Scientific Program


INVITED SPEAKERS
9:00 Markus Plass Austria
Welcome words from the Congress President
9:05 Peter Regitnig Austria
Welcome words from the Congress President
9:10 Norman Zerbe Germany
Welcome words from ESDIP President

CHAIR
Norman Zerbe Germany
INVITED SPEAKER
9:15 Laura Rubbia-Brandit Switzerland
"Digital Pathology: New Technologies Giving New Eyes to Pathologist"

CHAIR
Vincenzo L'Imperio Italy

INVITED SPEAKERS
09:45 Inti Zlobec Switzerland
"Medical AI is here...but where?"
10:00 Heather Dawson Switzerland
"Beyond the Blood Test: Integrating Liquid Biopsy and Digital Pathology for Precision Oncology in Colon Cancer"
10:20 Panel Discussion

CHAIR
Peter Regitnig Austria Nadieh KhaliliThe Netherlands
INVITED SPEAKER
11:15 Balázs Ács Hungary
"Computational Breast Pathology: Ready for Prime Time?"
ABSTRACTS
11:35 Mateusz Maniewski Poland
AI-assisted algorithm for reflex testing in equivocal HER2 immunohistochemistry
11:45 Afzan Adam Malaysia
Spatial Integration of Atypical Mitotic Hotspots and Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes for Survival Stratification in Breast Cancer.

CHAIR
Diana Montezuma Portugal Jordi Temprana Spain

INVITED SPEAKERS
13:30 Frederik Deman Belgium
"Making AI Work - Not in Theory, but in Your Lab: lessons learned after 3y of experience"
13:50 Paul van Diest The Netherlands
"AI in routine diagnostics: better, stronger, faster?"
ABSTRACTS
14:10 Ingrid Garberis France
Building PortrAIt: A Multidisciplinary Framework to Accelerate AI Development and Routine Implementation in Digital Pathology
14:20 Hannah Markham United Kingdom
A multi-centre validation of the Ibex Prostate AI Pathology system compared to expert uropathologist reporting: Cancer Histology Artificial Intelligence Reliability Study (IP6-CHAIROS)

CHAIR
İlknur Turkmen Turkey Paul van Diest The Netherlands
INVITED SPEAKERS
16:15 Vincenzo L'Imperio Italy
"The Italian job: 2 months to go digital"
16:35 Markus Plass Austria, Peter Regitnig Austria
"533 days digital – An experience report"
16:55 Diana Montezuma Portugal
"A pratical approach for Digital Pathology adoption"
17:15 Thomas Mairinger Germany
“From Vision to Everydays Routine: A 6 Years of Digital Pathology in Practice Retrospective”
17:35 Panel Discussion

CHAIR
Sabine Leh Norway Salma Dammak The Netherlands
INVITED SPEAKER
11:15 Peter Boor Germany
"AI 4 Nephropathology - a roadmap"
ABSTRACTS
11:35 Hrafn Weishaupt Norway
An unsupervised learning approach to resolving mislabeling of histological stains
11:45 Renaldas Augulis Lithuania
Computational Morphometrics to Predict Renal Allograft Survival from Biopsy Histology Images

CHAIR
Mircea Serbanescu Romania Rita Carvalho Portugal
ABSTRACTS
13:30 Carlijn Lems Netherlands
Pathologists versus AI copilots in digital pathology: evaluation on the DALPHIN multicentric open benchmark
13:40 Ye Wenjing Czechia
Spatial profiling and prognostic value of CD66+ neutrophils in colorectal cancer patients with synchronous and metachronous liver metastases
13:50 Mateusz Maniewski Poland
Clinical relevance of AI-based reflex testing PD-L1 in non-small cell lung cancer
14:00 Serna Garazi Spain
Multimodal computational pathology for risk stratification in colorectal cancer
14:10 Puneet Arora
Spatial Profiling of the Tumor Microenvironment to Identify Features Associated with Upgrade of Breast Ductal Carcinoma In Situ
14:20 Mónica Curado Portugal
The impact of inking colour selection on digital pathology efficiency

