Yukako Yagi

Director of Pathology Digital Imaging
Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, USA

Bio:
Yukako Yagi is a digital pathology engineer who has a broad interest in various aspects of medical science, with a primary focus on the development and validation of technologies in digital imaging. In particular, she has conducted research to help standardize many aspects of pathology imaging, such as color and image quality calibration, evaluation and optimization, digital staining, 3D imaging, multimodality imaging, and decision support systems for pathology diagnosis, research, and education. Currently, she directs projects related to Whole Tissue Imaging, Whole Block Imaging and Developing Automated Assessment System for H&E, IHC and Dual ISH. She has started her carrier in US at Georgetown University Medical Center as a visiting systems engineer (1995-1997). She joined University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as a member of Division of Pathology Informatics, Department of Pathology to develop Telepathology system and Whole Slide Imaging System (1997-2006).
Then joined Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School to start Division of Pathology Informatics, Department of Pathology and had the Pathology Imaging and Communication Technology Center at MGH (2007-2016). Since 2016, she is the Director of Pathology Digital Imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.