Welcome Address

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the conference: ADVANCES IN TELEMEDICINE APPLICATIONS. The Joint Meeting with COST Action IC0604. The conference will be held at the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland, 17-18 June 2011. The Conference is being organized by the Department of Pathomorphology of the Military Institute of Medicine and the EU COST Action IC0604 “European Telepathology Network”.
The conference program includes the up-to date presentations on the practical, successful experiences from telemedicine and e-Health Outcomes given by the outstanding providers, in both local and international perspectives. Special sessions will be focused on the telepathology and image analysis: digital pathology, immunohistochemistry, computerized image analysis - the research activities and pilot projects that are relevant to the role of the pathologist in the clinical diagnostic and therapeutic decision. It will be a unique opportunity to be introduced to the European telepathology collection of the Whole Slides Images, network project, automated image analysis and recent progress in image compression - by the European authorities in these fields.

We look forward to meeting you in Warsaw.

Wojciech Kozłowski          Janina Słodkowska            Marcial Garcia Rojo

Chair of the Organizing          Chair of the Scientific   Chair of COST Action IC0604
Committee                                      Advisory Board