Optimizing workflows, exchanging tips and trends, learning from the best: that’s what the Smart In Media events are all about. Join us! Get to know experts and digitization trends, look through the digital microscope with colleagues, and experience innovations online and offline:
Meet the Smart In Media team at the 2nd Innsbruck Pathology Symposium of Innsbruck, held at the Medical University of Innsbruck under the banner of ‘Functional Insights’. Fittingly, our team offers the opportunity to experience smart solutions for Digital Pathology first-hand and see, how a modern, productive pathology lab works.
The Symposium on January 21st is held under the patronage of the Medical University of Innsbruck, the Tirol Kliniken, the Austrian Society of Pathology and DONKO.
Anyone who wants to know what’s new in pathology, traditionally attends the “Bamberger Morphologietage” – ‘the Morphology Days’ in Bamberg. This year, for the first time, we will show you live how to work effectively in a modern laboratory. At our booth K04/K05, we will present the smartest solutions for Digital Pathology on four workstations, from manual entry-level solutions to the diagnostic platform Digital Lab. Everything can be tried out live, including accessories such as the SpaceMouse, LabelPrinter-Software, Streamdeck, Slidedriver and many other practical gadgets that make routine diagnostics easier.
In Digital Pathology, scanners are a central element in the workflow – that’s why we also offer you to try out the new Hamamatsu scanner S20, unveiled in London in December 2022. And for research pathologists, we have the AI-based image analysis software MICAIA from Frauenhofer IIS live in action.
If you want to know more about AI for pathology, and maybe even want to train some yourself, be sure to join us on Saturday for our compact course ‘AI for Pathologists with no Prior Knowledge’. Smart In Media’s Chief Medical Officer Martin Weihrauch M. D. will give insights into how AI for pathology is being developed and used profitably. Workshop guests are Dr Andreas Turzynski from Lübeck, who is already training his first own AI, Dr Erk Klopp as Group Leader Medical Systems at Hamamatsu, and Dr Volker Bruns, Group Leader Medical Image Processing at Fraunhofer IIS, as the absolute specialist in AI-based image analysis software for research.
‘Unleashing the edge power of pathology’ is the motto of the Winter-School of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a special honour for us to be there: Our CEO, Dr Detlef K.-H. Finkler, will be officially inducted as the society’s industry representative.
The participants – pathologists, scientists and students – will learn about the latest advances in pathology during the three days: usage of state-of-the-art microscopy and sequencing technologies, maximizing tissue examination through computational pathology and Artificial Intelligence.
Sharing knowledge is always a pleasure. And so we are happy to be guests of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic at the University in Bratislava. In the Science Park of the Comenius University, numerous pathologists of the country will meet for the “Presentation Day: Digitization of Pathological Anatomy in the Slovak Republic.”
In addition to the presentations, the pathologists’ open Q&A session is going to be exciting. The aim is to provide concrete guidance for digitization in practices. Corina Turner, our Head of Marketing & Communication, is looking forward to share our experiences.
Which new features are there in the SmartZoom® ClassRoom eLearning platform? How can users use the software for medical education and training even more efficiently, and which new tools are most helpful? Answers will be provided at the SmartZoom® ClassRoom user meeting on Thursday, November 8, at 4 pm (CEST) online via Zoom. Product manager Julian Seibert will give insights into newly developed tools and in the second part, SmartZoom users can exchange ideas with each other and with the development team. We look forward to your questions and suggestions for new functions.
The working language will be German.
To participate, please register via mail to Corina Turner, c.turner@smartinmedia.com
We will be part of the “IX Curso de Patología Digital” from 26 to 28 October 2022 in Jerez de la Frontera/Spain. The event is under the scientific patronage of the “Club de Patología Digital de la Sociedad Española de Anatomía Patológica” (SEAP), the Digital Pathology Club of the Spanish Society of Anatomical Pathology.
We look forward to welcoming pathologists, technical specialists, biologists, bioinformaticians, engineers, and other biomedical researchers. They have all learned, not least from the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of telemedicine and telework. Moreover, it is now clear that computational pathology, with microscopic imaging next to molecular and genetic data, has become an indispensable tool in precision medicine.
With our state-of-the-art medical software solutions for digital diagnostics and teaching, we are a valuable part of this advancement. Therefore, we will present our diagnostic and AI platforms PathoZoom® Digital Lab as well as our eLearning platform SmartZoom® ClassRoom on-site. If you are interested, book your personal demo appointment in Jerez in advance by contacting Jens Martin Mallow, Smart In Media’s General Manager Spain: j.mallow@smartinmedia.com.
In addition to the above topics, the Jerez meeting will address essential issues such as image management, quality management, teaching and training, and efficient data management. Short practical workshops will also be organized in collaboration with the leading companies in the sector.
We are proud to welcome Dr. Michaela Benz as the speaker for the expert meeting “AI for Pathology – Applications and Challenges.” She is Chief Scientist at Fraunhofer IIS, Co-developer of the AI-based MICAIA® software for research and expert in image analysis software for Digital Pathology.
In this field, AI-based software is becoming increasingly important. As digitization in pathology advances, AI-based methods to support the analysis of tissue sections are also increasingly being investigated and developed. Applications include automated detection of tissue types, microenvironment analysis for tumors, detection of metastases in lymph nodes or detection of different cell types. At our expert meeting on Thursday, November 3, at 5 pm CET, Dr. Benz will present selected applications’ underlying technical principles and highlight their development challenges.
This expert meeting will be held in English.
If you would like to participate, register by emailing Corina Turner: c.turner@smartinmedia.com
Our next interactive PathoZoom® Digital Lab user meeting on November 15 at 5pm CET we will address many questions:
What’s new in the PathoZoom® Digital Lab diagnostic platform? What new tools make diagnostics even more effortless now? What are the developers currently working on? And how can existing users integrate the new archiving tool, for example?
This user meeting will be held in English.
Customers and everyone interested who would like to attend can register by emailing Corina Turner: c.turner@smartinmedia.com
At the 29th Annual Meeting of the Working Group of Dermatological Histology, we will present the modern, digital workflow from scanning to reporting on the cutting-edge diagnostic platform PathoZoom® Digital Lab. The lecture by Martin Weihrauch, M. D., CEO and Head of Product Development at Smart In Media, is part of the program on Saturday.
In the venerable Leopoldina in the heart of the city of Halle/Germany, the participants can expect presentations and workshops on the various fields of dermatopathology and their current development.
The 39th National Congress of the Seminar of Hospital Engineering in Spain was an excellent opportunity for us to inspire new prospective customers for Smart in Media’s Digital Pathology. The focus was on the latest ideas in development, technological innovations, and improvement opportunities in the field of technology for healthcare. Our General Manager Spain, Jens Martin Mallow, met many participants from Spain and abroad. In addition to the industrial exhibition, the scientific-technical program met high standards.
Evaluating histological sections in research takes a lot of time, is often tedious and error-prone due to the manual activities involved. This is where the strengths of artificial intelligence come into action: without loss of concentration, it can process simple tasks within seconds and establish correlations. At our online expert meeting, “AI-based Image Analysis,” Dr. Volker Bruns, Group Manager of Medical Image Processing, showed Fraunhofer IIS’s new possibilities for intelligent image analysis.
Digital Pathology Associations’ “Pathology Visions” was back in Las Vegas this year. It was a pleasure for our General Manager USA, Don van Dyke, to meet with many visitors there. During numerous demos, he presented our powerful systems for digital pathology – from entry-level solutions such as the PathoZoom Scan & LiveView Suite to the diagnostic platform PathoZoom® Digital Lab including AI as an assistant for routine tasks.
“Defining Standards – Paths to Digitization” was the topic of the Federal Pathology Congress. Dr. Detlef K.-H. Finkler, CEO of Smart In Media, gave a presentation on how digitization can be used to accelerate routine diagnostics. In addition, Dr. Alberto Pérez Bouza, Head of the Institute for Pathology and Cytology Troisdorf, presented how digital pathology can be successfully implemented in an institute using the various solutions of our PathoZoom® product family along the entire workflow.
The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland’s Away Day is special for all members. It combines socializing with the mandatory meetings of the Society. This year, we had the pleasure of presenting the industry’s view of the trends in Digital Pathology.
Integration of a new archiving tool, viewing of radiological images directly next to histology views: There was a lot that was new at the PathoZoom® Digital Lab user meeting. Philipp Henke, IT project manager, presented the developments of the past weeks and answered user questions about the diagnostics platform.
At the “Morphology 2022” congress in Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic, we showed the participants how digitalization in pathology could enormously improve the quality of diagnostics. It was a great pleasure to be a guest at the invitation of the Czech Anatomical Society and the Czech Society for Histo- and Cytochemistry.
In his lecture and many discussions, CEO Dr.Detlef K.-H. Finkler demonstrated how our open diagnostics platform PathoZoom® Digital Lab helps: 1. to work more effectively and independently of the laboratory location and to coordinate with colleagues at any time and from anywhere, 2. to attract young physicians with new and flexible work (time) models, and 3. to diagnose more efficiently with the support of artificial intelligence and thus to help patients faster and more accurately.
The central part of the event and workshops was performed with the help of our digital teaching platform SmartZoom® ClassRoom.
A big thank you goes to the organizing committee, especially to MUDr. Tomáš Soukup, Ph.D., from Charles University for his excellent support and to our partners from bamed s.r.o.e.
At the Diamond Jubilee of the Royal College of Pathologists in London, we had the honor to be part of an unforgettable festive day, where we also had the opportunity to present our solutions for digital pathology.
Our CEO Dr. Detlef K.-H. Finkler was pleased to welcome the President of the Royal College, Dr. Michael Osborn, and the Vice President, Prof. Sarah Coupland. Dr. Suzy Lishman gave a fascinating lecture on living autopsy, looking for the effects of our lifestyle on our health. To that end, many students took advantage of the interactive opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
In the evening, things became very emotional when news of the Queen’s death reached the College, of which she was a patron. Michael Osborn paid tribute to her in his speech, as did keynote speaker Shaun Lintern, medical editor of The Sunday Times. A few hours later, we could toast the new King Charles with everyone.
Digital diagnostics brings many benefits to pathologists and patients. The most important thing is to take the leap and get started! Elizabeth Plocharczyk, MD, MPH, FCAP, FASDP, made it easy a few months ago. So, the senior pathologist and CEO of Excelsior Pathologies in New York is currently in the process of making a gradual entry. At our expert meeting, she shared insights into her entry into digital pathology.
Sharing expertise quickly, diagnosing more efficiently, or offering new work (time) models: At the European Congress of Pathology of the European Society of Pathology (ESP) in Basel, the requirements of pathologists, professional associations and pharmaceutical companies for digital pathology were discussed in many talks. Our solutions for diagnostics, teaching, and the pharmaceutical industry met with great interest.
Brand new in our portfolio, we presented the MICAIA® Studio software for high-speed quantitative research results. This solution, developed by Fraunhofer IIS, makes your image-based analysis significantly faster, more precise, and more reproducible!
We exchanged new use cases and features at this user meeting for our SmartZoom® ClassRoom eLearning platform. We were pleased to see how multifaceted the application areas have become since users can also upload radiological images in the DICOM format.
At the pathologists’ workshop of the “Sachsen-Anhaltischen Krebsgesellschaft e.V.” in Halle/Saale, the participants were able to experience our solutions for digital pathology live. We demonstrated manual scanning at the microscope as well as our PathoZoom® Digital Lab. This diagnostic platform allows pathologists to diagnose flexibly with any PC, tablet, or smartphone, regardless of time and place – for example, from the home office or on the road.
New contacts, inspiration, and insights: It was a great pleasure to be part of the 18th European Congress of Digital Pathology (ECDP) in Berlin. In the exciting environment of pathologists, computer scientists, biologists, technicians, students, clinicians, and industry partners, we participated in the discussions on the latest digital and computational pathology topics. Once again, we listened closely to what moves our customers and keeps the industry busy. We went into depth again at our workshop with Hamamatsu “Experiences from the Scanner to the Diagnostics Platform.”
At the annual conference of the German Society of Pathology, we presented innovative digital solutions for routine diagnostics at our booth. How these fit into the laboratory workflow excited the participants at our “Deep Dive Digital Pathology” workshop. With our scanner partner Hamamatsu, we showed what is crucial in the process, from scanning to selecting the image management system to using an open diagnostics platform such as the PathoZoom® Digital Lab.
It was great to be part of the HOSPEA family in Valencia this year. During the two days, our CEO, Dr. Detlef K.-H. Finkler, and General Manager Spain, Jens Martin Mallow, presented our cutting-edge digital pathology solutions for diagnostics and education to professionals from universities and hospitals. In a country like Spain, with sometimes long distances between medical sites, Digital Pathology can help to speed up diagnoses for patients. Because our Pathology solutions digitally connect physicians in different locations in seconds.
Two days of great speakers, varied presentations, interesting industry booths, and professional exchange at the HISTOLOGICA Congress in Oberhausen were a great pleasure for us. Finally, after such a long time, we were able to meet customers and partners again. It was marvelous to see how Digitization is lived and implemented by so many different people and labs: from renowned institutes, young pathologies, many dermatologies … It is precious for us to hear and understand their diverse perspectives and requirements.
Sample receipt, preparation, labeling of the slides with barcodes, scanning, and finally diagnosing on the screen: This is the workflow when working digitally in pathology. The participants of our online workshop “Digital Pathology” saw what this looks like in practice in the digitized laboratory for pathology and cytology Troisdorf/Germany. PD Dr. Alberto Pérez Bouza showed how pathologists could work from home and on the road through digitization. He also gave an insight into his routine diagnostics including reducing the error rate, accelerating processes, and making diagnoses and organization within the institute more efficient.
Archiving specimens and preparations is a challenge. At the expert meeting, we presented our solution, implemented by our cooperation partner Z.A.S. Zentral Archive Service. The managing directors, Dr. Benjamin Bader and Norman Braun, gave an insight into their unique archive for the pharmaceutical sector and thus also for pathologies. There, pathologies can not only archive their preparations but also have them digitized – and then, if necessary, request them again at the click of a mouse.
Immediate exchange of specimens with the click of a mouse, second opinions via a live stream of the microscope view, and digital diagnostics from any location at any time. Thanks to Digital Pathology, it’s the everyday life at the Institute of Hematopathology Hamburg/Germany. At the “Virtual Forum Digital Pathology,” Lukas Heukamp, M. D., gave participants an insight into the largest laboratory in northern Germany and the digital workflows, which extend to the use of AI-supported diagnoses.
Improved workflows, more efficient communication with colleagues, and innovative technologies for faster diagnoses: Digital Pathology optimizes the entire laboratory workflow. Alberto Peréz Bouza, M. D., showed what this looks like at the Institute of Pathology and Cytology in Troisdorf at the interactive expert meeting at the end of March.
What is the advantage of digital microscopy platforms – even after Corona? How can lecturers and students use virtual microscopy for modern e-learning at universities? Answers from daily practice provided Dr. Phil Langton, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Lanc.), University of Bristol, at our expert meeting in March.
Artificial intelligence has long since matured as support in routine diagnostics. The participants of our symposium “Digital Pathology: No Fear of AI” were able to experience this first-hand. Felix Faber provided insights; he is the founder & CEO of Mindpeak, one of the leading artificial intelligence developers for Digital Pathology.
We were pleased to be part of the international “Digital Pathology & Image Analysis Training School” in Vienna. Martin Weihrauch, M. D., CEO of Smart In Media, shared his tips & experiences under the topic “The road to digitization and the use of AI in pathology.”
Further your education in the field of “Bone Marrow Diagnostics for Hematologists” & learn from the top experts in our online microscopy course “From cytomorphological findings to conclusive diagnosis”. The focus is on typical, complex, and rare microscopic slides and constellations of findings. The course is held in German.
There was a lot of activity in our virtual lounge at the “Bamberger Morphologietage”: We met customers and interested physicians, gave virtual insights into our PathoZoom® Digital Lab, and encountered well over 100 participants and huge interest in working in our Digital Lab at the lunch symposium.
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