Digital Pathology Today: Season 2, Episode 16 - The World’s First Fully Automated, Quantitative, Stain-Free Imaging System
Date: 27 Jan 2022
Imagine a world without staining… In the excitement of digital pathology we often forget that we’re using with a legacy system of staining tissue pink and purple, which is time-consuming and tissue-destructive. There’s got to be a better way.
Under Dr. Ho’s direction as the CEO, the laser-based stain-free imaging system has been successfully implemented in academic, clinical and commercial research centers in major universities, hospitals and research facilities around the world. Dr. Ho has multiple patents and journal publications in medical imaging, lasers and optics to his credit.
This episode discusses the AI-based digital pathology developed at HistoIndex. What is multiphoton technology? What is second harmonic generation (SHG)? The clinical applications HistoIndex is focusing on first is NASH – nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. What is NASH? What is the unmet need? How does it affect society? What are the diagnostic challenges?