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title: 'Episode 223: Yair Rivenson - Inside The Virtual Staining Revolution At Pictor Labs'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-223-yair-rivenson-inside-the-virtual-staining-revolution-at-pictor-labs'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2025-12-08'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fta66bjk2sssh2j4/Yair_Rivensonbhg69.mp3'
---

# Episode 223: Yair Rivenson - Inside The Virtual Staining Revolution 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 …

## Summary

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](https://demo.cisionvision.com/)

[The Path to PathA](http://www.thepathtopatha.com/)

[Pathologists' Assistant Shadowing Network](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14605997/)

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

[Digital Pathology Club](https://digitalpathology.club/digital-pathology-beginners-guide-notification?am_id=dennis985)

[Pictor Labs](https://www.pictorlabs.ai/)

[Pictor Labs Expands AI Pathology Portfolio with Launch of ClearStain™ for Digital Sequencing Workflows](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pictor-labs-expands-ai-pathology-portfolio-with-launch-of-clearstain-for-digital-sequencing-workflows-302606081.html)

[Pictor Labs and PathPresenter Partner to Bring AI-Powered Virtual Stains to the Digital Pathology Community](https://www.pathpresenter.com/pictor-labs-and-pathpresenter-partner-to-bring-ai-powered-virtual-stains-to-the-digital-pathology-community/)

[Virtual Tissue Staining with Yair Rivenson from Pictor Labs - Impact AI podcast](https://pixelscientia.com/podcast/virtual-tissue-staining-with-yair-rivenson-from-pictorlabs/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

People of Pathology Podcast:

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