Dear colleagues,
The 21st European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP2025) Scientific Committee is pleased to invite you to submit your work for presentation.
The congress will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on 25-28th June 2025 as an in-person meeting.
The ECDP2025 focus areas will include (but are not limited to):
- Integrative Diagnostics - Studies that merge Pathology and other specialties/domains
- Multimodal and Foundation models - Exploration of large-scale AI models that can be adapted to specific tasks in Pathology
- Generative AI - Research on generative algorithms to support pathology research and diagnostics
- Machine Learning and Algorithm Development - Studies focused on the creation and optimization of ML algorithms tailored to Pathology
- Clinical Applications of AI - Using AI in clinical routine
- Digital Pathology Workflow Implementation - Strategies and best practices for deploying digital pathology solutions
- Quality Assurance
- Digital Pathology - Business Case / Sustainability - Insights into building a compelling business case for Digital Pathology
- Interoperability in Digital and Computational Pathology - Data standardization, compatibility of digital imaging formats, and cross-platform functionality
- Emerging Technologies - Studies regarding innovative technologies with potential for Pathology
- The Odd Couple - Special session where we are looking for joint presentations showcasing the joint effort across disciplines (e.g. 1 Pathologist / 1 Computer scientist; 1 Pathologist / 1 Biomedical Scientist / etc.). The topic should fit one of the previous categories
- Structured Reporting - Digital Pathology/AI & structured reporting
- Bias in AI - Data and other bias in AI applied to Pathology
- Ethics and Regulation - Ethical and regulatory aspects in digital and computational pathology
See below for the Abstract Submission Guidelines.
As usual, the best abstracts submitted will be selected for oral presentations. The best oral presentation and the best poster presented at ECDP2025 will receive awards from ESDIP.
For the second year, the ECDP2025 organization will allow authors to present their work together. This is an innovative format that aims to bring together interdisciplinary teams (pathologists and computer scientists/ pathologists and lab technicians / etc.).
On behalf of the Scientific Committee of the ECDP2025 Congress,
Vincenzo L’Imperio (Chair)
Abstract Submission Guidelines
You are invited to submit your work under the format of a structured abstract to ECDP2025.
Start of abstract submission: 03.12.2024
Deadline for abstract submission: 14.02.2025
Notification of abstract acceptance: 19.03.2025
The abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee of ECDP2025 in a peer-review, double-blinded process that will select the abstracts accepted and those selected either for poster presentation or for oral presentation.
All accepted abstracts will be published on the conference website.
Registration for the congress is mandatory for at least one author (speaker, correspondence). If the abstract is selected for oral presentation, then the speaker needs to be registered for the congress.
The submission of the abstract must include the following:
- Abstract title
- Corresponding author details (full name, institutional address, e-mail address - provided on registration)
- Other authors’ details (full name, institutional address)
- Abstract body with a maximum of 250 words. This does not include the title or authors
- 3 to 6 keywords
The body of a scientific abstract should be structured as follows:
- Introduction
- Materials and Methods
- Results
- Conclusions
Use CAPITALS only if necessary (e.g., DNA).