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	Robert Slunečko 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	Erik N Bergstrom 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.

Main Auditorium

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

9:00-9:15 Opening

9:15-9:45 Keynote I

9:45-10:45 Pathology in the ages of integrative diagnostics

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 ML and AI - Breast Pathology

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 AI in Routine Diagnostics

15:30-16:15 Break

16:15-18:00 Digital Pathology Implementation

11:15-12:00 ML and AI - Nephropathology

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Oral Free Presentations I

14:30-15:30 Machine Learning and Algorithm Development I

15:30-16:15 Break

16:15-17:15 The Odd Couple

17:15-18:00 Bias in AI

11:15-12:00 LabTech Track: Quality Management in Digital Pathology

12:00-12:45 LabTech Track: Lab Readiness in Digital Pathology

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Ethics and Regulation: Safeguarding innovation

14:30-15:30 Oral Free Presentations II

15:30-16:15 Break

16:15-18:00 Challenges in Computational Pathology: How to Assess and Compare Performances

9:00-9:30 Keynote II

9:30-10:15 AI Agents

10:15-10:30 10 year ESDIP Anniversary

10:30-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 ML and AI - Lung Pathology

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 From Validation to Post-Market Surveillance

14:30-15:30 Digital Pathology Neighborhood

15:30-16:15 Break

11:15-12:00 ML and AI - Cytopathology

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Structured Reporting

14:30-15:30 Machine Learning and Algotithm Development II

15:30-16:15 Break

16:15-17:15 Oral Free Presentations IV

17:15-18:15 ESDIP AGM

11:15-12:00 ML and AI - Head and Neck

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Oral Free Presentations III

15:30-16:15 Break

9:00-9:30 Keynote III

9:30-10:30 Spatial Pathology

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 3D Visualization

12:00-12:45 Virtual Staining

12:45-13:00 Closing

13:-14:00 Lunch