Seminar by Prof Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, ALOVAS: Digital Pathology Image Analyzer (20 Sep 2022)

School of EEE, Centre for Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
NTU & IEEE Circuits and Systems Singapore ChapterIEEE Signal Processing Singapore Chapter

Date and Time:
20 Sep 2022 | 10:30 - 11:30am, Tuesday

Speaker:
Prof Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung Miin Wu
School of Computing, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

 

Pathology image analysis requires intensive loading in the examination of the large size of the pathology images. The advance of AI on image analysis capability has triggers the installation of digital pathology to adopt AI as assistant on the pathology images analysis. 

 

Alovas provides a unique solution for the analysis of whole slide liver pathology images. It adopts the deep learning models combined with image analysis techniques for the detection of liver tumor areas, Nucleus quantitative measurements, the detection of lymphocytes and its aggregation analysis, the fibrosis dispersion analysis, Hepatitis analysis, and etc. 

 

While training pathology images requires intensive computing power and loads on labeling, in this presentation we would not only present the ALOVAS, but would also share experiences on selecting critical images for training. Some issues due to the cross hospitals and cross scanners differences causing the performance degradation will also be addressed in the talk.

 

 

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung (S’89-M’91-SM’02-F’08) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University, USA, in 1991. She then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, in 1991 and has become a full professor in 1996. She served as the Head of Department of Electrical Engineering(2011-2014), the Director of Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering (2008-2011), NCKU. She was elected Distinguished Professor of NCKU in 2005 and received the Distinguished Professor Award of Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2012. She also served as Program Director of Intelligent Computing Division, Ministry of Science and Technology (2012-2014), Taiwan, the Director General of the Department of Information and Technology Education at Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Currently, she is the Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Dean of Miin Wu School of Computing, at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

 

Dr. Chung’s research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, medical image analysis, pattern recognition and pathology image analysis. She currently is focusing on Whole Slide Image (WSI) pathology image analysis and has built ALOVAS platform. She served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Currently she is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 

 

Dr. Chung served on two terms of ADCOM member (2009-2011, 2012-2014), the Chair of CIS Distinguished Lecturer Program (2012-2013), the Chair of Women in Computational Intelligence (2014), and the Vice President for Members Activities of IEEE CIS Society. She also served on two terms of BoG member in IEEE Circuit and Systems Society. She is a Member of Phi Tau Phi honor society and is an IEEE Fellow since 2008. Currently she serves as the Vice President for Education of IEEE CIS.