News and reflections from the world of AI

Aiforia Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board

Aiforia, a leading provider of deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for image analysis across a variety of medical domains, announces its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board. The four advisors represent world-class expertise in clinical diagnostics, personalized medicine, digital and computational pathology.

PD-L1 case study: interview with Liesbeth Hondelink

“When I first started, I did not know anything about AI,” describes Liesbeth Hondelink, MSc student at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, when she applied to the aiForward program. Her research focuses on PD-L1, a protein which has gained much popularity in a field that has been under the spotlight for some time now: cancer immunotherapy. Liesbeth and her lab are specifically ...

Aiforia secures U.S. patent for high-speed AI training tool in medical image analysis

Aiforia, a leading provider of deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for image analysis across a variety of medical domains, has been granted U.S. Patent No. 10,803,586 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent covers the techniques deployed by Aiforia's active learning tool, Annotation Assistant, for the accelerated development of AI models for image ...

Interview with Lauren Prince, Pathology Intern at CRL and Aiforia

Tell us about your internship at Charles River Laboratories and Aiforia:  

Interview with Kevin Sandeman: driving one of the world’s largest digital transformations in pathology

Skåne, a southern county of Sweden, recently completed one of the largest adoptions of digital pathology in the world. Four labs, 14 scanners, and an estimated 890,746 slides were used and scanned from May 2019 to July 2020.  At the helm of this feat, pushing forward the digitization of these pathology labs, is Kevin Sandeman. We interviewed him to hear about the process of going digital, what ...

COVID-19 case study: enhancing research with AI

Where do you work and what do you do there? I am a physician/researcher in Bethesda, Maryland, where I am a director of the Foundation for the Study of Inflammatory Disease (FSID), Laboratory Director of a high complexity clinical testing laboratory (T Lab Inc.), Chief Medical Office oF Galaxy Diagnostics (GalaxyDx.com), and medical director of a private medical practice (Translational Medicine ...