CHAIR
Johanna Palacios-Ball Spain Sara Oliveira The Netherlands
INVITED SPEAKER
14:30 Vincenzo Della Mea Italy
"Breast cancer relapse prediction in the MSCA Bosomshield project"
ABSTRACTS
14:50 Mario Parreno-Centeno Finland
Artefact-Aware Fine-Tuning Improves Accuracy and Robustness in Histopathology Foundation Models
15:00 Loïc Le Bescond Germany
Leveraging Multimodal Foundation Models for Scalable Tumour Subtype Classification from H&E Whole-Slide Images
15:10 Gaspar Faure Canada
PlacentaBench: 10K+ Whole-Slide Images for Evaluating Foundation Models Transferability to Placental Pathology
15:20 Nefise Uysal Netherlands
AI-Based Gleason Grading: From Section-Level Models to Patient-Level Gleason Score

CHAIR
Sara Oliveira The Netherlands Frederick Deman Belgium
INVITED SPEAKER
16:15 Alessandro Caputo Italy Salma Dammak The Netherlands
"Computational pathology as a second language: a bilingual introduction from pathology and computer science"
ABSTRACTS
16:35 Jianan Chen United Kingdom  Adrienne Flanagan United Kingdom et al.
A Multimodal Knowledge-Enhanced Clinical Decision Support Platform for Diagnosing Sarcoma and its Mimics
16:45 Maximilian Koeller  Felix Kueng Austria
Kidney Histo-Morphology Revisited: Machine Learning Based Morphological Reasoning And Its Limitations
16:55 Swapnil Bhat, Nayantrishna Nath India
Can Freely Accessible Large Language Models Interpret Histopathology Images in Resource-Limited Settings? A Multi-Model Benchmarking Study
17:05 Melis Erdal Cesur  Rolf Harkes The Netherlands
CODEX-Derived Cell Type Labels for H&E-Based Spatial Single-Cell Analysis in Breast Cancer

CHAIR
Inti Zlobec Switzerland Junya Fukuoka Japan
INVITED SPEAKER
17:15 Marc Aubreville Germany
"AI Assistance in Pathology: Biasing the Human in the Loop?"
ABSTRACTS
17:35 Carmen Tenorio Austria
Training of State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Models With and Without Ambiguous Regions for Nuclei Instance Segmentation
17:45 Antonia Syrnioti Greece
Human-AI Synergy in Computational Pathology: Trust, Bias, and Implementation Challenges

CHAIR
Markus Plass Austria Yosep Chong South Korea
INVITED SPEAKERS
11:15 Vincenzo Della Mea Italy
"Why Digitize Pathology? – Opportunities and Challenges"
11:30 Silje Elisabeth Kristiansen Norway
"Impact of Lab Processes on Digitalization and AI – Synergies and Challenges"
11:45 Paul van Diest The Netherlands
"Integrating Digital Pathology into Lab Workflows – Challenges and Best Practices"

CHAIR
Paul van Diest The Netherlands Vincenzo Della Mea Italy

INVITED SPEAKERS
12:00 Markus Plass Austria
"Infrastructure Requirements for Digitalization in Pathology"
12:15 Peter Regitnig Austria
"Going Digital, Staying Compliant: The ISO 15189 Challenge"
12:30 Yosep Chong South Korea
"From Digital-Ready to AI-Ready: The Next Layer of Lab Readiness"

CHAIR
Rasmus Kiehl Germany Sabine Leh Norway

INVITED SPEAKER
13:30 Christian Baumgartner Austria
“Innovation vs. Regulation: Software, AI, and MDR in Digital Health”
ABSTRACTS
13:50 Jennifer Antonythasan Norway
Organizational Readiness for AI in Diagnostic Pathology: A Regional Pre‑implementation Survey in Western Norway
14:00 Cora Lohse Germany
Regulatory-Compliant, Yet Flexible Digital Pathology Workflows for a Contract Research Organization
14:10 Frédérique Meeuwsen Netherlands
A roadmap to implementation of in-house developed computational pathology algorithms
14:20 Phoenix Wilkie Canada
Redefining how ethics is taught in medicine with the advent of AI

