University of Waterloo’s Kimia Lab and Huron Digital Pathology to Participate

in $126M Industry Consortium Led by Sunnybrook Research Institute

The Canadian government, through its Strategic Innovation Fund, will invest up to $49 million to
support the initiative, which, in addition to Kimia Lab and Huron Digital Pathology, consists of
more than 70 partners from industry, academia, government organizations and not-for-profits. The
consortium’s mandate is to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning
technologies to deliver better health outcomes, faster diagnoses and safer treatments.

Waterloo, Canada, June 03, 2019 --(PR.com)-- University of Waterloo's Kimia Lab announced today that
it will participate in the $126 million Industry Consortium for Image Guided Therapy (ICIGT) led by the
Sunnybrook Research Institute, with investment partnership from the Canadian government.

The Canadian government, through its Strategic Innovation Fund, will invest up to $49 million to support
the ICIGT initiative, which, in addition to Kimia Lab and Huron Digital Pathology, consists of more than
70 partners from industry, academia, government organizations and not-for-profits. The consortium's
mandate is to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to
deliver better health outcomes, faster diagnoses and safer treatments that minimize side effects and the
length of hospital stays.

Kimia and Huron's project within ICIGT aims to develop intelligent algorithms for consensus building
and auto-reporting in digital pathology to improve the speed, cost and accuracy of diagnosis. Huron, in
technical partnership with the Kimia Lab, recently introduced the world's first image search engine that
connects pathologists to the vast knowledge contained in the world's pathology reports.

“This is a historic opportunity to initiate a major change in diagnostic pathology,” says professor Hamid
Tizhoosh, Director of Kimia Lab at University of Waterloo. “The AI-driven auto-reporting will be the
main output of the project enabling diagnostic consensus by accessing large archives of histopathology
images and learning from evidently diagnosed cases of the past.”

“With this project we will develop and bring to market novel technology that addresses a severe shortage
of pathologists in Canada and around the world,” adds Patrick Myles, CEO of Huron Digital Pathology.
“Together with our fellow ICIGT members, and with support from the Canadian government, we are
further positioning Canada as a world leader in leading-edge medical technologies.”

About Kimia Lab

The Laboratory for Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis (short Kimia Lab) is a research
group hosted at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, On, Canada. Kimia Lab, established
in 2013, is a member of Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute and conducts research at the forefront of
mass image data in medical archives using machine learning schemes with ultimate goal of extracting
information that cannot only support a more speedy and accurate diagnosis and treatment of many
diseases but also establish new quality assurance based on mining of existing evidence. The lab trains
graduate and undergraduate students and annually hosts international visiting scholars. Professor Hamid

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Tizhoosh, Kimia Lab's director, is an expert in medical image analysis who has been working on different
aspects of artificial intelligence since 1993. He is a faculty affiliate to the Vector Institute.

About Huron Digital Pathology

Based in St. Jacobs, ON, we are on a mission to transform glass slides into shareable knowledge. Our
Scan, Index, and Search solution for pathology combines award-winning whole slide imaging hardware
with powerful image search technology to connect pathologists, researchers and educators with the
expertise of their colleagues to help speed up diagnosis and accelerate disease research.
www.hurondigitalpathology.com

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Contact Information:
Kimia Lab
Hamid Tizhoosh
519-888-4567
Contact via Email
http://kimia.uwaterloo.ca/

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