Venue: Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real Dpto. Anatomía Patológica.
Calle Obispo Rafael Torija, s/n
13005 Ciudad Real
http://visilab.etsii.uclm.es/aidpath/wksp1/

Monday 28th

Histological Tissue Preparation from Gross Sample to Image Digitization.
9:30-11:00
  • Histopathological processing in HGUCR Pathology Laboratory.
  • Tissue types: Frozen Section, Formalin embedded tissue.
  • Preparation stages: fixation, embedding, sectioning, staining, cover slipping.
  • Claudia Ramos Rodríguez, Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Spain.
11:00-11:15
  • Pause
11:15-12:30 Diagnostic stainings.
  • Stains in non-tumoral renal pathology and breast cáncer: Masson, PAS.
  • Membrane stains.
  • José M. Pérez, Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Spain.
12:30-13:30 Case Study Preparation.
  • Renal Biopsy: Tracking down and staining.
  • Breast Biopsy: Tracking down and staining.
  • Natalia Villasanti Rivas, Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Spain.
13:30-15:00
  • Lunch
15:30-18:00
    New Trends in Digital Pathology.
  • Digitization and Visualization of digital slides.
  • Nanotechnology. Case application: breast cancer.
  • Marcial García Rojo, Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain.

Tuesday 29th

In situ visit and digitization. Case Discussion: Kidney and Breast Biopsy.
9:30-10:15 Visit to the HGUCR Pathology Laboratory.
  • Tour into the sample tissue preparation.
  • Lucía González López, Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Spain.
10:15-11:15 I Case Study Discussion: Kidney biopsy
  • Description of the problem.
  • Automatic Visual inspection: Diagnosis.
  • Francisco Javier Díaz Crespo, Hospital Virgen de la Salud, Toledo, Spain.
11:15-11:30
  • Pause
11:30-13:30 I Case Study Discussion: Kidney biopsy.
  • What information can/should be retrieved?
  • Arvydas Laurinavicius, National Center of Pathology, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
13:30-15:00
  • Lunch
15:00-16:15 II Case Study Discussion: Breast biopsy
  • Description of the problem.
  • Automatic Visual inspection: Diagnosis.
  • Juan Ruiz, Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo, Spain.
16:15-16:30
  • Pause
16:30-17:30 II Case Study Discussion: Breast biopsy.
  • Comprehensive Immunohistochemistry?
  • Arvydas Laurinavicius, National Center of Pathology, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
17:30-18:00
  • Case Study Conclusions.
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Wednesday 30th

Solving Practical Problems
9:30-10:15 Digital Microscopy Assessment of Angiogenesis in Different Breast Cancer Compartments.
  • Eugen Carasevici, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania.
10:15-11:00 Automated quantification methodologies of IHC markers to determine patterns of immune response in breast cancer.
  • Carlos López Pablo, Hospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta & Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Tortosa, Spain.
11:00-11:15 Pause
11:15-12:00 Automatic Handling of Tissue Microarray Cores.
  • Gloria Bueno, VISILAB, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
12:00-12:45 Next Generation Digital Pathology by TissueFAXS™ Cytometry.
  • Rupert C. Ecker, TissueGnostics GmbH, Vienna, Austria.