| 7:00-7:30 | Breakfast | ||
Fundamentals of Pathology Informatics Workshop ST. GEORGE AB | |||
7:30-7:45 | What is Pathology Informatics and Why should I care? | ||
7:45-8:30 | Computer Basics - Bits to Networks | ||
8:30-9:15 | Fundamentals of Databases | ||
9:15-10:00 | Introduction to Laboratory Information Systems | ||
10:00-10:30 | Break | ||
10:30-11:15 | Digital Imaging and Telemicroscopy | ||
11:15-12:00 | Bioinformatics: Practical Applications in Pathology | ||
Advanced API Workshop: Advanced Tutorials in Contemporary AP-LIS Issues: Workflow Optimization, Asset Tracking and Synoptic Reporting ST. GEORGE CD | |||
1:00–1:45 | Manageable Quality Measures in Anatomical Pathology | ||
1:45–2:15 | An example of a fully deployed solution, rendered as middleware | ||
2:15–3:00 | Real-time tracking issues and logistics analysis intrinsic to AP tracking | ||
3:00–3:30 | Break | ||
3:30–4:15 | Anatomic Pathology Information - Tracking and Routing at Massachusetts General Hospital | ||
4:15–5:00 | Quality systems and Quality Measures in AP Tracking systems | ||
5:00–5:50 | Break. Light hors d’oeuvre. | ||
5:50–6:40 | Overview of Synoptic Reporting in Surgical Pathology | ||
6:40–7:00 | Discussion panel. All faculty members | ||
HIMA Workshop STAFFORDSHIRE | |||
1:00–1:45 | Sequential Imaging Techniques for Multimodal Microscopy Imaging and Auto Fluorescence Removal Dr. Ali Can View Presentation (File is over 135M and may take a while to load) | ||
1:45–2:15 | Image Object Detection and Segmentation | ||
2:15–3:00 | Feature Extraction in Histopathology Images | ||
3:00–3:20 | Break | ||
3:30–4:15 | Searching for a Few Good Features | ||
4:15–5:00 | Manifold Learning and Object Classification | ||
5:00–5:50 | Break. Light hors d’oeuvre. | ||
5:50–6:40 | Visual Experience in Digital Pathology | ||
6:40–7:10 | Cell-Based Quantification of Molecular Biomarkers in Histopathology Specimens by Multi-Spectral Imaging and Automated Analysis | ||
7:10-7:40 | Computer-Assisted Histopathological Image Analysis for Whole-Slide Images | ||
7:40–8:10 | Graph-based Features for Prognosis Prediction in Digital Pathology | ||
8:10–8:40 | Endoscopic Mircoscopy: Bridging the Radiology-Pathology Divide | ||
8:40-9:00 | Discussion Panel. All faculty members. | ||
| 7:00-7:30 | Breakfast | ||
7:30–8:45 Scientific Sessions | Session #1 - BIOREPOSITORIES Lyman Garniss - Using a Commercial LIS as the Gateway to an Enterprise Bio-Repository (View Presentation) Ashokkumar Patel - Integrated Informatics Systems for Clinical and Basic Research: Supporting the Ohio Brain Tumor Study (View Presentation - no sound) Mark Watson - Adoption and Use of caTissue in a Multi-Repository Academic Environment (View Presentation - no sound) David Foran - Data Ready: A Deployable Data Management and Integration System for Large-Scale Cancer Repositories and Intelligent Databases (View Presentation -no sound) Zachery von Menchhofen - Controlled Vocabluaries for Bio-Repositories - An Integrated, Simplified Approach: Keeping It's Structure Simple (KISS) Session #2 - LAB WORKFLOW John Sinard - Histology Asset Tracking: Hidden Practices and Their Consequences (View Presentation - ppt) John Sinard - Histology Asset Tracking Dashboard: Real-Time Monitoring and Dynamic Work Lists (View Presentation - no sound) Kavous Roumina - Development of a Web-Based System for Managing Requests for LIS Data Searches in a Distributed Laboratory Environment (View Presentation - ppt) Kavous Roumina - Capture, Analysis and Management of Patient Wait Times for Outpatient Phlebotomy (View Presentation- ppt) Michael Blechner - Lab Monitor: A Client Based Application for Distribution of Customizable Electonic Tracking Boards for Clinical Laboratories Session #3 - LAB WORKFLOW Gaurav Sharma - Reduction in Slide Label Mis-Identifications Due to Implementation of 2 Dimensional Bar Coding in the Anatomic Pathology Laboratory at a Tertiary Care Hospital (View Presentation - ppt) Philip Boyer - Gross Photography Workstations: Critical Evaluation and Decision Analysis in an Academic Medical Center Setting (View Presentation - ppt) Curtis Stratman - AP-LIS Integration in Support of Pathologists' Digital Workflow (View Presentation - ppt) Maura Bidinost - Usability: Critical to Successful Adoption of Digital Pathology for Routine Sign-Out (View Presentation -ppt) Gina Clarke - Whole Specimen Breast Histopathology Imaging for More Accurate Tumor Measurements Session #4 - IMAGING Maristela Onozato - Virtual Biopsy of Human Kidney Using Optical Coherence Tomography (View Presentation) Rushin Shojaii - 3D Histology Volume Reconstruction (View Presentation) Hideaki