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A new post was added in the blog section of the website, talking about the use of biomedical annotation tools to support, organize, and speed up the annotation process of medical reports. What are the different and available annotation tools that can be used in the biomedical domain? What advantages can be provided by such tools? Are there any cons?

Examode is supporting the TIGER challenge on automated assessment of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in breast cancer histopathology.

The supporting role of Examode is described on TIGER’s website.

Examode is a sponsor of the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF 2021 edition).

ExaMode is a gold sponsor of the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES2021), held the 15-18 September 2021 in Padua, Italy, at the Department of Information Engineering, one of the partners of the project.

DESIRES is a biennial systems-oriented conference emphasizing the innovative technological aspects of search and retrieval systems. It gathers researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss the latest innovative and visionary ideas in the field, encouraging papers about innovative and risky information access and retrieval system ideas, systems-building experience and insight, resourceful experimental studies, provocative position statements, and new application domains.

Svetla Boytcheva was invited by the organizers of the 2021 edition of DataWeek, the spring gathering of the European Big Data Value and Industrial AI research and innovation community, to held the presentation “Metadata in the health care sector”, where the ExaMode project was described.

The event is co-organised by BDVA/DAIRO and EUHubs4Data project.

Sirma AI (Ontotext) organized a webinar on the topic “Data science in Healthcare: Extreme-scale text-based classification of medical data” for the general public, where was presented an introduction to the domain ontologies (SNOMED CT) meant for the general public, and some deep learning tools that can be used for this classification task.
The acknowledgments to the Examode project were expressed at the beginning and the end of the presentation.

The webinar was held through the Facebook and YouTube platforms. The slides of the presentation are also available.

The next ExaMode meeting has been confirmed for the 15th and 21st of June, 2021.

Because of the current situation with COVID-19, this will be an online meeting.

Svetla Boytcheva presented the Examode project activities related to metadata interoperability at the BDVA/DAIRO Activity Group meeting (AG44), April 22nd, 2021, at the online SESSION 3: Metadata Interoperability.

Francesco Ciompi gave a presentation at the ESDIP workshop.

Jeroen van der Laak has a keynote speech at SPIE Medical Imaging Digital Pathology, named Computational Pathology: What is the way forward?