Image analysis experts and board-certified pathologists team up to offer on-line digital pathology training in image analysis
Flagstaff, AZ – June 5, 2010 – Flagship Biosciences LLC, a provider of digital pathology services, launches on-line training program for image analysis in digital pathology. The first course is a once a week six-week series and is designed to allow adequate time in between courses for pathologists to practice what they have learned. This is the first time that a digital pathology course has been offered by a combined team of image analysis scientists and veteran pathologists. “Quantitative pathology requires reproducible histology and immunohistochemistry procedures, followed by a pathologist who completely understands the image analysis that is being run on a whole slide image,” said Frank Voelker, a Senior Pathologist at Flagship Biosciences, and one of the instructors. “This course series is the first of its kind to discuss what happens to the tissue and the slide prior to image analysis, along with the actual image analysis procedures themselves.”
“Having been involved in the pharmaceutical development and the development of IHC-based companion diagnostics tests, I have seen first-hand a widespread lack of knowledge in the clinical trials pathology community on the theory and practice of these algorithms in real-life tissues,” said David Young, President of Flagship. “There is an unmet need in the industry for experienced-based training in digital image analysis techniques. Due to the heavy workload of many pathologists, there is often little time to devote to attendance at a two-day course offsite and this type of digital pathology training allows us to conduct remote training in a group setting. This type of training is essential for pathologists to learn analytic techniques regardless of their algorithm software.”
The courses will begin with simple tools and measurements and proceed to more advanced image analysis tools and platforms. Pathologists or pathology scientists can sign-up online at the digital pathology training website, as space is limited.
*Update- As of 2013, on-line training is no longer offered.
