Gloria Bueno
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Title: AIDPATH: The 1st european project for academia and industrial collaboration for digital pathology
Biography
Biography: Gloria Bueno
Abstract
Advances in digital pathology are generating huge volumes of whole slide and tissue microarray images which are providing new insights into the causes of most devastating diseases. They also present tremendous opportunities for developing and evaluating new and more effective treatments that may revolutionize the care of patients with cancers and other diseases. The challenge is to exploit the new and emerging digital pathology technologies effectively in order to process and model all the heterogeneous tissue-derived data. This requires joint research projects and collaborative programmes between academia and industry, which will help developing efficient and innovative products to fulfil the needs of digital pathology. This is the goal of the AIDPATH project: AIDPATH is composed by 4 companies (Leica, Astrazeneca, Barco and TissueGnostics), 3 hospitals and 5 research institutions in Europe and funded by Marie Curie Actions FP7 EC-612471 during 4 years. AIDPATH facilitates the development of digital pathology by producing new products and research results tailored to fulfil their needs. The work done and the results obtained for different applications in breast and colorectal cancer as well as in nephropathology will be presented in this conference.