The Swiss Digital Pathology Initiative (SDPI) aims to lead the digital transformation of pathology in Switzerland by creating a standardized digital pathology (DP) repository and tools for clinical research.
Our mission is to fuel advancements in public and private biomedical research by providing access to high-quality DP data.
Digital Repository
SDPI will generate and maintain a growing digital repository, enabling easy access to digitized slides for computational analysis.
Network Development
SDPI aims to establish a national network comprising of university, cantonal, and private hospitals to enhance research and clinical workflows leveraging DP.
Access To Computing Resources
SDPI provides access to localized high-performance computing resources, enabling large-scale cross-site projects utilizing advanced technologies like deep and federated learning.
Digital Pathology Powers
The Innovation
The availability of integrated DP and clinical datasets is a key resource for biomedical research, education, and industry development.
With conveniently accessible DP data, researchers are able to analyze large sets of pathology slides more quickly and more cost effectively, allowing them to focus their efforts on new discoveries. The standardization and sharing of DP data are crucial for the development, testing, and validation of machine learning-enabled tools, which can unlock insights leading to more effective and personalized healthcare interventions.
SDPI Powers
The Access
The SDPI is dedicated to creating a unified national network for DP data to provide biomedical researchers across Switzerland with access to research data and cutting-edge technology. Our work is geared towards delivering standardized, cleaned, and coded pathology data to the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), leveraging the existing BioMedIT infrastructure.
Our Goals
Build a national, secure digital pathology repository for Switzerland
Collect 1 million slides from 2025 to 2028
Grow at a rate of 100,000 samples per year
Use decentralized databases
Support cross-location projects
Use BioMedIT/BMI2
SDPI’s data access will lead to greater research insights, impactful economic development opportunities, and better patient care in Switzerland and worldwide.
Backed By Switzerland. Made For Switzerland.
SDPI is included in the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2025-2028 by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SBFI). The Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures is a report on the status and development of national and international research infrastructures. It is updated by SERI every four years in preparation for the Federal Council Dispatch on the Promotion of Education, Research and Innovation (ERI Dispatch). This report provides an overview of future needs and planned developments in the various research areas and thus serves as a basis for the ERI Dispatch.
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