---
title: 'Episode 63: Dr Heather Couture - Machine Learning and Image Analysis in Pathology'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-63-dr-heather-couture-machine-learning-and-image-analysis-in-pathology'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2021-06-07'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/52sjsq/Heather_Couture_-_6_6_21_950_PMbgbyu.mp3'
---

# Episode 63: Dr Heather Couture - Machine Learning and Image Analysis in Pathology

Today my guest is Dr Heather Couture What we discuss with Dr Couture: Her work in computer science and computer vision Her Masters program in robotics and and image analysis of images from Mars Her dissertation work in predicting tumor biomarkers in brea...

## Summary

Today my guest is Dr Heather Couture

What we discuss with Dr Couture:

- Her work in computer science and computer vision

- Her Masters program in robotics and and image analysis of images from Mars

- Her dissertation work in predicting tumor biomarkers in breast cancer

- How she founded Pixel Scientia and the works she does with it

- Transfer learning and how it applies to pathology

- Tissue segmentation in image analysis

- The Pathology ML Insights Newsletter

Links for this episode:

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

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

[The ConfLab from LabVine](https://www.labvinelearning.com/TheConflab)

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

[Pixel Scientia](https://pixelscientia.com)

[Pathology ML Insights Newsletter](https://pixelscientia.com/pathology_ml_insights.html)

[Finding Prognostic Patterns in Gigapixel Images](https://thepathologist.com/inside-the-lab/finding-prognostic-patterns-in-gigapixel-images?utm_content=bufferc4ecc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

[A Deeper Understanding of Breast Cancer](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-deeper-understanding-of-breast-cancer/)

[Deep Learning-based Histology Biomarkers](https://pixelscientia.com/article-deep-learning-based-histology-biomarkers.html)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Website](https://peopleofpathology.podbean.com/)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/peopleofpath)