HES-SO Valais-Wallis

Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland; HES-SO) in Sierre includes an eHealth unit at the university's information systems research institute. The eHealth unit that works in several areas of applied research projects. HES-SO has a unique expertise in content-based visual information and image retrieval. Previously, HES-SO has developed part of the Khresmoi system, a multi-lingual multi-modal search and access system for biomedical information and documents. Khresmoi is applied in medical imaging and represents a basis for pathology applications. Visual features and feature modelling in combination with machine learning have led to several successful applications, also to histopathology.