Haneishi - Three-Dimensional Imaging Synthesis From a Set of Two-Dimensional Serial Pathological Images (View Presentation) Fangru Lian - Surgical Pathology Quality Assurance Program Using Real-Time Telepathology (View Presentation) Sourabh Khire - Intial Results with ZPEG: The Z-Stack Image Encoder (View Presentation) Session #5 - DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE ANALYSIS Johan Lundin - A Texture Analysis Method for Identification of Tumor Stroma vs. Epithelium in Digitized Tumor Samples (View Presentation) Sharath Cholleti - Classification of Brain tumor Regions (View Presentation) David Martin - Automated Image Analysis for Detection of Breast Carcinoma Cells in Surgical Specimens (View Presentation) Frank Voelker - Quantitative Measurement of Fat and Muscle in Whole Section Histology Analysis (View Presentation) Xin Qi - Optimizing Specimen Preparation and Multi-Spectral Imaging Protocols to Accomodate Automated Assessment of Expression in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (View Presentation) Session #6 - HUMAN INTERFACES FOR IMAGING Michael Riben - Optimizing Access to Digital Pathology Slides: Overcoming User Interface Limitations and the Case-Centric Paradigm Yinhai Wang - Multitouch and Microsoft Surface as an Interface to Pathology Virtual Slides Roy Lee - Evaluation and Optimization for Cytopathology in Whole Slide Imaging (View Presentation) Fusheng Wang - Developing Data Model Standards and Databases for Pathology Analytical Imaging Claudia Mello-Thoms - Analysis of Digital Slide Exploration Characteristics of Expert Pathologists | ||
| Monday Morning Breakout Sessions | ||
| AP/CP LIS Integration St. George AB | The Future of Diagnostics St. George CD | Implementation and Validation Staffordshire |
9:00-9:40 | Advantages and Integration of Multi-Vendor LIS Environment | Informatics of Tissue Microarrays | Integrated Diagnostics: The Perspective of a Radiologist |
9:40-10:20 | Advantages of a Single Vendor AP/CP LIS | Measuring and Communicating the Value of Diagnostic Tests | Integrated Diagnostics: The Perspective of a Pathologist |
10:20-11:10 | Break and Browse Exhibits | ||
11:10–11:50 | A Blueprint for the LIS and Lab Data Architecture of the Future | Training in Pathology Informatics: Lecture, Rotation, Fellowship and Beyond | Deploying a Department or Enterprise-wide Image Server |
11:50-12:00 | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch Break CAP Foundation Travel Awardee Luncheon | ||
| Monday Plenary Sessions | ||
1:00-1:40 | The Future Direction of Health Care Information Technology Staffordshire | ||
1:40-2:20 | Development of In-Vivo and Super-Resolution Imaging Staffordshire | ||
| 2:20-2:30 | Introduction to the Laboratory Information Digital Exchange (LIDDEX) Project Staffordshire | ||
2:30-3:30 | Break and Browse Exhibits | ||
| Middleware St. George AB | Modeling In Pathology St. George CD | Integrated Imaging and Diagnosis Staffordshire |
3:30–4:15 | The Modernization of IVD Connectivity | A Systems Biology Model of Anemia Derived From Clinical Laboratory Data | Implementation and Validation of Clinical WSI |
4:15-4:55 | POCT: An IT Perspective | Numerical and Population Models of Disease Progression, Interventions and Outcomes | Implementation and Validation of Tele-pathology |
4:55-5:15 | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A |
| Adjournment for the day | ||
5:30-7:30 | Pathology Informatics 2010 OPENING RECEPTION | ||
| 7:00-7:30 | Breakfast | ||
7:30–8:45 Scientific Sessions | Session #1 - EDUCATION Edward Klatt - Podcasting the 5-Minute University (View Presentation) Richard Haspel - the Future Pathologist: A Curriculum in Genomics and Personalized Medicine for Pathology Residents (View Presentation) David McClintock - Using an Open Source Content Management System in an Academic Pathology Department: A Model for Creating Easy-to-Maintain and Easy to Use Departmental Project Websites (View Presentation) Yao Schmidt - An Internet-Based Neuropathology Curriculum: Objective-Focused Content in an ACGME Wrapper Gregory Kotnis - "Fair Use" of Copyrighted Material in Graduate Medical Education Curricula: Opportunities and Risks (View Presentation) Session #2 - LAB WORKFLOW William Yong - A Protocol for Testing Tolerance of Radio Frequency Identification Tags to Procedures and Conditions Encountered in an Anatomic Pathology or Biorepository Laboratory Peter Gershkovich - FSLink-Frozen Section Management Software with Real-Time Communication with the OR (View Presentation) Peter Gershkovich - Concurrent Event Monitoring in Anatomic Pathology (View Presentation) Michael Riben - Patient Safety Initiatives at the Grossing Bench: Design, Implementation and Experience with Bar-Code Driven Specimen-Block Reconciliation for Biosy Grossing Li Xiong - De-Identifying Pathology Reports for Pathology Informatics (View Presentation) Session #3 - DIAGNOSTIC INTERPRETATION Fred Crowgey - Using Artificial Intelligence Software as a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Laboratory Results: First Increased Troponin - I Alert Project (View Presentation) Glenn Edwards - Automated Patient-Specific Interpretative Reporting for Chronic Disease Management in the Clinical Laboratory (View Presentation) Peter Higgins - Thiopurine Metabolites Indexed Assay Calculation as a Grid-Enabled Rules Engine Via the LIDDEx Consortium's Grid Services Architecture in Support of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Management (View Presentation) John Madden - Pre-Signout AJC Breast Cancer Checklist Protocol Decision Support (View Presentation) Gaurav Sharma - A Preliminary Analysis of the Pathology Informatics Lecture Session #4 - COLOR & COMPRESSION Pinky Bautista - A Study on Color Standardization in Whole Slide Imaging (View Presentation) Takeshi Otsuka - Color Standardization (View Presentation) Anurag Sharma - The Effect of Compression Factor on Special Stains Whole Slide Images (View Presentation) Saunya Williams - Compression Effects on Computer-Based Morphological Studies (View Presentation) Danoush Hosseinzadeh - Selective Decoding for Digital Microscopy Images Using the Sedeen Viewer Session #5 - EDU_IMAGING Gaurav Sharma - Development of a Head and Neck Pathology Digital Slide Teaching Set for Trainee Education (View Presentation) Nikita Orlov - Pathology and Pattern Recognition: Implementation, Challenges and Solutions (View Presentation) Peter Hamilton - An On-line Virtual Learning Environment for Undergraduate Education in Pathology (Presentation Not Available) Peter Hamilton - Application of Virtual Mircoscopy in the Teaching of Microscopic Anatomy (Presentation Not Available) Peter Hamilton - An On-Line Diagnostic Simulation Platform for Training and Skill Acquisition in Pathology (Presentation Not Available) Session #6 - TISSUE MICROARRAYS / BIOREPOSITORIES / IMAGING Ian Hagemann - Automated Lymphocyte Counting in Tissue Microarrays (View Presentation) Yinhai Wang - High Performance Computing for Tissue Microarray Analysis (View Presentation) Jason Hipp - SIVQ-Assisted Computer-Aided Laser Capture Microdissesion - A Novel Tool for Morphogenomics and High-Throughput Expression Studies (View Presentation) Waqas Amin - Development and Experience with Tissue Banking Tools to Support Cancer Research (View Presentation) Robert Leif - Unification of CytometryML, DICOM and Flow Cytometry Standard (View Presentation) | ||
9:00–11:50 | Tuesday Morning Breakout Sessions | ||
| LIS and the Enterprise St. George AB | Molecular Pathology Informatics St. George CD | Imaging Staffordshire |
9:00-9:40 | Considerations in Evaluating and Implementing Positive Patient ID Systems for Specimen Collection | Barriers to Clinical Lab Interpretive Reporting | Spectroscopy and Quantitative Microscopy in Pathology Imaging |
9:40-10:20 | LIS, POE and Lab Formularies | Informatics for the Molecular Diagnostics Lab | Quantitative Histocytometry |
10:20-11:10 | Break and Browse Exhibits | ||
11:10–11:50 | The LIS and the EMR: Convergence and Conflict | Informatics of Broad Cancer Genotyping | Imaging in Cytology |
11:50-12:00 | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| Tuesday Plenary Sessions | ||
1:00-1:40 | Staffordshire | ||
1:40-2:20 | Staffordshire | ||
2:20-3:20 | Break and Browse Exhibits | ||
| Automation St. George AB | Pathology and Public Health St. George CD | Imaging Staffordshire |
3:20–4:00 | |||
4:00–4:45 | |||
4:45-5:00 | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A | Track panelists: Q and A |
| Adjournment for the day | ||
6:00-8:00pm | EXHIBITOR DEMONSTRATIONS Staffordshire and St. George Rooms Schedule TBD | ||
| 7:30-8:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Wednesday Plenary Sessions Staffordshire | ||
8:00–8:45 | Political and Strategic Aspects of Employing Digital Pathology in Pathology Departments Dr. John Pfeifer | ||
8:45-9:30 | Informatics, Imaging and the Future of the Pathlogy Department | ||
9:30–10:00 | Break and Browse Exhibits | ||
9:30–10:00 | Future of Pathology Informatics – The Informatics Rich Pathology Department Model | ||
10:45-11:30 | Future of Pathology Informatics – The Biomedical Department Model | ||
11:30-12:00 | Conference Recap, Summary and Awards | ||
| Conference Adjournment | ||


