Ontology and Imaging Informatics
Third Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop
- Venue: Ramada Inn Hotel and Conference Center, Amherst, NY 14068
- Tutorial: June 23, 2014
- Workshop: June 24-25, 2014
Goals
The goal of this workshop is to identify ways to advance interoperability of biomedical imaging data across the CTSA Consortium and beyond.
- The workshop will be preceded by a tutorial (Day 0) 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 allow 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 coordination of research in digital imaging 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:
- 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)
- 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 (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 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
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: Digital Pathology across the CTSA Consortium: Identifying What There Is and Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration
- Other breakout sessions will 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 (NCBO): 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)
Initial List of Participants
Ulysses J. Balis (Ann Arbor)
Carol Bean (NCBO / Stanford)
Michael Becich (Pittsburgh)
Andrew H. Beck (Harvard)
Wiam Bshara (Buffalo)
Chris Crowner (Buffalo)
Alexander Diehl (Buffalo)
Michael Dwyer (Buffalo)
Peter Elkin (Buffalo)
Carmelo Gaudioso (Buffalo)
Metin Gurcan (Ohio)
William Hogan (Arkansas)
Charles E. Kahn (Milwaukee)
Anant Madabhushi (Case)
Anna Maria Masci (Duke)
Daniel Rubin (Stanford)
Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo)
Barry Smith (Buffalo)
Jose Luis Tapia (Buffalo)
John Tomaszewski (Buffalo)
Amber Worral (Buffalo)
