Final Conference

25-26th January 2024 – Valencia (Spain)

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About

The field of digital histopathology has seen incredible growth in recent years. Digital pathology is becoming a relevant tool in healthcare, industrial and research sectors to reduce the saturation of pathology departments and improve the productivity of pathologists by increasing diagnostic accuracy and reducing turnaround times.

CLARIFY project was born in 2019 as an innovative, multinational, multi-sectorial, and multidisciplinary research and training programme to produce 12 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and clinical pathology with the focus on digital pathology to respond to the need for a new generation of researchers able to address the challenges in that field.

Now CLARIFY is about to finish and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) organizes the Final Conference: A two-day event in which the main achievements of CLARIFY will be highlighted and have high‐profile researchers in the field as invited speakers.

The aim of the symposium is to provide an event for the research and clinical community that facilitates discussion and lays the foundations for future developments and collaborations. The symposium is open to the research community, registration for the event is free of charge and attendees are invited to contribute with poster presentations.

Welcome to the CLARIFY Final Conference!

Agenda

Agenda subject to change, please consult regularly!

25th January: Day 1 - CLARIFY results

09:00 Opening of Registration Desk
09:30 Welcome and introduction
10:15 Session 1: CLARIFY Cancer-specific AI-Clinic Synergies: Skin Cancer
11:05 Coffee Break
11:30 Session 1: CLARIFY Cancer-specific AI-Clinic Synergies: Breast & Bladder Cancer
13:10 Lunch
14:15 Session 2: CLARIFY Cancer-aignostic AI applications 
15:20 Coffee Break
15:50 Session 3: CLARIFY Cloud-based solutions
16:55 Close

26th January: Day 2 - Beyond CLARIFY

08:30 Opening of Registration Desk
09:00 2nd Day Welcome
09:15 Session 4: Seminar on CE marking
10:15 Poster Session introduction
10:45 Coffee Break + Poster Session
11:15 Keynotes speeches

Paula Toro (Roche Diagnostics) – “Unlocking the data behind H&E: AI integration in pathology”

Adrián Colomer (Artikode Intelligence) – “PixNormous: A web-based platform for the visualization, annotation and automatic analysis od multiorgan histology Whole Slide Images”

Lukas Ruff (Aignostics) – “Towards Foundation Models in Pathology”

Geert Litjens (BigPicture project) – “The future of AI in pathology and the role of the BigPicture project”

13:15 Round table: The future of computational pathology
13:45 Closure & Lunch

Venue

The CLARIFY Final conference  will take place at Vera Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV) in the building complex called the Politechnic City of Innovation (Ciudad Politecninca de la Innovación – CPI).

Event Reception Location: Assembly Hall Red Cube at CPI-UPV.

Event Address: CPI-UPV. Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia – Spain

CPI-UPV

The Polytechnic City of Innovation  is the Science Park of the Universitat Politècnica de València. The Science Park is conceived as a space, not only in physical terms, to connect university, business and society in order to streamline the generation of knowledge-intensive activities. 

Main Entrance to CPI-UPV

This is the main entrance to CPI-UPV. You can reach it on foot, by public transport (the bus and tram stops right in front of it) or by bicycle, which you can park under the CPI building.

Access to the Auditorium

Access to the stairs or the lift, to reach the third floor of the building, where the Assembly where the final CLARIFY conference will take place is located.

CLARIFY Final Conference main entrance

Red Cube inside which the auditorium where the final CLARIFY conference will take place.

Invited speakers

Geert Litjens

Geert Litjens

Member of BigPicture project

Lukas Ruff

Lukas Ruff

Head of Data Science at Aignostics

Paula Toro

Paula Toro

Pathologist Global Medical Affairs Roche Tissue Diagnostics

Adrián Colomer

Adrián Colomer

Co-founder of ArtiKode Intelligence

Call for abstracts

We invite the submission of abstracts related to the themes of the conference. The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Artificial intelligence methods applied to histological images

Cloud-oriented data infrastructure and algorithms applied to histological images

Computer-aided diagnosis tools from histological images

Content-based image retrieval tools from histological images

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • Abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
  • Add up to 5 keywords
  • Abstracts should be sent in English.
  • Abstracts from already published high-quality work (e.g. recently submitted conference/journal papers, recently published conference/journal papers) are accepted and encouraged.

REVIEW PROCESS

  • Abstract proposals will be evaluated through a blind peer review. The review will look at the clarity of content, quality, rigour, interest, and usefulness of content to conference attendees.
  • Selected abstracts will be presented in a poster session at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Start of abstract submission: 1 October 2023
  • Abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2023 10 December 2023
  • Notification of accepted abstracts: 15 December 2023 22 December 2023

Poster session

Friday, 26th January 2024 10:15

  • THE KI67 DILEMMA; Comparison of Prognostic Thresholds Quantified by Conventional and Four Digital Image Analysis Methods in Breast Cancer

Speaker: Emiel A. M. Janssen – Stavanger University Hospital

  • Making easy glomerular pathology diagnosis

Speaker: N. Pérez – Universitat Jaume I

  • Bridging Resolutions through Knowledge Distillation

Speaker: Rocío del Amor – Universitat Politècnica de València

  • Enhancing Ulcerative Colitis Histological Image Segmentation with an Active Learning Framework

Speaker: Fernando García-Torres – Universitat Politècnica de València

  • Multiple Instance Zero- and few-shot classification of skin cancer subtypes with vision language models

Speaker: Pablo Meseguer – Universitat Politècnica de València

  • Towards an automatic diagnosis of Ewing’s sarcoma

Speaker: Álvaro Pastor – Universitat Politècnica de València

    • Addressing Class Imbalance: Conditional Progressive Growing GAN for Synthesizing Prostate Patches

    Speaker: Alejandro Golfe– Universitat Politècnica de València

    • GLORIA: Globalization of a telepathology network with artificial intelligence applications in Colombia: The GLORIA program study protocol

    Speaker: Andrés Mosquera – INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute

    Registration & fees

    There is no charge for attendance and the logistical and food/beverage arragement have been paid through the CLARIFY project as part of its dissemination responsibility.

    ONSITE Registration is now Closed!

    ONLINE Registration is Open until January, 18th

    STANDARD ACCESS

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              ✓ Keynote Speakers

              ✓ Sessions 

              ✓ Coffee Breaks

              ✓ Lunches

    Organizers

    And the rest of the CLARIFY partners:

    Contact us

    Computer Vision & Behavior Analysis Lab (CVBLab)

    Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Tecnología Centrada en el Ser Humano (HUMAN-tech) – Universitat Politècnica de València

    Camino de Vera s/n,

    46022 Valencia (España)

    Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación

    Edificio 8B – Cubo Azul – Acceso N