Vet Clin Path Professor: Dr. Candice Chu

06/01/2026

My PhD student, Dr. Yumi Chang, will present our study using VetRec to process medical records in The Dog Aging Project at the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Forum on June 11.

From 30 minutes to seconds. ⏱️🐾

The Dog Aging Project and Texas A&M had thousands of body-weight records buried inside unstructured veterinary PDFs — each one taking 15–30 minutes to extract by hand.

VetRec helped turn 59 messy PDF records into 559 structured data pairs in seconds.
Next stop: 100K+ records.

This is what AI-powered record extraction can unlock for veterinary research: less time buried in charts; more time focused on discovery.

Full presentation at ACVIM ’26 on June 11. 👀

Read the case study → https://zurl.co/mtQJD

Vet Clin Path Professor: Dr. Candice Chu Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences The Dog Aging Project

05/20/2026

[Recruiting Biomedical Sciences MS-Thesis Students]

My lab is offering fully funded, salaried 2-year Master's positions for proactive DVM students interested in applying AI to veterinary medicine.

The lab currently includes two PhD students and two master 's-level research assistants. Most members have recently submitted first-author papers and delivered oral presentations at ACVIM and ACVP, and have received awards such as the Texas A&M CVM Merit Fellowship, Lechner Scholarship, ASVCP Share the Future Presentation Grant, and TAMIDS Student Travel Grant.

Lab members also have opportunities to participate in anatomic and clinical pathology rounds and to become familiar with the operations of the International Veterinary Renal Pathology Service (IVRPS).

(Please see the link in comments for more information.)

05/19/2026

Ever since I was a veterinary student, Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice has been my go-to source for cutting-edge clinical knowledge.

Little did I know that one day I would be invited to contribute the article "Computer Vision and Deep Learning in Small Animal Cytology and Slide Review."

In this invited review, I cover the fundamentals of computer vision for veterinary cytology, current scientific progress, and guidelines for publication.

The regulatory section examines how 9 veterinary organizations address the use of veterinary AI tools in their position or policy statements.

The article also covers industrial implementation and the importance of AI literacy and continuing education for veterinarians.

See the comment for the limited-time free access link.

05/15/2026

Sharing the Mandarin course series from the veterinary pathology organization, Davis-Thompson Foundation.


There are currently four topics, all scheduled for Saturday mornings 8:00-9:30 AM Taiwan time.

1. 6/6/26 Common Cutaneous Neoplasms in Dogs and Cats, Ji-Hang Yin

Focused on epithelial/round/mesenchymal cell tumors, with emphasis on how to diagnose and grade them.

2. 10/3/26 Cytology-Histopathology Correlation, Ji-Hang Yin and Zi-An (Alan) Yu

3. 1/9/27 Pathology of Common and Uncommon Bovine Respiratory Diseases, Chia-Ching (Rory) Chien

4. 4/10/27 Common Diseases of Exotics, Elliott Sinming Chiu (City University of Hong Kong)

Everyone is welcome to register after becoming a member of the foundation: https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/event/seminar-series-in-mandarin-common-cutaneous-neoplasms-in-dogs-and-cats/

04/22/2026

I'm excited to share that we have published our 2VM AI literacy course, "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Tools for Next-Generation Veterinarians." 🎉

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first publication in veterinary medicine to detail teaching modules and a week-by-week schedule for AI literacy in veterinary education:

Module 1: Fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI)
Module 2: Machine learning (ML)
Module 3: Large language models (LLM) and prompt engineering
Module 4: Ethical and legal considerations of AI use
Module 5: AI in veterinary scientific research

It may serve as a useful model for developing AI literacy curricula in veterinary education, and it has been included in the Preparing Students for AI-Integrated Workplaces: Curriculum Design, Skill Development, and Career Readiness collection.

Huang Y-T and Chu CP (2026) Curriculum framework for artificial intelligence literacy in veterinary education. Front. Vet. Sci. 13:1801756. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2026.1801756

03/03/2026

“Claude by Anthropic in PowerPoint” is the best free AI tool for making presentations!

I have tried Canva, Gamma, and NotebookLM, but none of them really solved my issues.

If you are like me and you are:
1. A regular PowerPoint user
2. Able to generate slide text content from documents on your own
3. Not someone who relies on templates
4. But you still want help with layout and design

Then you should definitely download and try the Claude add-in in PowerPoint [Figure 1].

