# NCI SEER-LINKED PEDIATRIC WHOLE SLIDE IMAGING (POP: 8/17/2020 - 8/16/2021)

> **NIH NIH N01** · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · 2020 · $203,567

## Abstract

Project Abstract: The development of high-quality digital scanners has made it possible to produce detailed images of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides from cancer patient histological material. Emerging new informatics technologies also make it possible to develop machine learned models to extract additional important features from the digitized slides such as tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, delineating tumor regions and identifying nuclear segmentation. The Kentucky Cancer Registry’s Virtual Tissue Repository (VTR) has experience obtaining the H&E slides for specific patient populations from pathology labs across the state, having these slides digitized, submitting the anonymized digitized images to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for research, and returning the original slides to the contributing pathology labs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10272821
- **Project number:** 261201800013I-0-759102000001-1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
- **Principal Investigator:** THOMAS TUCKER
- **Activity code:** N01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $203,567
- **Award type:** —
- **Project period:** 2020-08-17 → 2021-08-16

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10272821

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10272821, NCI SEER-LINKED PEDIATRIC WHOLE SLIDE IMAGING (POP: 8/17/2020 - 8/16/2021) (261201800013I-0-759102000001-1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10272821. Licensed CC0.

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