VirtualStain

VirtualStain will develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools to process, label and analyse microscopy and nanoscopy images of tissues and cells. This will make the time-consuming task of chemically staining (with noxious chemicals) such images obsolete. Applying AI to such a task will also enable researcher to image and label living tissues and cells, and follow them in real-time. New insights provided on tissue and cell function through these enhanced labelling and monitoring processes will allow for the development of complex and dynamic AI models of tissue and cells systems for use in medical research.

VirtualStain is led by professor Alexander Horsch at the Department of Computer Sciences. Dilip Prasad, also from the Department of Computer Sciences serves as deputy project manager.

The project includes the following collaborating departments:

• Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Science and Technology)
• Department of Physics and Technology (Faculty of Science and Technology)
• Department of Clinical Medicine (Faculty of Health Science)
• The Norwegian College of Fishery Science (Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics)