PathLAKE Centre of Excellence

What is PathLAKE?

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• £15 million has been awarded to create a unique data resource of pathology images and techniques, and help develop AI technologies for cancer diagnosis and personalised treatment.
• The Consortium will bring together researchers from universities, several university hospital trusts and leading AI/software business developers in the field to create a national Centre of ExcellenceLink opens in a new window in AI in pathology, that will be linked to five digitised NHS pathology labs.
• The technology will assist pathologists in diagnosing cancer more efficiently and selecting the optimal treatment for cancer patients in a much quicker timescale.

Focus at Warwick

Here at Warwick, our aim is to focus on the:

• Construction of a world-class pathology image data lake with annotated pathology images and linked clinical outcome data
• Integration of the PathLAKE data lake with data ponds at partner hospital sites
• Building of PathLAKE Analytics Engine linked with the data lake, bringing the 'compute to the data'
• Research and Development (R&D) of cutting-edge AI algorithms for early diagnosis and personalised treatment of cancer
• Testing and validation of the AI algorithms

Partner organisations

We are indebted to many organisations for funding, resources, expertise and knowledge:

• Universities of Warwick, Nottingham, Oxford, and Queen's Belfast
• University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and UK Research & Innovation
• Philips Digital & Computational Pathology
• NVIDIA
• Glencoe Software
• Perspectum Diagnostics
• Oxford Cancer Biomarkers
• Sonrai Analytics

Events

PathLAKE Spring 2023 NewsletterLink opens in a new window