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Digital Pathology & Pathologists 2016
December 05-06, 2016
Volume 6 Issue 5(Suppl) J Clin Exp Pathol
ISSN: 2161-0681 JCEP, an open access journal
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December 05-06, 2016 Madrid, Spain
9th World Digital Pathology & Pathologists Congress
Lee Cooper, J Clin Exp Pathol 2016, 6:5(Suppl)
HistomicsTK: Developing an open-sourced platform for integrated histopathology analysis
Lee Cooper1,2
1Emory University School of Medicine, USA
2Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Open-sourced software is an important resource for research communities, providing transparency, reproducibility and
enabling broad engagement among researchers to understand and build upon the communities’ work. While mature
open-sourced image analysis tools are commonplace in the radiology domain, the digital pathology domain has relatively
few open source tools for histopathology image analysis. This talk will discuss ongoing efforts by Emory and Kitware, Inc.
to develop HistomicsTK, an open source platform for histopathology image analysis. HistomicsTK enables users to analyze
large collections of whole-slide images, providing algorithms for common image analysis tasks including segmentation,
feature extraction and classification. It provides infrastructure for the parallel execution of image analysis pipelines and
enables algorithm/pipeline portability and easy deployment using containerization technology and network-based access to
computational capabilities through REST interfaces. Case studies using HistomicsTK and its precursor tools will be presented
including systems for interactive classification, nuclear morphometrics and immunohistochemical quantification. Using data
from The Cancer Genome Atlas we will demonstrate how HistomicsTK can used to analyze multifaceted datasets containing
digital pathology images and comprehensive genomic and clinical characterizations of cancers to explore prognostic imaging
biomarkers and to investigate fundamental disease processes like angiogenesis and lymphocytic infiltration.
Biography
Lee Cooper is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech. He
has received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University in 2009 and then joined Emory University; where he currently leads the Cancer
Data Science lab. His research investigates computational methods for the analysis and integration of digital pathology, genomic and clinical data with the goals of
improving prognostic accuracy and disease classification.