AI for Precision Histopathology: The Road Ahead
Prof. Nasir Rajpoot is the founding director of Tissue Image Analytics Centre at Warwick since 2012 and co-director of the PathLAKE centre since 2019. He a fellow of the Royal Society Wolfson and a fellow of Alan Turing Institute. In this talk, he is going to discuss current trends in Computational Histopathology and future directions.
Computing Science: Computing Technologies for Healthcare Theme
Date: Thursday 17 November 2022
Time: 14:30 - 15:30
Venue: Hybrid Event: SAWB 422/423 - https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlcuqtpj4rGNzdETgFfoLpbQG6BacOMWna
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Speaker: Prof. Nasir Rajpoot
Abstract:
- Large collections of pathology image data offer a potential goldmine of invaluable information, ripe for deep learning of known and deep mining of novel digital histological biomarkers of cancer diagnosis, prognosis, clinical outcome and response to therapy.
- This talk will cover some of the major challenges faced and opportunities offered by the nascent discipline of computational pathology.
This event is hybrid. Please, join us at Sir Alwyn Williams 422-423 or via zoom (registration is required): https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlcuqtpj4rGNzdETgFfoLpbQG6BacOMWna
Biography:
Nasir Rajpoot is Professor of Computational Pathology at the University of Warwick and Honorary Scientist at the Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust. Prior to completing his PhD in Computer Science from Warwick in 2001, he was a Postgraduate Research Fellow in the Applied Math program (partially based at the School of Medicine) at Yale University (USA) during 1998-2000 and a Systems Engineering Fellow at PIEAS (Pakistan) during 1994-1996.
Prof Rajpoot is the founding Director of Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre (previously the TIA lab) at Warwick since 2012 and also co-Director of the recently funded £15m PathLAKE centre of excellence on AI in pathology since Jan 2019. The focus of current research in TIA Centre led by Prof Rajpoot is on AI and machine learning algorithms for the study of histological and multi-omic markers of cancer biology, with applications to early detection of cancer and stratification of cancer patients in terms of recurrence, progression and response to therapy. He has been active in the digital pathology community for almost two decades now and has delivered over 80 invited and keynote talks since 2015 at various national and international events and institutions.
Prof Rajpoot recently served as President of the European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP), which took place at Warwick in April 2019. Previously, he served as the General Chair of the UK Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) conference in 2010 and as the Technical Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) in 2007. He co-chaired several meetings in the histology image analysis (HIMA) series since 2008 and served as a founding PC member of the SPIE Digital Pathology meeting since 2012. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of the Association of the Computing Machinery (ACM), the British Association of Cancer Research (BACR), the European Association of Cancer Research (EACR) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Prof Rajpoot was recently awarded the Wolfson Fellowship by the UK Royal Society and the Turing Fellowship by the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national data science institute.