Dr. Metin Gurcan will be chairing the Histopathology Image Analysis ( HIMA ) workshop in Chicago, Ill on October 6, 2012 as part of the Pathology Informatics Meeting . HIMA is a series of meetings and workshops organized to advance the field of histopathological image analysis. This workshop aims to bring together clinicians, computer scientists and industrial vendors of digital pathology equipment to discuss clinical challenges and open problems, and present the state-of-the-art research in quantitative image analysis and visualization methods for digital pathology, diagnosis, and prognosis from H&E and IHC stained, multi-parametric imaging. This is the third time that this workshop is organized as part of the Pathology Informatics conference. This year it is going to feature six keynote speakers from both Europe and the USA.