This MIKAIA® App Note shows how to quantify tumor in proximity to nerve fibers (perineural invasion) in a IHC duplex-stained tissue section, where nerves appear red (antigen: S100) and tumor brown (antigen:...
Author - Volker Bruns
Volker Bruns
Digital Pathology AI Companies — List of Commercial AIs (CE-IVDR, FDA, RUO)
2022 and 2023 have been breakthrough years for AI in digital pathology. Many new startups, backed by lots of venture capital, as well as established vendors have released AIs cleared for clinical routine. As of today...
Annotation Concepts in MIKAIA for Whole-Slide-Images
The first step to creating a supervised Digital Pathology AI is to annotate whole-slide-images. MIKAIA® uses various annotation concepts. Working with MIKAIA® is easier when these annotation concepts are known and...
AI Will Survive: Integrating Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences
AI is on the rise in pretty much every scientific field (at least it feels that way). We talked to Nathalie Falk, one of the voices behind the MIKAIA University application notes, molecular biologist with a PhD in...
Grit Nickel
TherVacB Vaccine: MIKAIA Used in Preclinical Immunotoxicity Study
The TherVacB project, led by Helmholtz Zentrum München, received a five-year funding within the Horizon 2020 program. With TherVacB, a therapeutic vaccine to cure Hepatitis B, the project’s aim is to provide a...
IHC Profiler in MIKAIA – Assessing New IHC Assay Using Multi-organ TMA
When designing a new immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay, a quantitative assessment of how it “responds” in different tissues of various organs is insightful and helps optimizing the assay in an objective way...
ECDP23 @ Budapest
Dear Travel Diary…. The European Congress on Digital Pathology 2023 (ECDP23) took place in Budapest, Hungary, from June 14th-17th in the beautiful Corinthian Hotel. ~600 delegates shared their latest experiences...
MIKAIA FL Cell Analysis App
MIKAIA® University Application Note: Analyzing multiplexed immuno fluorescent (mIF) slides MIKAIA® has good support for viewing, annotating and analyzing multi-plexed (aka high-plex, aka hyper-plex) whole-slide images...
Annual Congress of the German Society of Pathology (DGP Jahrestagung) 2023 @ Leipzig
The 2023 congress of the German Society of Pathology (DGP) was hosted by Tübingen’s Pathology Director Prof. Dr. Falko Fend. It took place June 1st-3rd in the congress center in sunny Leipzig. Last I’ve...
Our Partners: Institute of Pathology ‒ University Hospital Erlangen-Nuremberg
Two of our closest clinical partners, Prof. Dr. Arndt Hartmann, head of the Institute of Phathology, and Adjunct Professor Dr. Carol Geppert, head of cytology and digital pathology at the University Hospital Erlangen...
