About the project

Key figures

• Acronym: PiV (Norwegian title: "Patologi i Vest") 
• Strategic Investment Western Norway Health Athority

Background: Challenges and opportunities

Increasin​g workload and labour shortages constitute a major challenge for pathology departments in the Western Norwegian Health Region. At the same time, digitization is revolutionizing the field of pathology. Never before has so much data been produced in pathology laboratories. Our project will develop methods to transform this data into meaningful clinical information and implement the results in practical applications:

• ​To develop next-generation image analysis methods by application of artificial intelligence
• To improve the pathology workflow by use of process data and optimization algorithms
• To establish a center for applied digitization in the Western Norway ​Health Region