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OPTImaL clinical trial gets funded by KWF

The Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) dedicates 4.1 million euros for large-scale international research into forgoing chemotherapy in women with early-stage TNBC.

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NWO AiNed XS Europe grant awarded to Sara P. Oliveira

The stAINs project aims to explore deep generative models to simulate immuno-staining in breast tissue samples.

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H100 server joins our AI cluster

We have added Herakles, a server with 8xH100 SXM5 GPUs, to our Kosmos cluster. This will allow us to scale our AI models significantly.

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New A100 80GB server installed

Another compute node has been installed in the AI for Oncology Cluster kosmos. The server, nicknamed euctemon, consists of 8xA100 80G, dual CPU and 1TB of memory. Euctemon joins the slurm cluster which now consists out of 16xA100 80GB, 16xA6000 48GB and 4x RTX2080Ti, and 1 PB NAS.

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DeepSMILE published in Medical Image Analysis

In this work we use whole-slide image (WSI) compression and multiple instance learning to predict homologous recombination deficiency and microsatellite instability from breast cancer and colorectal cancer WSIs. Both these labels are closely related to a patient’s response to immune- and targeted therapies.

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Yoni Schirris wins pitch competition

Last week the pre-selected three best candidates from each UvA faculty competed against each other. Yoni Schirris was the overall winner with his pitch on AI and cancer histopathology. He is working to determine which cancer patients may benefit from immunotherapy.

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