CHAIR
Andres Mosquera Spain Francesco Ciompi The Netherlands
ABSTRACTS
14:30 Navin Vicent Sweden
Validation of Diagnostic Artificial Intelligence Models for Prostate Pathology in a Middle Eastern Cohort
14:40 Flavio Di Lisio Italy
Data-efficient AI for the detection of duodenal neoplasia: a multi-centre study
14:50 Alexander Szabados Germany
A Unified Model for Pan‑Cancer H&E Tissue Segmentation Across 17 Organs
15:00 Kexin Xu United Kingdom
Predicting spatial transcriptomics from histology images of inflammatory bowel conditions
15:10 Cavit Kerem Kayhan Turkey
Automated Digital Quantification of CD3⁺ and CD8⁺ Immune Infiltrates in Colorectal Carcinoma Using a Standardized Image Analysis Algorithm
15:20 Javier Baroja Switzerland
Deep Learning-Based Morphological Profiling of Lymph Node Metastasis Improves Prognostic Stratification in Stage III Colorectal Cancer

CHAIR
Arvydas Laurinavicius Lithuania
INVITED SPEAKERS
16:15 Marius Linguraru United States of America
MICCAI
16:30 Spyridon Bakas United States of America
BraTS-Path
16:40 Nadieh Khalili The Netherlands
CHIMERA
16:50 Adam Shephard United Kingdom
The MIDOG Challenge: A Competitor’s Perspective
17:00 Sangjeong Ahn South Korea
REG
17:10 Sanket Kachole United Kingdom
HANCOTHON 2025 : A MICCAI Challenge on Predicting Recurrence and Survival Using Multimodal Head and Neck Cancer Data
17:20 Francesco Ciompi The Netherlands
UNICORN: One Benchmark To Measure Them All
17:30 Norman Zerbe Germany
How to get involved

CHAIR
Vincenzo L'Imperio Italy
INVITED SPEAKER
9:00 Julien Calderaro France
"AI as a copilot for pathologists : expectations, opportunities and obstacles"

CHAIR
Sangjeong Ahn South Korea Nadieh Khalili The Netherlands
INVITED SPEAKERS
9:30 Guillaume Jaume Switzerland
"Towards Agentic Foundational Modelling in Pathology"
09:50 Hafsa Akebli
"Multimodal Oncology Agent for IDH1 Mutation Prediction in Low-Grade Glioma"
ABSTRACTS
10:00 Nisha Chaudhary India
A calibrated and spatially aware agentic framework for head and neck cancer pathology

CHAIR
Luka Bric Croatia Luca Cima Italy

INVITED SPEAKER
11:15 Junya Fukuoka Japan
"Lung pathology and AI models"
ABSTRACTS
11:35 Lucas Farndale United Kingdom
Self-Supervised AI Reveals a Hidden Landscape of Prognostic Spatial Patterns in Multiplex Immunofluorescence Images
11:45 Farzaneh Seyedshahi United Kingdom
Cross-Domain Validation of a Resection-Trained Self-Supervised Model on Multicentre Mesothelioma Biopsies

CHAIR
Christian Baumgartner Austria

INVITED SPEAKERS
13:30 Oscar Freyer Germany
"Is EU Regulation Fit for Innovative AI Systems in Healthcare?"
13:50 Jens Habermann Germany Petr Holub Germany
“Synergies between biobanking, biomolecular resources, and AI-driven digital pathology for improved personalized medicine”
14:10 Panel Discussion

