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Sonal Varma

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Associate ProfessorPathologyQueen's University

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Latest papers

ADPv2: A hierarchical histological tissue type-annotated dataset for potential biomarker discovery of colorectal disease.
Journal of pathology informatics · 2026
MassVision: An Open-Source End-to-End Platform for AI-Driven Mass Spectrometry Imaging Analysis.
Analytical chemistry · 2025
Anomaly detection using intraoperative iKnife data: a comparative analysis in breast cancer surgery.
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2025

All 18 publications

Latest funding

Real-time molecular-imaging guidance of breast conserving surgery
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$692,326
Robotically assisted real-time metabolomic navigation of breast conserving surgery
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$337,724
An integrated spectroscopy-ultrasound surgical navigation system for residual cancer detection in breast surgery.
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$188,350

All 4 grants and awards

18 publications.

ADPv2: A hierarchical histological tissue type-annotated dataset for potential biomarker discovery of colorectal disease.

Yang Z, Li K, Ramandi SG, Brassard P, Khellaf A, Trinh VQ, Zhang J, Chen L, Rowsell C, Varma S, Plataniotis K, Hosseini MS

Journal of pathology informatics2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpi.2025.100537 PMID: 41658283

MassVision: An Open-Source End-to-End Platform for AI-Driven Mass Spectrometry Imaging Analysis.

Jamzad A, Warren J, Syeda A, Kaufmann M, Iaboni N, Nicol CJB, Rudan JF, Ren KYM, Hurlbut D, Varma S, Fichtinger G, Mousavi P

Analytical chemistry20254 citations

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c04018 PMID: 40966530

Anomaly detection using intraoperative iKnife data: a comparative analysis in breast cancer surgery.

Radcliffe O, Connolly L, Jamzad A, Kaufmann M, Merchant S, Engel J, Walker R, Varma S, Fichtinger G, Rudan J, Mousavi P

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery20253 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11548-025-03476-0 PMID: 40728554

Fit-for-Purpose Ki-67 Immunohistochemistry Assays for Breast Cancer

Torlakovic EE, Baniak N, Barnes PJ, Chancey K, Chen L, Cheung C, Clairefond S, Cutz J-C, Faragalla H, Gravel DH

Laboratory Investigation20249 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.labinv.2024.102076

Testing of rapid evaporative mass spectrometry for histological tissue classification and molecular diagnostics in a multi-site study.

Kaufmann M, Vaysse PM, Savage A, Kooreman LFS, Janssen N, Varma S, Ren KYM, Merchant S, Engel CJ, Olde Damink SWM, Smidt ML, Shousha S, Chauhan H, Karali E, Kazanc E, Poulogiannis G, Fichtinger G, Tauber B, Leff DR, Pringle SD, Rudan JF, Heeren RMA, Porta Siegel T, Takáts Z, Balog J

British journal of cancer20248 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41416-024-02739-y PMID: 39294437

Metabolically Active Zones Involving Fatty Acid Elongation Delineated by DESI-MSI Correlate with Pathological and Prognostic Features of Colorectal Cancer.

Kaufmann M, Iaboni N, Jamzad A, Hurlbut D, Ren KYM, Rudan JF, Mousavi P, Fichtinger G, Varma S, Caycedo-Marulanda A, Nicol CJB

Metabolites202312 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/metabo13040508 PMID: 37110166

A retrospective analysis of ezrin protein and mRNA expression in breast cancer: Ezrin expression is associated with patient survival and survival of patients with receptor‐positive disease

Sarah J. Storr, Victoria Hoskin, Radhika Aiyappa‐Maudsley, Abdi Ghaffari, Sonal Varma, Andrew R. Green, Emad A. Rakha, Ian Ogilvie Ellis, Peter A. Greer, Stewart G. Martin

Cancer Medicine20237 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/cam4.5802 PMID: 36938826

Targeting the Ezrin Adaptor Protein Sensitizes Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells to Chemotherapy and Reduces Neoadjuvant Therapy–induced Metastasis

Victoria Hoskin, Abdi Ghaffari, Brian J. Laight, Sandip Kumar Sengupta, Yolanda Madarnas, Christopher J.B. Nicol, Bruce E. Elliott, Sonal Varma, Peter A. Greer

Cancer Research Communications202212 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.crc-21-0117 PMID: 36923551

Domain adaptation and self-supervised learning for surgical margin detection.

Santilli AML, Jamzad A, Sedghi A, Kaufmann M, Logan K, Wallis J, Ren KYM, Janssen N, Merchant S, Engel J, McKay D, Varma S, Wang A, Fichtinger G, Rudan JF, Mousavi P

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery202123 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11548-021-02381-6 PMID: 33956307

Metabolomics patterns of breast cancer tumors using mass spectrometry imaging

Rachel Leigh Theriault, Martin Kaufmann, Kevin Y. M. Ren, Sonal Varma, Randy E. Ellis

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery202115 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11548-021-02387-0 PMID: 34053013

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Sonal Varma

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

ADPv2: A hierarchical histological tissue type-annotated dataset for potential biomarker discovery of colorectal disease.

MassVision: An Open-Source End-to-End Platform for AI-Driven Mass Spectrometry Imaging Analysis.

Anomaly detection using intraoperative iKnife data: a comparative analysis in breast cancer surgery.

Fit-for-Purpose Ki-67 Immunohistochemistry Assays for Breast Cancer

Testing of rapid evaporative mass spectrometry for histological tissue classification and molecular diagnostics in a multi-site study.

Metabolically Active Zones Involving Fatty Acid Elongation Delineated by DESI-MSI Correlate with Pathological and Prognostic Features of Colorectal Cancer.

A retrospective analysis of ezrin protein and mRNA expression in breast cancer: Ezrin expression is associated with patient survival and survival of patients with receptor‐positive disease

Targeting the Ezrin Adaptor Protein Sensitizes Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells to Chemotherapy and Reduces Neoadjuvant Therapy–induced Metastasis

Domain adaptation and self-supervised learning for surgical margin detection.

Metabolomics patterns of breast cancer tumors using mass spectrometry imaging

Real-time molecular-imaging guidance of breast conserving surgery

Robotically assisted real-time metabolomic navigation of breast conserving surgery

An integrated spectroscopy-ultrasound surgical navigation system for residual cancer detection in breast surgery.

Real-time Breast Cancer Surgery Navigation

Frequent collaborators

Gabor Fichtinger

John Rudan

Amoon Jamzad

Parvin Mousavi

Shaila Merchant

Peter Greer

Abdi Ghaffari

David Hurlbut

Natasha Iaboni

Leda Raptis

Tao Wang

Keyue Ding

Doug McKay

Lina Chen

Hala Faragalla

Corwyn Rowsell

Simon Raphael

Miralem Mrkonjic

Ami Wang

Henrike Rees

Nick Baniak

Kathrin Tyryshkin

Zuzana Kos

Bret Wehrli

Randy Ellis

Jean-claude Cutz

Waheed Sangrar

Carson Lo

Gerardo Ferbeyre

Cecil Engel

Michael Reedijk