Ruusuvuori lab
Nisar’s poster placed 2nd out of 108 entries at the 35th BioCity Symposium in Turku, where he presented work on AI driven bioimage analysis and histopathology under the SYS-Life programme. He also co-chaired the session “Cell Dynamics, Mechanobiology and Disease Mechanisms”.
Hyder Abbas, Sonja Koivukoski, Hesam Hakimnejad, Zsombor Malatinszki, Tuomas Mäkilä, Leena Latonen and Pekka won the Best Paper Award at the 6th IEEE Conference on ICT Solutions for eHealth in Vilamoura, Portugal, for “Transfer Learning Based on Generative Adversarial Network for Tissue-Specific Virtual Staining”. The group also presented a second paper at the conference, “StainFlow: Virtual Staining of Label-Free Tissue via Flow-Based Generative Models”, by Hesam Hakimnejad, Sonja Koivukoski, Leena Latonen and Pekka.
ComPatAI, led by Pekka together with co-PIs Leena Latonen from the University of Eastern Finland and Artturi Mäkinen from Fimlab and Tampere University Hospital, was awarded computing resources in the 7th Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Call. The consortium is building a foundation model for computational pathology using up to 1 million whole-slide images from Finnish university hospitals.