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For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Kesi Xu, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on cell classification for histopathology. Read more.

30th UK Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, Dublin (20th – 22nd July 2026)

I was lucky enough to get accepted for an oral presentation at this year鈥檚 Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis which was the 30th Anniversary Conference and the first time it was held outside of the UK. The only problem being for a die-hard football fan that the day of travel was the world cup final, and we had to gamble on whether England would be there. Read more.

We are pleased to share that TIA Centre researchers Adam Shephard and Shan E Ahmed Raza, together with Rose Wang (University of Missouri-Kansas City), are serving as Guest Editors for a new Cancers Special Issue,"Artificial Intelligence in Cancers: Enhancing Diagnosis and Treatment".

The Special Issue invites submissions on topics including computational pathology, medical imaging, radiology, genomics, multiomics, cancer detection, prognostic prediction, treatment planning, and clinical decision support, highlighting the growing role of AI in advancing cancer research and care.

Find out more and submit your work .

1st ESDIP-MICCAI-ASDP Summer School, Graz, Austria (15-16th June 2026)

It was a real pleasure to co-lead the 1^st , held this year in Graz, Austria, delivered ahead of the conference. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Ethar Alzaid, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on survival risk prediction and stratification. Read more.

We are delighted to announce that TIA Centre PhD student, George Wright, successfully defended their PhD Viva earlier in the week - well done George! Read more.

As a professional services colleague in the Department of Computer Science at the University of 海角社区 and Centre Manager for the TIA I 诲辞苍鈥檛 usually attend scientific conferences. This was my first attendance at a conference focussed on medical imaging and analysis. In the past I have attended scientific conferences focussed on renal disease and health improvement, so I was familiar with the format of scientific conferences and have even presented a poster on behalf of a team in Sweden, at a health improvement conference, on the team鈥檚 work around renal disease. Read more.

By Karen Thomas

We are delighted to share that Adam Shephard was featured in article, The Hidden Signals of Oral Cancer Risk鈥�, discussing how AI could help improve risk assessment and outcomes for patients with oral epithelial dysplasia. Read the article .

European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP), Graz, Austria

The TIA Centre was out in full force again at the 22^nd European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP) 2026, this year held in Graz, just a few kilometres from Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthplace. With temperatures regularly exceeding 30掳C, attendees enjoyed not only a packed scientific programme but also the opportunity to experience one of Austria's most picturesque cities, famous for its historic Old Town and the iconic Schlossberg clock tower overlooking the city. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

The Tissue Image Analytics Centre, based in the Department of Computer Science at 海角社区 University, is delighted to announce that the University of 海角社区 have been awarded the honour of hosting the 2027 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference. Read more.

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Adam Shephard, an Assistant Professor in the centre whose research focuses on developing methods that combine different data modalities, such as histopathology, clinical records, and increasingly radiology, to improve prediction of disease progression and patient outcomes. Read more.

We are delighted to showcase a Pathology News Thought Leadership podcast featuring Adam Shephard, Assistant Professor from the TIA Centre in collaboration with Dr Hanya Mahmood from The University of Sheffield to explore how OYDN, an AI-powered computational pathology model, is improving risk stratification for oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) and uncovering novel digital biomarkers that could support earlier cancer detection. Read more.

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Bashayer Abdallah, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on monocular depth estimation for both medical and real-world imaging environments. Read more.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held in Chicago from 29 May to 2 June 2026, hosted an estimated 40,000 oncology professionals, making it the largest international conference dedicated to oncology research in the world. This provided us with a unique opportunity to interact with industry experts and clinicians as well as learn about cutting-edge research in the field. Read more.

The TIA Centre researchers were out in force last week and participated in a University of 海角社区 Student Union charity symposium held on Campus.

The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS) event is 海角社区 Student Union鈥檚 NEW flagship charity event where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers come together to give talks on computational cancer research. The symposium was sponsored by Histofy, a spinout from the TIA Centre aimed at accelerated precision diagnostics in both clinical and pharmaceutical workflows and raised funds for Cancer Research UK. Read more.

It was a pleasure (and a privilege) to be invited to speak at the 鈥淭ransforming Digital Pathology & AI: The Path Forward鈥� conference in Edinburgh this year, particularly given the calibre of speakers. Sharing the stage with leaders in computational pathology such as Prof. Jeroen van der Laak, Dr Rapha毛lle Luisier (University of Bern), and the TIA Centre鈥檚 very own Dr Fayyaz Minhas made it clear from the outset that this would be a meeting worth attending. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

The month of April saw the annual IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 held in London. This year, researchers and students had eight papers accepted at the conference. Read more.

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of George Wright, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on endometrial tissue and examining the causes of recurrent pregnancy loss. Read more.

This April, we had the incredible opportunity to travel to London to attend IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026, a leading international conference in biomedical imaging research. Although an unfamiliar experience for both of us, it was an incredibly valuable insight into the field of computational pathology and academia as a whole. Read more.

By Seth Chang and Muhammad Amjad

I am Hafsa Akebli, a PhD student at the University of Udine, Italy, and I carried out a two-month research internship between September and November 2025 at the Tissue Image Analytics Centre, University of 海角社区, under the co-supervision of Professor Nasir Rajpoot and Dr Adam Shephard. During this visit, I worked on a multimodal oncology agent for IDH1 mutation prediction in low-grade glioma, in collaboration with my PhD supervisor Professor Vincenzo Della Mea. This work led to our paper 鈥淢ultimodal Oncology Agent for IDH1 Mutation Prediction in Low-Grade Glioma,鈥� which was presented orally at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 by Dr Adam Shephard. Read more.