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A1: TELEPATHOLOGY
Invited talk: Current Status of telepathology (K.Kayser, Germany)
Pathology Overseas in the millennium (V. Stracca, Italy)
Fifth Generation Telepathology Systems: The Whole Slide Image-Enhanced Dynamic Robotic Telepathology System (R.Weinstein, USA)
A2 TELEPATHOLOGY NETWORKS
The Eastern Quebec telepathology network: a support to the improvement of the public health care system (B.Tetu, Canada)
Development of a nationwide telepathology quality control program for cancer diagnosis in China (C.Zhou, China)
The Open European Nephrology Science Center as a Open Science Center – a platform for scientific data and image management (T.Schrader, Germany)
Modern communication in medical science using an internet based project management system and file exchange platform (G.Kayser, Germany)
Webconference mixed with virtual slides as a pedagogical tool to improve pathology practice in the French Midi-Pyrenees area. (M.L. Quintin-Ranty, France)
B1 COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS
Out-of-sample extension of diffusion maps in a computer aided diagnosis system. Application to breast cancer virtual slide images (P.Belhomme, France)
A visual model approach to extract regions of interest in microscopical images of basal cell carcinoma (E.Romero, Colombia)
The Metrizer: an innovative device for achieving virtual hepatic biopsies (N.Dioguardi, Italy)
Computer aided diagnoses of sentinel node micrometastases (J. Van der Laak, Netherlands)
A3 TELEDIAGNOSIS
Construction of web-based remote diagnosis system using virtual slide for routine pathology slides of the rural hospital in Japan (I.Mori, Japan)
Telepathology Consultation in China using Whole Slide Image and an Internet based Platform (C.Zhou, China)
A morphometric tool applied to angiogenesis research based on vessel segmentation (G.Bueno, Spain)
B2 PATHOLOGISTS OVERSEAS
Special session from the Patologi Oltre Frontiera (Pathologists Overseas) association.
Telepathology in low-resource settings: advantages and limitations (A.Faravelli,APOF, Italy)
The experience of telepathology in Spain: the beginning of an European Network (M. Garcia Rojo, Spain)
Telepathology as tool from diagnosis to quality control (S.Guzzetti, APOF, Italy)
Challenges in establishing a digital pathology facility in Pakistan (Y.Yagi, USA)
Teaching through telepathology: a live lesson to Zambian students (A.M. Ferrari, S. Simonazzi, APOF, Italy)
C2 VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY
Virtual Microscopy with Google Earth: a step in the way for compatibility (L.Alfaro, Spain)
JP2 WSI Converter: a universal JPEG2000 virtual slide conversion tool (J.Isola, Finland)
Hosting and Managing Large Sets of Virtual Microscopy Slides on Content Management Platforms on the Web (H.P.Sinn, Germany)
Computer aided navigation – Virtual Microscopy as a tool for block centric slide reading (N.Zerbe, Germany)
A4 INTERNATIONAL SCANNER CONTEST 2012
Overview of ISC (P. Hufnagl, Y. Yagi)
Assessment of High Throughput (N. Zerbe, O. Alekseychuk)
Assessment of Quality – brightfield (G. Kayser, N.Zerbe)
Assessment of Quality – Fluorescence (T. Schrader, A. Laurinavicius)
Assessment of Image Analysis Quality (F. Klauschen, P. Hufnagl)
Assessment of Technical Parameters (O. Alekseychuk, N. Zerbe, Y. Yagi)
Future of ISC: Workflow Integration (M.G. Rojo, T. Schrader)
A5 TRACEABILITY
Invited talk: Interoperability in traceability and digital slides systems (M.Garcia Rojo, Spain)
A6 VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY 2
Larynx Virtual Slide Validation Study (B.Sturm, Netherlands)
A rich internet application for remote visualization and collaborative annotation of digital slide images in histology and cytology (R. Marée, Belgium)
An open-source, MATLAB-based annotation tool for virtual slides (R.Turkki, Finland)
Colon biopsy diagnostics may reliably be performed using virtual microscopy (B.Sturm, Netherlands)
B3 IMAGE ANALYSIS
chair: Gloria Bueno
A Simple Mathematical Model Utilizing a Topological Invariant for Automatic Detection of Tumor Areas in Digital Tissue Images (K.Nakane, Y. Tsuchihashi, Japan)
Semi-automatic Evaluation of Intraepithelial Lymphocytic Infiltrate in Doudenal Biopsies on Digital Slides (L. Fónyad, Hungary)
Automated segmentation of blood cells in Giemsa stained thin smear images (M.J. Walliander, Finland)
Semiautomatic FISH quantification on digital slides (G.Kiszler, Hungary)
C3 DIGITAL STANDARDS
Tracking and Analysis of Business Processes in a Pathology Department (T.Schrader, Germany)
A unifying diagnosis coding system for the structured pathology report in Italy (A.Bondi, Italy)
Impact of terminologies for tumor pathology structured reports (G.Haroske, Germany)
Integrating guidelines-based structured reporting into patient data management system (S.Seiwerth, Croatia)
A7 DIGITAL SLIDES FOR SURGICAL PATHOLOGY: MITH OR REALITY?
