Laboratory for Collaborative Diagnostics

St. Michaels's hospital, The Laboratory for Collaborative Diagnostics and gDial Inc. have started a project to image brain slices. The images and all the accompanying meta-data will be captured in the open source biotiff image format which can be downloaded from here. The biotiff format will be modified to accomodate the requirements of brain imaging. This modified format will be called BrainTIFF.

Dr. Ian Crandall, the LCD's Director of Parasitology, was interviewed on the CBC's "The Current" about an anti-malarial grown by a Ugandan farmer. The radio piece is found here.

Dr. Ian Crandall and Dr. West Suhanic of the LCD did a live malaria parasite presentation via the Access Grid on Thursday, Oct.28, 2010 starting at 1:00PM EDT. The goal was to image the parasites and then share those images with the world via the Access Grid. The presentation lasted an hour.

Drs. Pennefather, Crandall and Suhanic have published an article on counterfeit anti-malarials in the Malaria Journal. The article's title is "Pill characterization data streams for reducing exposure to inadequately identified anti-malarial medication in developing countries". The article which was published on July 22, 2010 in Volume 9 of the Malaria Journal can be found here.

Dr Pennefather and Dr Suhanic gave an invited talk at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion on May 7,2009 at 10:00AM. The title of the talk was “The BioTIFF/Intercase Project Delivering Annotated, Indexed and Federated Virtual Slides that Support One-Cell/One-Record Solutions”

Drs. Suhanic, Crandall and Pennefather published a paper in Malaria Journal 2009, 8:164 (17 July 2009). The title of the article is: "An informatics model for guiding assembly of telemicrobiology workstations for malaria collaborative diagnostics using commodity products and open-source software".
The paper is available here.

On May 26, 2009 Dr. Pennefather and Dr. Suhanic presented the talk: "Collaborative Diagnostics and the Intercase: Addressing the One Person One Record Problem". The talked was sponsored by KMDI and was given at the Bahen Centre.

Dr. Suhanic and Dr. Pennefather presented the BioTIFF and Intercase technology at OCE Discovery 09 which was held at the Toronto Convention Centre May 11-12, 2009. In addition to health care applications, opportunities for the technologies where identified in fields as diverse as: truck oil filtration, wind turbine examination, air filtration and medical device safety.

Dr. Peter Pennefather and Dr. West Suhanic presented the SafePillNet concept at the poster session of the 12th Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences(CSPS) Annual Symposium, June 3-6, 2009, Toronto. The symposium was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Dr. Ian Crandall, the Director of Parasitology for the Laboratory of Collaborative Diagnostics, appeared on IChannel. IChannel is Canada's public and social affairs issues channel. Dr. Crandall appeared on Episode 41 of Season 8: "Pathogens on the Warpath"