INB-Lunch-Seminar

Practical Image Analysis, Visualization and Interaction in Digital Pathology

André Homeyer, Fraunhofer MEVIS (Bremen)

Fueled by the increased availability of digital slide scanners, pathology is experiencing a rapid trend toward digitization. This opens the door for the automatic quantification of tissue parameters, with the potential to greatly improve the speed, accuracy and reproducibility of pathological observations. The talk will give an overview about recent developments in the area of histological image analysis at Fraunhofer MEVIS. Since histological images typically take up several thousand times as much memory as pictures taken with a digital camera, the talk will present efficient multi-scale image analysis methods that quickly process Gigabyte-sized images on a standard notebook computer. Furthermore, the talk will demonstrate how these methods can be easily adapted to the huge complexity and variance of histological images. Instead of being forced to set any abstract parameters, all the user has to do is to point out examples of the relevant tissue structures in an intuitive microscope-like user interface.