Ontology and Imaging Informatics
Ontology and the Future of Laboratory Information
Third Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop
- Tutorial: June 23, 2014
- Workshop: June 24-25, 2014
- Venue: Ramada Inn Hotel and Conference Center, Amherst, NY 14068. For logistics details, including access to special hotel room rate, please contact Sandra Smith.
Goals
The goal of this meeting is to advance discoverability, interoperability and combinability of biomedical imaging data. It consists of a tutorial providing an introduction to imaging ontology, followed by two days of presentation and discussion of major contributions to biomedical imaging in radiology and digital pathology. The meeting will include community breakout groups addressing specific communities, including the CTSA consortium.
- Day 0 of the workshop will consist in a tutorial providing an introduction to biomedical imaging ontology.
- Day 1 of the workshop will consist in an overview of major contributions to biomedical imaging in radiology and digital pathology with a view towards coordination and exchange of ideas.
- Day 2 will consist of a number of breakout groups addressing specific goals of their respective communities. One such group will focus on a draft Digital Pathology Image Ontology, which will be distributed to interested participants in advance. Another group will address the role of ontology in the coordination of research across the CTSA consortium.
The meeting will conclude with reports from the breakout groups and with a session devoted to future plans.
Examples of the types of subtopics to be addressed include:
- Space for this meeting is limited and intending participants are encouraged to write to Barry Smith as soon as possible.
Draft Schedule: Tutorial
Monday, June 23
Tutorial
10:00 Registration
10:30 Ulysses Balis (Michigan): Introduction to Imaging Informatics: The Problem of Image Data Interoperability
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Barry Smith (Buffalo): Introduction to Ontology for Imaging Informatics
15:00 Break
15:30 William Hogan (Arkansas): Ontology in the CTSA Consortium
Draft Schedule: Workshop
Tuesday, June 24
- 8:30 Breakfast and Registration
- 9:15 Participant Introductions
- 9:30 Keynote Address: Daniel Rubin: Imaging Big Data
- Driving use cases for imaging in the era of Big Data
- The central role of imaging ontology
- Example projects using ontologies
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Michael J. Becich: An Overview of Standards and Initiatives in Digital Pathology
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:00 Charles Kahn: Radiology Gamuts Ontology: Differential Diagnosis in Radiology
- 14:00 Metin N. Gurcan, Anant Madabhushi and John Tomaszewski: Histopathological Image Analysis (HIMA) and Ontology
- 15:00 Break
- 15:30 Sessions will include:
- Andrew H. Beck: Imaging Informatics and Ontologies for the Development and Dissemination of Integrative Cancer Diagnostics
- Paolo Ciccarese Interoperable Biomedical Image Annotations. Describing and Linking Biomedical Images through Open Annotation and Domain Ontologies
- Alexander Diehl: The NIF / ImmPort Antibody Registries
Wednesday, June 25
- 8:30 Breakfast
- 9:00 Digital Pathology: Practical sessions devoted to creating a strategy to promote interoperability of digital pathology data and systems
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:00 Group Meetings
- 1. Hackathon: Building an Ontology for Digital Pathology
- 2. CTS Ontology Affinity Group
- Topics to be addressed will include:
- The Ontology for Medically Relevant Social Entities (OMRSE),
- Biobanking
- Referent Tracking
- Other breakout sessions will be organized according to demand
16:00 Close
Sponsors
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo
- Department of Pathology and Anatomy, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
- This meeting forms part of a series of ontology workshops sponsored by the NCBO. A precursor event in this series, devoted to the ontology of images, was held in 2006.
Organizing Committee
- Barry Smith (Buffalo)
- William Hogan (Arkansas)
- John Tomaszewski (Buffalo)
Participants will include
Sivaram Arabandi (Houston)
Ulysses J. Balis (Ann Arbor)
Carol Bean (NCBO / Stanford)
Michael Becich (Pittsburgh)
Andrew H. Beck (Harvard)
Tanja Bekhuis (Pittsburgh)
Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)
Wiam Bshara (Buffalo)
Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)
Paolo Ciccarese (Harvard)
Chris Crowner (Buffalo)
Alexander Diehl (Buffalo)
Michael Dwyer (Buffalo)
Peter Elkin (Buffalo)
Carmelo Gaudioso (Buffalo)
Bernard Gibaud (MedCIS, Rennes)
Allan S. Goldberg (Touro University, California)
Metin Gurcan (Ohio)
William Hogan (Arkansas)
Charles E. Kahn (Milwaukee)
Venkat N. Krovi (Buffalo)
Anant Madabhushi (Case)
Anna Maria Masci (Duke)
James A. Overton (Knocean, Toronto)
Daniel Rubin (Stanford)
Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
Ferdinand Schweser (Buffalo)
Barry Smith (Buffalo)
Jose Luis Tapia (Buffalo)
John Tomaszewski (Buffalo)
Amber Worral (Buffalo)
