The Williamson Lab
Research at the Intersection of AI and Pathology at Emory School of Medicine
About us
The Williamson Lab harnesses information in pathology data using state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to improve diagnosis and treatment options for patients. The lab is led by board certified pathologist Drew FK Williamson, MD.
The Williamson Lab is part of the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute and the AI.Humanity initiative at Emory University. The lab is housed with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Emory University School of Medicine with close ties to the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory and GA Tech.
OUR PRIMARY FOCUS AREAS
Using deep learning-based models for multimodal analysis of pathology data to better understand human disease.
Studying the clinical implementation of such models to maximize patient benefit.
Updates
June ‘24
A further paper from Drew’s postdoc work has been published in Nature: “A Multimodal Generative AI Copilot for Human Pathology”.
Drew presented this work and chaired the AI for Computational Pathology Mini Symposium at Emory. A recoding is available on YouTube.
May ‘24
Drew presented at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference Special Session on Responsible AI for Multimodality Biomedical Data Analysis.
April ‘24
A further paper from Drew’s postdoc work has been published in Nature Medicine: “Demographic bias in misdiagnosis by computational pathology models.”
March ‘24
Two papers from Drew’s postdoc work have been published in Nature Medicine: “Towards a general-purpose foundation model for computational pathology” and “A visual-language foundation model for computational pathology.”
January ‘24
Drew has joined the faculty Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. The Williamson Lab is officially open!