With the Claude add-in, you can:
1. Edit slides using Claude directly inside PowerPoint [Figure 2]
2. It knows which slide you currently have selected
3. It can add charts, restructure the layout, and expand content for that specific slide

For example, for the content in [Figure 3], when I selected “Reformat layout,” Claude generated the following prompt in the right-side chat panel:

“Create two alternative layouts for this slide. Leave this one unchanged and add the new layout options as separate slides after it.”

You can choose to “Allow once” or “Deny” the AI changes. If you are feeling bold, you can even click “Always allow” and immediately see the two AI-generated slides [Figure 4, top and bottom].

Even better: everything on the generated slides is fully editable, including images, icons, text, the size, color, and position of those circles, and even animations if you want to add them.

Now, the question everyone will ask is: if you update slides one by one, what if the overall deck ends up with inconsistent colors and styles?

Here is a tip. Go to the “Color Hunt” website and pick a palette you like. Then, for the slide you want to revise, give Claude a prompt like this:

“Create two alternative layouts for this slide, using an aesthetic design based on the following colors:

D96868
FBF6F6
6A7E3F
4C5C2D

Leave this slide unchanged, and add the new layout options as separate slides after it.”

That is how you can get a polished result like [Figure 5].

Hope this was helpful! Links are in the comments.

01/08/2026

ChatGPT has launched ChatGPT Health, and early access registration is now open.

Each week, 2.3 million people ask health-related questions on ChatGPT. OpenAI has therefore introduced a dedicated feature, ChatGPT Health, with a strong emphasis on privacy and data protection. It can also connect with other apps, including Apple Health, Function, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, AllTrails, and Peloton, and even Instacart, which can add personalized nutrition plans directly to your shopping cart.

OpenAI reports that over a two-year period, they collaborated with more than 260 physicians practicing across 60 countries and dozens of medical specialties to understand what makes answers to health-related questions more helpful or potentially harmful. This group has provided over 600,000 pieces of feedback on model outputs across 30 key focus areas.

Although I have really enjoyed using OpenEvidence, the inability to directly upload medical files has always been inconvenient. I often had to first convert documents into text using ChatGPT before asking questions, which was quite cumbersome. With ChatGPT Health, I can now directly upload photos or files and ask the AI at any time questions like, “How is my cholesterol trending?” or “Can you summarize my most recent bloodwork before my appointment?” This is genuinely exciting 🥺

Now that people have ChatGPT Health, a pet version probably is not too far away.

12/24/2025

Happy Holidays!

Have you tried Your Year with ChatGPT?

Looking back, my three big themes of 2025 were 🤖 building AI into veterinary education, 👩‍🔬 growing my research program, and 🌟 mentorship and academic leadership.

According to ChatGPT, if 2025 handed out awards, mine would be Most Likely to Submit a Grant from an Airport Lounge 🤣

What I love most is how my year was painted in pixels: Still Life with Microscope and Matcha Latte. This AI-generated image perfectly captured my academic home (Texas A&M), my role as a clinical pathologist, my research focus on AI applications, and, of course, my favorite drink: a matcha latte.

How was your 2025? Wishing you a wonderful and fulfilling 2026!

11/25/2025

Stanford AI Review Tool
(Stanford Agentic Reviewer)

Before submitting a paper, you can run it through this tool to check for potential issues. It seems very practical, although I’m not sure how well it performs outside the AI field.

Website: http://paperreview.ai

11/06/2025

Nine years ago in New Orleans, I attended my first ACVP - American College of Veterinary Pathologists meeting, an experience that shaped my career. This year I returned with my PhD student, and this is her first ACVP, too.

Since I launched my lab in June 2024, both doctoral students have excelled. One received the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Merit & Excellence Fellowship. The other earned an American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) Share the Future Presentation Grant for her first conference oral presentation. I was also honored to receive the Wendy Coe Leadership Award from ACVP President in recognition of my participation in the Website Working Group.

After my pre-meeting workshop lecture, an attendee shared that he has been following my work for some time and sees me as someone committed to teaching and to narrowing information gaps. I am grateful for his kindness and for recognizing what I have been trying to achieve.❤️

Beginning next year, I will serve as a co-chair of the ACVP Pathology Informatics Committee. Moving forward, I will take his encouragement with me to serve our community.