(industry-sponsored symposium: CloudPathology Group)
Surgical Cloud Pathology: The Swedish Experience (Michael Diktor, Sweden)
A Competitive Massive Slide Scanner Test: scanner performance (Vincenzo Della Mea, Italy)
A Competitive Massive Slide Scanner Test: preliminary diagnostic performance (Filippo Crivelli, Italy)
The General Manager Point of View (Mario Po, Italy)
A8 DIGITAL IHC 1
Digital Immunohistochemistry: New Horizons and Practical Solutions in Breast Cancer Pathology (A.Laurinavicius, Lithuania)
ImmunoRatio-F: image analysis of ER, PR, and Ki-67 immunohistochemistry using cytokeratin immunofluorescense correction (J.Isola, Finland)
A multistep image analysis method to increase automated identification efficiency in immunohistochemical nuclear markers with a high background level (M.Lejeune, Spain)
Is Her2 amplification predictable by digital immunohistochemistry? (T.Micsik, Hungary)
B4 QUALITY IN DIGITAL PATHOLOGY
The Image- and Data Quality Ontology for scientific data management (T.Schrader, Germany)
Stack or Trash? Quality assessment of virtual slides (D.Ameisen, France)
Development of System Resolution Evaluation Slide Set for Whole Slide Imaging: Toward Standardization (Y.Yagi, USA)
Implementation of telecytology for online quality assurance programs – Georgian experience (E. Kldiashvili, Georgia)
C4 E-SCREENING
Diagnostic reproducibility on whole digital slide in cytology and histology of the uterine cervix (S.Lega, Italy)
Mobile satellite teleoncology (C.L. Ugalde Herrá, Ecuador)
Telepathology in cervical and breast cancer screening programmes (R.Colombari, Italy)
Pap Smear Cell Image Classification Using Global MPEG-7 Descriptors (L.H.Camargo, Colombia)
A9 TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES: LABEL-FREE TECHNOLOGIES
An introduction to Label free technologies (O.Piot, C.Gobinet, T.Happillon, B.Wattelier, J.Klossa, France)
Label free technologies in Pathology (J.Klossa, O.Piot, C.Gobinet, B.Wattelier, T.Happillon, France)
B5 IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
Color correction and enhancement for histopathology images (P.Bautista, USA)
Towards the integration of digital cytology in the tablet technologies (D.Giansanti, Italy)
An Oriented Service Multilayer Architecture for Virtual Microscopy in Mobile Devices (E.Romero, Colombia)
ePathology in the Cloud (O.Eichhorn, USA)
A10 IMAGE ANALYSIS
Invited talk: Overcoming Challenges in Histology 3D Imaging (Y.Yagi, USA)
An entropy-based automated approach to prostate biopsy ROI segmentation (G.Bueno, Spain)
Cell Nuclei Extraction from Breast Cancer Histopathology Images Using Color, Texture, Scale and Shape Information (D.Racoceanu, Singapore)
A11 DIGITAL IHC 2
Comparison of image analysis of IHC, visual scoring, and quantitative real time PCR data for Ki67 tumor proliferation in breast cancer (H.P.Sinn, Germany)
Impact Of Tumor Heterogeneity On Disease-Free Survival In A Series Of 368 Patients Treated For A Breast Cancer (M.Oger, France)
B6 E-LEARNING
Teachers’ impact on dental students’ exam scores in teaching oral pathology using digitized slides (J.Szymas, Poland)
E-education for medical Students using WSI in Egypt (E.Ayad, Egypt)
Application and evaluation of teaching practical histology with the use of virtual microscopy (D. Krajčí, Czech Republic)
C5 IMAGE ANALYSIS 2
Automated classification of breast cancer images according to morphological features using LPQ/LBP texture descriptors and an SVM classifier (V.Ojansivu, Finland)
Automatic measurement of the evolutionary process dynamics of primary biliary cirrhosis (pbc) (N.Dioguardi, Italy)