Ruusuvuori lab
Pekka gave a talk at the 38th European Society of Pathology Congress in Stockholm on virtual staining as an alternative to H&E for diagnostic pathology. The talk was part of the session “AI in pathology: from automation to clinical decision support”, chaired by Johan Hartman and Eugenia Aleman Colón.
At the 30th anniversary Medical Image Understanding and Analysis conference in Dublin, Pekka presented a new paper by Hesam Hakimnejad, Sonja Koivukoski, Leena Latonen and Pekka: “Residual Shifting-Based Diffusion Models for Virtual H&E Staining”. The method offers a more computationally efficient way to generate virtual H&E stains from unstained tissue.
Hesam Hakimnejad, Hanga Tárkányi and Niloufar Rahimizadeh Asli represented the group at the 22nd European Congress on Digital Pathology in Graz, Austria, presenting our virtual staining research. Our collaborator Leena Latonen from the University of Eastern Finland gave an invited talk, and travel was supported by the InFLAMES Research Flagship.
Our collaborator Sonja Koivukoski from the University of Eastern Finland defended her PhD thesis, “Applicability of virtual staining in histological whole slide images”. Prof. Johanna Arola acted as opponent, with Leena Latonen as custos and Pekka as second supervisor. Congratulations, Sonja!
Umair Khan defended his PhD thesis, “AI-driven image-to-image translation for histopathology”, at the University of Turku. Nataša Sladoje from Uppsala University acted as opponent, with Pekka as custos and supervisor and Leena Latonen as co-supervisor. It’s the first virtual-staining-focused PhD completed in Finland, congratulations Umair!