How to build an end-to-end deep learning pipeline for whole slide image analysis with Databricks Machine Learning Runtime and MLflow
Available on-demand
Today, microscopic scans of tissue samples can be rapidly digitized at a low cost. These high-resolution images provide researchers and clinicians with rich information to help detect the presence of cancer, develop new therapeutics and more. However, most of this work requires labor-intensive human review of these images. Deep learning can augment these workflows by interpreting thousands of images in a matter of minutes.
Despite the promise of deep learning, healthcare and life sciences organizations struggle to implement automated digital pathology workflows for the following reasons:
- It’s slow and cost prohibitive to process large image files (e.g. 1–2 GB per slide)
- Deep learning pipelines are hard to parallelize and can takes weeks to train a model
- Tracking and reproducing experiments across research labs is a challenge
Fortunately, the Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform along with popular open-source projects Apache SparkTM, Spark Deep Learning Pipelines and MLflow make it easy to build a scalable deep learning pipeline for medical image analysis.
Join this webinar to learn:
- How deep learning can be used to automate digital pathology image analysis
- How to use Databricks’s ML Runtime to process thousands of whole slide images in minutes
- How to train an image classifier to detect cancer metastases in tumor segments
- How MLflow can be used to easily track and reproduce clinical experiments
Speakers
- Frank Nothaft, Technical Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Databricks
- Amir Kermany, Healthcare and Life Sciences Solution Architect, Databricks
- Michael Ortega, Industry and Solutions Marketing Lead, Databricks
