Third CTS Ontology Workshop

Special Focus:

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

Standards for biomedical video data

The Open Microscopy Environment (OME)

• Further information: Barry Smith

Draft Schedule: Tutorial

Monday, June 23</u\>

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 by Daniel Rubin (Stanford University)

10:30 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Presentations

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 17:00 Presentations

Wednesday, June 25

8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Digital Pathology across the CTSA Consortium: What there is and how ontology can join it all together

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

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 Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Affinity Group. The CTS Ontology Affinity Group has been established to leverage the use of common ontologies to support different aspects of information-driven clinical and translational research.