Parandzem Khachatryan, Head of the Department of Pathology at Yerevan State Medical University, Head of the Clinical Pathology Service of University Hospitals, completed a training course in “Digital and Computational Pathology” at the Department of Pathology of Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands earlier this year.
During the six-week training, the university specialist participated in the organization of the CHIMERA challenge (Combining HIstology, Medical Imaging (Radiology), and molEcular Data for Medical pRognosis and diAgnosis) project on the application of artificial intelligence (https://chimera.grand-challenge.org/) .
CHIMERA is an ambitious project: artificial intelligence in the fields of pathology, radiology, it is a multimodal approach. The CHIMERA Challenge aims to advance precision medicine in cancer care by addressing the critical need for multimodal data integration.
“The project I have done concerns bladder and prostate cancer. This project will be my internship report, in other words, a mini-thesis when completing my master’s program,” explains the doctor and scientist, whose name is on the list of co-initiators of this project.
Parandzem Khachatryan participated in the project by digitizing the morphology of more than 700 prostate cases. According to the specialist, the development of digital technologies and the integration of artificial intelligence in everyday life, including in the healthcare sector, is already a fact, so mastering this toolkit in advance and introducing it as much as possible in the university environment is extremely important. “University clinics have sufficient potential to integrate into the developments of artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector; they just need knowledge and desire to adopt innovative approaches and bring them to life,” she assures.