TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pathcore™ and a team of investigators from the US and Canada have received an award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop a pathology informatics platform. This will allow researchers to develop automated cancer detection image analysis tools which can be easily distributed to research and clinical users. The platform will also support the comparison and validation of algorithms by making available high quality annotated datasets.