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”

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Digital Pathology Club

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