CHAIR
Norman Zerbe Germany Vincenzo L'Imperio Italy

INVITED SPEAKERS
14:30 Chan Kwon Jung South Korea
"National Ecosystem for Digital Pathology and AI: The Korean Experience"
14:40 Bassma El Sabaa Egypt
"Turning Barriers into Breakthroughs: Expanding Access Where It Matters Most"
14:50 Gonzalo de Toro Chile
" Digital Pathology in Latin America: From Workforce Scarcity to AI-Enabled Networks"
15:00 Panel Discussion

CHAIR
Alessandro Caputo Italy Johanna Palacios-Ball Spain
INVITED SPEAKER
11:15 Yosep Chong South Korea
"Beyond Morphology: AI-Driven Mutation Prediction in Cytology and Precision Oncology"
ABSTRACTS
11:35 Wei-Lei Yang
Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Urine Cytology Reduces Review Time in High-Complexity Cases Without Diagnostic Compromise
11:45 Gennaro Acanfora Italy
Deep Learning-Based Classification in Lymph Node Fine Needle Cytology

CHAIR
Paul Seegers The Netherlands Sabine Leh Norway
INVITED SPEAKER
13:30 Markus Plass Austria
"From Documentation to Discovery: Making Structured Reports Searchable"
ABSTRACTS
13:50 Devansh Lalwani
Bridging the Gap: Pathologist and Clinician Perspectives on Synoptic Reporting in Histopathology
14:00 Devansh Lalwani
TuroAssist: An Agentic Framework for Accelerating Synoptic Report Generation in Digital Pathology
14:10 Serdar Balci Turkey
A Skill for Large Language Models to Evaluate Pathology Report Quality
14:20 Martina Haberecker Switzerland
User Adoption of Structured Pathology Reporting and Impact on Report Accuracy in Routine Lung Cancer Diagnostics

CHAIR
Adam Shephard United Kingdom Bethany Williams United Kingdom
ABSTRACTS
14:30 Debora Cafaro Italy
Mapping Hidden Resistance: An Explainable AI Model for Spatial Prediction of Immunotherapy Response in MSI Colorectal Cancer
14:40 Robert Spaans Netherlands
CHIMERA: A Multimodal Benchmark for Prognostic Modeling Using mpMRI, Histopathology, and Clinical Data in Prostate Cancer
14:50 Kristijan Skok Austria
A Novel Prediction tool (AIFORIA) for Classifying Spindle Cell Lesion subtypes using Deep Learning on H&E Sections
15:00 Pierre Allaume France
High Performance Deep-Learning Model for the diagnosis of Auto-Immune Hepatitis based on histological Whole Slide Images
15:10 Farzaneh Seyedshahi United Kingdom
mIF-CellFormer: Transformer Learning of Cell-Level Marker Tokens from Multiplex Immunofluorescence Images
15:20 Marek Oerlemans
Multimodal Deep Learning for DCIS Risk Prediction: Integrating Histopathology and RNAseq

CHAIR
Chan Kwon Jung South Korea Mircea Serbanescu Romania
ABSTRACTS
16:15 Chukwunwendu Adina
Integrating Digital Pathology and Infectious Disease Care to Improve Diagnosis of HIV-Associated Malignancies in Resource Limited Settings
16:25 Sara Bristow
A large-scale, multi-target deep learning model for virtual genomic and molecular risk profiling in colorectal cancer
16:35 Laura Sironi Italy
Quantum Steps into Digital Pathology: Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Networks for Cancer Image Analysis
16:45 Jaya Jain India
Multi-magnification scanning of bone marrow aspirate smears enabled by Edge AI at the scanner is a boon for digitisation of haematology labs
16:55 Dmitry Loos Russia
Use of Digital Image Analysis Tools for Assessment of TROP2 Expression in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
17:05 Ilán Carretero Spain
Beyond Patch-Level Bias: Robustness of Pathology Foundation Models in Whole-Slide Image Classification

CHAIR
Jordi Temprana Spain Diana Montezuma Portugal
INVITED SPEAKER
11:15 Tom Bisson United States
"AI-Assisted Molecular Profiling of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma using Paired Multiplex Immunofluorescense and Spatial Transcriptomics"
ABSTRACTS
11:35 Camille Boulagnon-Rombi France
Impact of Artificial Intelligence Assistance on Combined PD-L1 Scoring on Whole Immunohistochemical Slide Image of tumors
11:45 Sanket Kachole United States
Multi-FRUGAL: Multimodal Flexible Redundancy-aware Unified GAted Learning for Head and Neck Cancer Prognosis

CHAIR
Spyridon Bakas United States of America Gonzalo de Toro Chile
ABSTRACTS
13:30 Oskar Thaeter Germany
Thumbnail-Based Special Stain Classification
13:40 Kristijan Skok Austria
Frozen Section 2.0 ? - Confocal Microscopy Enables Confirm-if-Positive Margin Assessment in Robotic Prostatectomy
13:50 Andrea Camilloni Italy
Development and Validation of a Multimodal AI Model to predict Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer after Primary Treatment
14:00 Marie Arrivat France
Leveraging Whole Slide Difficulty in Multiple Instance Learning to Improve Prostate Cancer Grading
14:10 Judith Lefkes Netherlands
Insights from the UNICORN Challenge: Evaluating Foundation Models for Imaging in Computational pathology, Radiology, and Natural language
14:20 David Steiner USA  Kenneth Philbrik USA et al.
Report-style text generation for whole side images using a multimodal open weight vision-language model.

CHAIR
Inti Zlobec Switzerland
INVITED SPEAKER
9:00 Joe Yeong Singapore
"My journey When Immunology meets AI Pathology: The Impact of cross-disciplinary research"

CHAIR
Inti Zlobec Switzerland Chee Leong Singapore
INVITED SPEAKER
9:30 Bernadette Stolz Pretzer Germany
"Learning from Cells and Tissue Architecture: A Topological Approach"
ABSTRACTS
09:50 Garazi Serna Spain
Graph-based spatial modeling of early tumor–immune remodeling predicts response to HER2 blockade
10:00 Melinda Lillesand Norway
Spatial immune profiling and AI-based classifiers identify predictors of BCG therapy outcome in high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
10:10 Jelica Vasiljevic Switzerland
Beyond Pixels: Leveraging High-Resolution Spatial Transcriptomics in Core-Needle Biopsies to Map the Cellular Organisation of the Tumour Microenvironment
10:20 Swann Ruyter France
When High Correlation Isn’t Enough: Rethinking Evaluation in H&E‑Based Gene Expression Prediction

CHAIR
Andrey Bychkov Japan Salma Dammak The Netherlands

INVITED SPEAKER
11:00 Jonathan Liu United States of America
"Non-destructive 3D pathology for precision oncology"
ABSTRACTS
11:20 Agni Papamanoli Netherlands
The Future of Renal Pathology Education: Development of 3D Models for Teaching Glomerular Disease
11:30 Jens Hansen Germany
Evaluation of Lymph Node Status through Virtual 3D Histology using X-Rays
11:40 Melek Büyükgök Turkey
3D Tumor Mapping and Grade Heterogeneity Metrics in Radical Prostatectomy: A Joint Pathology–Computation Feasibility Protocol for Spatially-Informed Reporting
11:50 Silvestri Ludovico Italy
A scalable end-to-end pipeline for 3D digital pathology

CHAIR
Sara Oliveira The Netherlands Diana Montezuma Portugal
INVITED SPEAKER
12:00 Leena Latonen Finland
"Transforming histopathology using generative AI -based virtual staining - challenges and opportunities"
ABSTRACTS
12:20 Rachel Fincham Singapore
H&E 3.0: An AI-Driven, Chemical-Free Virtual Histology Solution Enabling Worldwide Multiomics Profiling
12:30 Devansh Lalwani
A Pathology-Specific Fréchet Inception Distance for Whole Slide Image Quality Assessment Using Foundation Model Features


INVITED SPEAKERS
12:45 Markus Plass AustriaPeter Regitnig Austria
12:50 Vincenzo L'Imperio Italy
12:55 Nadieh Khalili The Netherlands

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