Drs. Niazi and Akakin are planned to present at the SPIE Digital Pathology Conference in February in Orlando, FL. Dr. Gurcan will chair the conference. Dr. Akakin will present the paper “An Adaptive Algorithm for Detection of Multiple-Type, Positively Stained Nuclei in IHC images with minimal Prior Information: Application to OLIG2 Staining Glioms” in which she will discuss the method of segmentation of oligodendrocytes and gliomas in OLIG2 immunoperoxidase stained tissue sections. This project is in collaboration with Drs. Otero and Gokozan of OSU Pathology Department. Dr. Niazi will present the paper, “Characterizing primary refractory neuroblastoma: Prediction of outcome by microscopic image analysis” which involves developing pre-treatment clinic-biological biomarkers that can guide precise and effective therapeutic strategies to neuroblastoma. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Weiser of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Dr. Pawel of The Children’s Hos