Episode 223: Yair Rivenson - Inside The Virtual Staining Revolution At Pictor Labs

About this episode

Yair Rivenson discusses the innovations in virtual staining and the impact of AI on pathology at Pictor Labs.

Today my guest is Yair Rivenson, CEO of Pictor Labs What we discuss with Yair: His engineering and computational imaging background How AI and microscopy intersected to form the foundation of Pictor Labs The origin story of Pictor Labs and why it was founded in 2019 What “virtual staining” really means and how autofluorescence enables it Training stain models: data requirements, timelines, and workflows The impact on tissue preservation, waste reduction, and turnaround times Applications in biorepositories, pharma research, and biomarker discovery Creating new stains based on lab or industry needs The future vision: virtual stains as a data layer for pathology How AI can turn tissue into a “hypothesis-generating machine” Links for this episode: InVision from Cision Vision The Path to PathA Pathologists' Assistant Shadowing Network Health Podcast Network LabVine Learning Dress A Med scrubs Digital Pathology Club Pictor Labs Pictor Labs Expands AI Pathology Portfolio with Launch of ClearStain™ for Digital Sequencing Workflows Pictor Labs and PathPresenter Partner to Bring AI-Powered Virtual Stains to the Digital Pathology Community Virtual Tissue Staining with Yair Rivenson from…

People in this episode

Host: peopleofpathology

Guest: Yair Rivenson

Topics covered

• virtual staining
• AI in microscopy
• biorepositories
• pharma research
• biomarker discovery
• tissue preservation

Keywords

• virtual staining
• AI
• microscopy
• Pictor Labs
• biorepositories
• pharma research
• tissue preservation
• biomarkers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pictor Labs, Cision Vision, Health Podcast Network, LabVine Learning, Digital Pathology Club, PathPresenter, Impact AI podcast

Products: ClearStain™

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