detecting noisy labels with repeated cross-validations and Vishwesh presented on Ensemble of Prior-guided Expert Graph Models for Survival Prediction in Digital Pathology. Congratulations to Matthew on winning the Leopard challenge at MICCAI2024 .

DPLabtools has been released!

We have finally released DPLabtools, our comprehensive Python package for handling digital pathology images! This was developed by Lukasz Itert with input from the whole lab and it is designed to support the handling of WSIs for AI development. Features include the ability to handle annotations from multiple platforms, and multi-resolution patch extraction.  The parallel Read More

Goodbye to Jianan and Grey

Jianan Chen is now a post-doctoral fellow at University College, London and Grey Kuling has just left for a post-doc position at Harvard Medical School – congratulations to them both on their achievements during their PhD studies. Thank you both for all of your valuable contributions to the lab, and all the best in your Read More

Success in the SemiCol Challenge

Congratulations to Tony (Lingtong) Xu and Matthew McNeil on coming second in both arms of the ESDIP SemiCOL challenge. We are looking forward to expanding this work to our INOVAIT Canada project on AI applications in GI pathology with Pathcore and our clinical colleagues Dina Bassiouny, Ken Craddock, and Lina Chen at Sunnybrook This work Read More

Successful Defense

Cristina Gallego successfully defended her thesis titled “Computer-aided diagnosis for MRI screening of the breast in high-risk women” last week. Massive congratulations to our fellow team member!

BreastPathQ SPIE Challenge

We have just announced the launch of an SPIE image analysis grand challenge, BreastPathQ. We are asking the image analysis community to develop methods to automatically perform tumor burden assessment in breast digital pathology slides. Full details of the BreastPathQ challenge can be found on the website: http://spiechallenges.cloudapp.net/competitions/14 The training set has been released and Read More

DLRL Summer School Acceptance

Congratulation to Grey Kuling and Geoff Klein on securing their place for the Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School hosted by by the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Vector Institute. Full details of the summer school can be found here: https://dlrlsummerschool.ca/

IMNO 2018

The 16th Annual Imaging Network Ontario (IMNO) Symposium will be on March 28th & 29th, 2018 at the Chestnut Residence & Conference Centre in Toronto, Ontario. The annual open meeting of Imaging Network Ontario (ImNO) promotes Canada’s role as a leader in medical imaging innovation by cultivating synergy among consortia and partnerships between Ontario imaging Read More

Invited Speaker: Julia A. Schnabel

Date/Time: 15th May, 2-3pm Location: Room M6-502 (Breast Clinic Theatre), 6th floor, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Speaker: Julia A. Schnabel, PhD Title: Computational imaging in cancer Abstract to come Bio Julia Schnabel is Chair in Computational Imaging at the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London, Director of the EPSRC Centre for Read More