Third CTS Ontology Workshop

Ontology and Imaging Informatics

• Venue: Ramada Inn Hotel and Conference Center, Amherst, NY 14068
• Dates

• Tutorial: June 23, 2014
• Workshop: June 24-25, 2014

• Goals: The goal of this meeting is to identify ways to advance interoperability of biomedical imaging data across the CTSA Consortium and beyond. Examples of the types of subtopics to be addressed include:

LIMS interoperability

Immunohistochemistry Imaging

Standards for biomedical video data

The Open Microscopy Environment (OME)

The Radiology Gamuts Ontology

Aperio ePathology

Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)

• Further information: Barry Smith

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 (Stanford University): 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 - 12:30 Digital Pathology across the CTSA Consortium: Identifying what there is

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Michael Becich: An Overview of Standards and Initiatives in Digital Pathology

14:30 - 17:00 Identifying successful ontology-based initiatives in Digital Pathology and Imaging Research

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

Hackathon: Building an Ontology for Digital Pathology

CTS Ontology Affinity Group

Other breakout sessions may be organized according to demand

16:00 Close

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Sponsors

• Department of Pathology and Anatomy, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo

• National Center for Biomedical Ontology

• IKFC Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Affinity Group.

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Organizing Committee

Barry Smith (Buffalo)

William Hogan (Arkansas)

John Tomaszewski (Buffalo)