Postdoctoral fellow - Department of Pathology (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
Deadline: 20.01.2021
Helse Bergen
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Advances in information technology are revolutionizing the field of pathology. Digitization of microscopic slides will enable computational support of pathologists in their daily diagnostic tasks. Never before has so much data been generated in pathology laboratories.
Already now, there is much expertise in the region related to digital pathology and image analysis. By 2022, all four pathology departments in Helse Vest will digitalize all microscopy work on tissue specimen, so that pathologists perform daily diagnostics surrounded by computer screens.
In 2020, the Departments in Bergen and Stavanger received a major strategic funding to develop next generation image analysis applications for quantification of biomarkers, pattern recognition and optimization of processing workflows. In the end of the funding period, a coordination center for applications in computational pathology should be in place in Helse Vest.
The vision of the strategic research project Pathology in the Western Norwegian Health Region - a center for applied digitization is to develop methods that use pathology data and transfer it to important clinical information.
The project is in its initial phase. Currently there are 3 ongoing PhD projects in Stavanger and Bergen. At the Bergen localization, a postdoc position is vacant. The main task of this position will be to develop computer-aided diagnosis based on digital slides of pathological conditions. Beyond that, there will be the opportunity to accompany the strategic project from the very beginning and to play a significant role in shaping it and transfer accomplishments into clinical application.
Development of chronic kidney disease is one main research focus in Bergen. Therefore, some projects will be performed in collaboration with the Renal Research Group at the University of Bergen and with the Norwegian Renal Registry. The project has the task of bringing the pathology departments in the region closer together and establishing common organisational structures in the region. We therefore emphasise the importance of close cooperation between the departments. We expect the project participants to actively contribute to this cooperation and to support it.
Work Tasks
Develop, validate and test machine learning algorithms on digital images of both tumorous and inflammatory conditions
Participate in development and implementation of computational tools in the diagnostic workflow
Contribute to supervision of students from Bachelor-level to PhD-level
Contribute to development of project plans and preparation of applications
Qualifications
Required:
PhD or equivalent degree in one of the following areas: medical image analysis, bioinformatics, computer science, computer vision, or mathematics
Expertise in Python as well as expertise in deep learning model development with Tensorflow / Pytorch or similar
Desired:
Programming background: R, Matlab
Background in computer vision and artificial intelligence
Expertise in handling of big data volumes
Establishing and maintenance of databases
Fluent oral and written English
Personal properties
You are a creative and enthusiastic researcher who enjoys working at the cutting edge of technology
You have a special interest and motivation to work in an interdisciplinary environment and to contribute to better pathology services
You do have good communication skills to work with pathologists for annotation and validation tasks and with the technical laboratory staff of the laboratory with quality issues of histological slides.
