The Rutgers team comprising Scott Doyle, Anant Madabhushi, Michael D. Feldman(pathologist, UPENN) has been selected to participate in the finals of the BMEIdea competition (www.nciia.org/bmeidea) for their work on developing a computer-aided diagnostic system for detection and staging of prostate cancer from digitized histology. Nationwide only 10 teams were chosen from several hundred to participate in the finals of this prestigious national biomedical engineering competition launched in 2004. BMEidea is a unique competition, in that judges rank entries on all aspects of biomedical commercialization, from product innovation to market need, and from regulatory strategies to social impact.