June 16, 2018 – Shivam Kalra, a PhD student at Kimia Lab, has received the Governor General Gold Medal for his academic excellence during his MSc. studies. “For more than 140 years, the Governor General’s Academic Medals have recognized the outstanding scholastic achievements of students in Canada. They are awarded to the student graduating with the highest average from a high school, as well as from approved […]
June 6, 2018 – Insights from industry: Dr. Hamid R. TizhooshProfessor Faculty of EngineeringUniversity of Waterloo – An interview with Professor Hamid Tizhoosh, conducted by James Ives Please give an overview of the past research into machine learning and artificial intelligence in medical imaging. What are we currently able to do with this research? The two major tasks in medical imaging that appear to be naturally predestined to be […]
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 14, 2018 – University of Waterloo’s Kimia Lab announced today that its AI project for digital pathology has been awarded a grant by the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence program (ORF-RE). The project aims to develop an intelligent search engine for digital pathology that can retrieve relevant cases from large archives, auto-caption the images, and facilitate consensus building. “Digital pathology has opened new […]
May 9, 2018 – Huron Digital Pathology announced today that Dr. Hamid Tizhoosh, Director of the KIMIA Lab at the University of Waterloo and Huron advisory board member, will present a talk entitled “Faster, Better, More Reliable than Deep Features: A Projection-Based, Pathologist-Centric Approach to Identification of Histopathology Images” at the Pathology Informatics Summit on May 22, 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA. The company also announced its research collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical […]