Saltz Research Lab
Joel Saltz, MD, PhD
- Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Renaissance School of Medicine
Office: (631) 638-1420
Email: joel.saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Stony Brook UniversityDepartment of Biomedical Informatics
Health Science Center
Level 3, Room 043
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8322
Research Program
Department
Research Interest
Dr. Saltz is a pioneer in developing Digital Pathology tools, methods and algorithms with the ultimate goal of extracting and leveraging digitalized Pathology information to better predict cancer outcome and to steer cancer therapy. He is also an expert in high end computing and has developed a variety of highly cited systems software methods.
His research in Pathology spans twenty years and consists of closely coordinated efforts in image analysis, machine learning, database design and high end computing. He has developed tools and methods through years of funded projects supported by a wide range of institutes and agencies including NCI, NLM, NIBIB, NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, NASA, DOD and DOE. His seminal work in digital imaging laid the foundation for digital pathology as it is today. He was the first to develop the “Virtual Microscope,” and pioneered developments in digital pathology whole slide image navigation, data management and computer aided classification.
Dr. Saltz’s initial efforts included development of the first whole slide image viewer, and devising efficient methods for management, caching and supporting analytics carried out on whole slide datasets. This work became the foundation of the new field of Pathology Imaging Informatics, today investigators he mentored can be found carrying out exciting research in institutions across the country.
Education
- MD, Duke University
- Clinical Pathology Residency, Johns Hopkins University
