NPIC - Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative
NPIC (Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative) is a unique collaboration between NHS, Academic and Industry partners. Beginning in 2019, NPIC will deploy digital pathology across hospitals in the North of England and will develop artificial intelligence tools to help diagnose cancer and other diseases
Summary
- Full digitisation of NHS laboratories covering population of 3 million people
- 760,000 slides per year
- 1 Petabyte of pathology image data per year covering all specialties and stains
- Structured pathology data capture
- Linkages to clinical data and custom dataset generation
- Interoperability, standardisation and quality assurance workpackages
- Ethics, Trust and Public engagement work
- Centre for Digital Pathology Innovation at Leeds for Industry, Academia and Healthcare to collaborate
Further Details
Darren Treanor, Consultant Pathologist - darrentreanor@nhs.net
Dal Bansal, NPIC Operations Director - daljeet.bansal@nhs.net
Partners
Academic
NHS
Industry
Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative, NPIC (Project no. 104687) is supported by a £50m investment from the Data to Early Diagnosis and Precision Medicine strand of the government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, managed and delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
