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Podcast: Digital Pathology Podcast
Episode: 179: How is the BigPicture Project using Foundation Models and AI in Computational Pathology?
Description: Send us Fan MailWhat if the biggest breakthrough in pathology AI isn’t a new algorithm—but finally sharing the data we already have?In this episode, I’m joined by Jeroen van der Laak and Julie Boisclair from the IMI BigPicture consortium, a European public-private initiative building one of the world’s largest digital pathology image repositories. The goal isn’t to create a single AI model—but to enable thousands by making high-quality, legally compliant data accessible at scale.We unpack what it really takes to build a 3-million-slide repository across 44 pa...