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Public release date: 20-Feb-2013[ | E-mail |
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bilbao@bioef.org
34-665-700-460
Brunel University
A European consortium of medical, research and higher education institutions is developing a network for banks containing digitalised images of human tissue"biobanks" which will help doctors to diagnose different types of possible cancerous tissues taken from patients' biopsies in a shorter time.
The seven partners across four European countries, Spain, the United Kingdom, Netherlands and France are developing the project, known as BIOPOOL, with a budget of 2,500,000 from the European Commission.
"The network will enable clinicians to compare the image of a biopsy for a patient with biopsy images of a large number of other patients across Europe," explained Francesco Moscone, Professor of Business Economics at Brunel University, west London, who is responsible for the business impact of this project.
"The benefits mean that there would be a faster and more accurate diagnosis of diseases, thereby preventing, or reducing, the need for multiple invasive tests."
"Fast and accurate diagnosis will also help in identifying the more appropriate medical treatment, as well as reduce the length of hospital stay."
The existing biobanks are organised collections of biological material and associated health information, for medical-scientific research and diagnostic purposes. In the recent years, biobanks have started digitalising their material, by scanning their samples and storing images and associated information in databases.
But the digital images are usually collected in various different formats, and stored in separated databases and facilities. While image collections carry very valuable knowledge in several fields, their exploitation requires tools to gather, access, visualise, and process large images.
Professor Moscone added: "From the point of view of medical research, the large amount of data shared within BIOPOOL will allow the scientific community to conduct more meaningful clinical trials, especially with respect rare diseases."
"The use of such interconnected sources of data is very promising, as it is expected to reduce diagnosis time and related costs," he said. Roberto Bilbao, Director of the Basque Biobank for Research and coordinator of BIOPOOL project explained that the project involves a significant number of challenges, both technical and non-technical.
It manages very large images, as digitalised bio-images are stored in huge files, even reaching 10-15 GB per image.
The scheme will aggregate data from biobanks until August 2014.
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Notes to Editors:
BIOPOOL will offer services such as on text- and image-based search queries, region-of-interest extraction and automated pathology information extraction for specific types of cancers. It will provide tools for the interconnection of different biobank digital resources, using standard communication protocols. The use of these protocols will allow acquiring, storing and exchanging images and associated data. The project will use storage formats such as OME-XML, OME-TIFF, that are compatible with existing systems. In order to include already existing images, auxiliary modules will be developed to convert images into standard formats.
The challenges include scalability problems and different acquisition protocols for different types of tissues. Furthermore, the comparison between different images of the pool is very complex due to different scales and formats of images, and the biological variability of samples.
The partners involved in the project are: Basque Biobank for Research, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Emedica SL, Cultek SL (Spain), Pertimm SAS (France), Brunel University (United Kingdom), and Erasmus MC (Netherlands).
For further information please visit the website www.biopoolproject.eu
Contact numbers:
Roberto Bilbao (Spain): e-mail: bilbao@bioef.org; mobile. ++34665700460
Francesco Moscone (UK): e-mail: Francesco.Moscone@brunel.ac.uk. ++44 (0)7542154518
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Public release date: 20-Feb-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Roberto Bilbao
bilbao@bioef.org
34-665-700-460
Brunel University
A European consortium of medical, research and higher education institutions is developing a network for banks containing digitalised images of human tissue"biobanks" which will help doctors to diagnose different types of possible cancerous tissues taken from patients' biopsies in a shorter time.
The seven partners across four European countries, Spain, the United Kingdom, Netherlands and France are developing the project, known as BIOPOOL, with a budget of 2,500,000 from the European Commission.
"The network will enable clinicians to compare the image of a biopsy for a patient with biopsy images of a large number of other patients across Europe," explained Francesco Moscone, Professor of Business Economics at Brunel University, west London, who is responsible for the business impact of this project.
"The benefits mean that there would be a faster and more accurate diagnosis of diseases, thereby preventing, or reducing, the need for multiple invasive tests."
"Fast and accurate diagnosis will also help in identifying the more appropriate medical treatment, as well as reduce the length of hospital stay."
The existing biobanks are organised collections of biological material and associated health information, for medical-scientific research and diagnostic purposes. In the recent years, biobanks have started digitalising their material, by scanning their samples and storing images and associated information in databases.
But the digital images are usually collected in various different formats, and stored in separated databases and facilities. While image collections carry very valuable knowledge in several fields, their exploitation requires tools to gather, access, visualise, and process large images.
Professor Moscone added: "From the point of view of medical research, the large amount of data shared within BIOPOOL will allow the scientific community to conduct more meaningful clinical trials, especially with respect rare diseases."
"The use of such interconnected sources of data is very promising, as it is expected to reduce diagnosis time and related costs," he said. Roberto Bilbao, Director of the Basque Biobank for Research and coordinator of BIOPOOL project explained that the project involves a significant number of challenges, both technical and non-technical.
It manages very large images, as digitalised bio-images are stored in huge files, even reaching 10-15 GB per image.
The scheme will aggregate data from biobanks until August 2014.
###
Notes to Editors:
BIOPOOL will offer services such as on text- and image-based search queries, region-of-interest extraction and automated pathology information extraction for specific types of cancers. It will provide tools for the interconnection of different biobank digital resources, using standard communication protocols. The use of these protocols will allow acquiring, storing and exchanging images and associated data. The project will use storage formats such as OME-XML, OME-TIFF, that are compatible with existing systems. In order to include already existing images, auxiliary modules will be developed to convert images into standard formats.
The challenges include scalability problems and different acquisition protocols for different types of tissues. Furthermore, the comparison between different images of the pool is very complex due to different scales and formats of images, and the biological variability of samples.
The partners involved in the project are: Basque Biobank for Research, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Emedica SL, Cultek SL (Spain), Pertimm SAS (France), Brunel University (United Kingdom), and Erasmus MC (Netherlands).
For further information please visit the website www.biopoolproject.eu
Contact numbers:
Roberto Bilbao (Spain): e-mail: bilbao@bioef.org; mobile. ++34665700460
Francesco Moscone (UK): e-mail: Francesco.Moscone@brunel.ac.uk. ++44 (0)7542154518
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