AI and Digital Microscopy
25-26 June 2018, University of Exeter, Exeter.
A two-day multidisciplinary meeting centred on application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods in Digital Microscopy will be held at the University of Exeter on 25-26 June, 2018. The meeting is hosted as part of the project "Novel context-based segmentation algorithms for intelligent microscopy", funded by the EPSRC at the Universities of Birmingham and Exeter.
Rationale
Digital
microscopy and image processing have revolutionised many analytical
approaches to the analysis of cells and tissues, and contributed to
resolving a wide range of problems, from experimental cell research
to cancer diagnosis. However automated interpretation of image
contents remains an important challenge. This is where AI could
provide formal techniques and algorithms (such as spatial logics,
constraint-based methods, explicit ontologies and machine learning
algorithms) to represent, encode and mechanically reason about
information and interpret the contents of histological images. This
is essential to support expert observers, provide quantitative
approaches (for reproducible results) and free users from performing
otherwise repetitive tasks to achieve the goal of fast, reproducible
and quantitative analytical methods.
Date
and Venue The
meeting will be held on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th
of June, 2018, at the Reed Hall Conference Centre, Streatham
Campus, University of Exeter. Reed Hall is located in extensive
grounds and gardens and is well-located and a popular venue to host
meetings and day conferences. Exeter
University Streatham Campus (Reed Hall indicated by the red arrow). (Image copyright © OpenStreetMap) Registration is closed
Additional
information Accommodation
in Exeter Getting
to Exeter, the University and Reed Hall Information
on how to get to Exeter and from Exeter to the Streatham Campus may
be found using the following link:
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/university/travel/
Images in digital microscopy range from small, single field captures to
‘whole slide images’ typically requiring gigabytes of memory to
process, and this represents a further challenge in finding ways to
efficiently represent and encode information that is relevant to the
histological models used to interpret them.
This multidisciplinary meeting aims to provide a unique opportunity for
networking, discussing problems, sharing and showcasing AI techniques
that are directly related to the processing of microscopy digital
images for a new generation of intelligent cytological and
histopathological analyses.
The meeting will start on Monday 25th at 12:00 to allow travelling on the day, and will finish on Tuesday 26th at approximately 16:30.
Reed Hall, University of Exeter.
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