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1st European Workshop on Tissue Imaging and Analysis
February 13 - 14, 2009
BIOQUANT-Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, Heidelberg
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On February 13th-14th over 140 scientists from 10 European countries,
Japan and USA gathered for the 1st European TIGA Workshop in Heidelberg.
Aspects
Virtual Microscopy refers to the capability of automatically digitizing and computational processing of whole microscopic slides. For the first time it enables high-throughput quantitative measurements of tissue structures.
By conceptually putting mass-tissue-data at the heart of any analysis, Virtual Microscopy creates novel synergies between technological disciplines like bioinformatics, medical informatics, image analysis, molecular biology, organotypic cell cultures and histology. These technical synergies pave the way for new structures in clinical diagnostics and fundamentally support newly arising disciplines like systems biology, systems pathology and systems toxicology.
The 1st European Workshop on Tissue Imaging and Analysis starts a novel series of events allowing the scientific exchange of key players in the field. Topics cover tissue analysis for systems pathology, computer assisted high-throughput diagnostics, cell-based cancer diagnostics, bioinformatics and image processing algorithms. Latest approaches and applications from clinics, research, education, and industry are presented.
The workshop provides a platform for discussion and contact for scientists active in virtual microscopy related fields. All attendees will be enriched through comprehensive presentations, stimulating discussions with a chance for becoming acquainted with relevant products and technologies.
Establishment of the Hamamatsu Tissue Imaging and Analysis Center at the University of Heidelberg
Optical technologies enable fundamental insights into biomedical processes and are nowadays an indispensable component of diagnostics and research. With the support of Japan‘s Hamamatsu Photonics the Hamamatsu Tissue Imaging and Analysis (TIGA) Center has been established in the systems biological BIOQUANT center of the University Heidelberg. The TIGA Center is based on a joint initiative by the Institute for Pathology and the Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics at the University Clinic Heidelberg, with both institutes combining their specific areas of specialisation: pathology and medical informatics. Technologically the work of the TIGA Center is based on the fully automatic microscopy of tissue sections by the Hamamatsu Photonics NanoZoomer imaging robot.