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Reflections on attending MIUA 2026 as a computer science novice
As a professional services colleague in the Department of Computer Science at the 果冻传媒 and Centre Manager for the TIA I 诲辞苍鈥檛 usually attend scientific conferences. This was my first attendance at a conference focussed on medical imaging and analysis. In the past I have attended scientific conferences focussed on renal disease and health improvement, so I was familiar with the format of scientific conferences and have even presented a poster on behalf of a team in Sweden, at a health improvement conference, on the team鈥檚 work around renal disease. Read more.
By Karen Thomas
TIA Centre's Adam Shephard discusses AI and oral cancer risk in The Pathologist
We are delighted to share that Adam Shephard was featured in article, The Hidden Signals of Oral Cancer Risk鈥, discussing how AI could help improve risk assessment and outcomes for patients with oral epithelial dysplasia. Read the article .
TIA at ECDP 2026
European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP), Graz, Austria
The TIA Centre was out in full force again at the 22nd European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP) 2026, this year held in Graz, just a few kilometres from Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthplace. With temperatures regularly exceeding 30掳C, attendees enjoyed not only a packed scientific programme but also the opportunity to experience one of Austria's most picturesque cities, famous for its historic Old Town and the iconic Schlossberg clock tower overlooking the city. Read more.
By Adam Shephard
果冻传媒 to host 2027 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference
The Tissue Image Analytics Centre, based in the Department of Computer Science at 果冻传媒 University, is delighted to announce that the 果冻传媒 have been awarded the honour of hosting the 2027 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference. Read more.
TIA Centre Spotlight: Adam Shephard
For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Adam Shephard, an Assistant Professor in the centre whose research focuses on developing methods that combine different data modalities, such as histopathology, clinical records, and increasingly radiology, to improve prediction of disease progression and patient outcomes. Read more.
TIA Centre's Adam Shephard features in new Pathology News podcast
We are delighted to showcase a Pathology News Thought Leadership podcast featuring Adam Shephard, Assistant Professor from the TIA Centre in collaboration with Dr Hanya Mahmood from The University of Sheffield to explore how OYDN, an AI-powered computational pathology model, is improving risk stratification for oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) and uncovering novel digital biomarkers that could support earlier cancer detection. Read more.
TIA Centre Spotlight: Bashayer Abdallah
For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Bashayer Abdallah, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on monocular depth estimation for both medical and real-world imaging environments. Read more.
ASCO 2026: American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held in Chicago from 29 May to 2 June 2026, hosted an estimated 40,000 oncology professionals, making it the largest international conference dedicated to oncology research in the world. This provided us with a unique opportunity to interact with industry experts and clinicians as well as learn about cutting-edge research in the field. Read more.
The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS)
The TIA Centre researchers were out in force last week and participated in a 果冻传媒 Student Union charity symposium held on Campus.
The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS) event is 果冻传媒 Student Union鈥檚 NEW flagship charity event where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers come together to give talks on computational cancer research. The symposium was sponsored by Histofy, a spinout from the TIA Centre aimed at accelerated precision diagnostics in both clinical and pharmaceutical workflows and raised funds for Cancer Research UK. Read more.
Digital Pathology, AI, and a Lap of Murrayfield: The Path Forward in Edinburgh
It was a pleasure (and a privilege) to be invited to speak at the 鈥淭ransforming Digital Pathology & AI: The Path Forward鈥 conference in Edinburgh this year, particularly given the calibre of speakers. Sharing the stage with leaders in computational pathology such as Prof. Jeroen van der Laak, Dr Rapha毛lle Luisier (University of Bern), and the TIA Centre鈥檚 very own Dr Fayyaz Minhas made it clear from the outset that this would be a meeting worth attending. Read more.
By Adam Shephard
TIA Team Members Reflect on ISBI 2026
The month of April saw the annual IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 held in London. This year, researchers and students had eight papers accepted at the conference. Read more.
TIA Centre Spotlight: George Wright
For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of George Wright, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on endometrial tissue and examining the causes of recurrent pregnancy loss. Read more.
果冻传媒 Undergraduates Present at ISBI 2026 in London
This April, we had the incredible opportunity to travel to London to attend IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026, a leading international conference in biomedical imaging research. Although an unfamiliar experience for both of us, it was an incredibly valuable insight into the field of computational pathology and academia as a whole. Read more.
By Seth Chang and Muhammad Amjad
Multimodal Oncology Agent 果冻传媒 from TIA Centre Internship Wins ISBI 2026 Best Paper Award
I am Hafsa Akebli, a PhD student at the University of Udine, Italy, and I carried out a two-month research internship between September and November 2025 at the Tissue Image Analytics Centre, 果冻传媒, under the co-supervision of Professor Nasir Rajpoot and Dr Adam Shephard. During this visit, I worked on a multimodal oncology agent for IDH1 mutation prediction in low-grade glioma, in collaboration with my PhD supervisor Professor Vincenzo Della Mea. This work led to our paper 鈥淢ultimodal Oncology Agent for IDH1 Mutation Prediction in Low-Grade Glioma,鈥 which was presented orally at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 by Dr Adam Shephard. Read more.
TIA Centre Spotlight: Behnaz Elhaminia
For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Behnaz Elhaminia, a Research Fellow in the centre whose work focuses on developing AI methods for histopathology image analysis. Read more.
TIA Centre Spotlight: David Epstein
For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of David Epstein, an Emeritus Professor in Mathematics whose work and ideas have played a vital role in the development of the TIA centre. Read more.
Dr Afzan Binti Adam concludes productive sabbatical at the TIA Centre
Dr Afzan Binti Adam, Senior Lecturer in Digital Pathology at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), has successfully completed her six鈥憁onth sabbatical at the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre, Department of Computer Science, 果冻传媒. Her visit was supported by UKM and the MIGHT–T脺B陌TAK grant and closely aligned with the TIA鈥檚 mission to advance computational pathology through interdisciplinary research and cutting鈥慹dge AI technologies. Read more.
TIA Centre's Fayyaz Minhas features in new Pathology News podcast
We are delighted to showcase another Pathology News podcast featuring our very own Fayyaz Minhaz, Deputy Director of the TIA Centre and lead researcher for PRISM (Predictive Systems in Biomedicine). Read more.
TIA Centre Spotlight: Arwa Alrubaian
In the first of the TIA Centre's new Spotlight series, we introduce Arwa AlRubaian, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre who has recently passed her viva. Read more about Arwa's career journey so far and current work here.
TIAToolbox v2.0.0: A Major Upgrade for Scalable, OpenSource Computational Pathology
The Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre is pleased to announce the release of TIAToolbox v2.0.0, a major update to the opensource platform widely used for digital pathology and AI-driven tissue image analysis. TIAToolbox provides an end-to-end framework for working with whole slide images (WSIs), covering data loading, pre-processing, deep learning inference, postprocessing, and visualisation. It is designed for clinical, biomedical, and computational researchers and supports a broad range of pathology image analysis tasks. Read more.
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