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Review Article:
Role of Telemedicine in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings
Mohammad Reza F. Aghdam, Aleksandar Vodovnik, Rania Adel Hameed
J Pathol Inform
2019, 10:35 (18 November 2019)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_20_19
We reviewed the role of telemedicine in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, which play an important role in the provision of effective and tailored patient care in diverse clinical settings. This article is based on conducted search in PubMed. Search terms included “telemedicine,” “multidisciplinary team,” and “(telemedicine) and (multidisciplinary team).” Telemedicine provides an important advantage in the provision of MDT meeting comparing with traditional settings. Those include improved access to and collaboration of medical experts. This resulted in increased levels of medical competence and improved provisions of diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up to patients irrespective of location.
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The landscape of digital pathology in transplantation: From the beginning to the virtual E-slide
Ilaria Girolami, Anil Parwani, Valeria Barresi, Stefano Marletta, Serena Ammendola, Lavinia Stefanizzi, Luca Novelli, Arrigo Capitanio, Matteo Brunelli, Liron Pantanowitz, Albino Eccher
J Pathol Inform
2019, 10:21 (1 July 2019)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_27_19
PMID
:31367473
Background:
Digital pathology has progressed over the last two decades, with many clinical and nonclinical applications. Transplantation pathology is a highly specialized field in which the majority of practicing pathologists do not have sufficient expertise to handle critical needs. In this context, digital pathology has proven to be useful as it allows for timely access to expert second-opinion teleconsultation. The aim of this study was to review the experience of the application of digital pathology to the field of transplantation.
Methods:
Papers on this topic were retrieved using PubMed as a search engine. Inclusion criteria were the presence of transplantation setting and the use of any type of digital image with or without the use of image analysis tools; the search was restricted to English language papers published in the 25 years until December 31, 2018.
Results:
Literature regarding digital transplant pathology is mostly about the digital interpretation of posttransplant biopsies (75 vs. 19), with 15/75 (20%) articles focusing on agreement/reproducibility. Several papers concentrated on the correlation between biopsy features assessed by digital image analysis (DIA) and clinical outcome (45/75, 60%). Whole-slide imaging (WSI) only appeared in recent publications, starting from 2011 (13/75, 17.3%). Papers dealing with preimplantation biopsy are less numerous, the majority (13/19, 68.4%) of which focus on diagnostic agreement between digital microscopy and light microscopy (LM), with WSI technology being used in only a small quota of papers (4/19, 21.1%).
Conclusions:
Overall, published studies show good concordance between digital microscopy and LM modalities for diagnosis. DIA has the potential to increase diagnostic reproducibility and facilitate the identification and quantification of histological parameters. Thus, with advancing technology such as faster scanning times, better image resolution, and novel image algorithms, it is likely that WSI will eventually replace LM.
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National Society for Histotechnology and digital pathology association online self-paced digital pathology certificate of completion program
Elizabeth A Chlipala, Traci DeGeer, Kathleen Dwyer, Shelley Ganske, David Krull, Haydee Lara, Lisa Manning, Dylan Steiner, Lisa Stephens, Diane Sterchi, Aubrey Wanner, Connie Wildeman, Liron Pantanowitz
J Pathol Inform
2019, 10:14 (3 April 2019)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_5_19
PMID
:31057983
The field of digital pathology has rapidly expanded within the last few years with increasing adoption and growth in popularity. As digital pathology matures, it is apparent that we need well-trained individuals to manage our whole-slide imaging systems. This editorial introduces the joint National Society for Histotechnology and Digital Pathology Association online self-paced digital pathology certificate program which was launched in May 2018 that was established to meet this demand. An overview of how this program was developed, the content of the educational modules, and the way that this program is being offered is discussed.
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Introduction to digital image analysis in whole-slide imaging: A white paper from the digital pathology association
Famke Aeffner, Mark D Zarella, Nathan Buchbinder, Marilyn M Bui, Matthew R Goodman, Douglas J Hartman, Giovanni M Lujan, Mariam A Molani, Anil V Parwani, Kate Lillard, Oliver C Turner, Venkata N P Vemuri, Ana G Yuil-Valdes, Douglas Bowman
J Pathol Inform
2019, 10:9 (8 March 2019)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_82_18
PMID
:30984469
The advent of whole-slide imaging in digital pathology has brought about the advancement of computer-aided examination of tissue via digital image analysis. Digitized slides can now be easily annotated and analyzed via a variety of algorithms. This study reviews the fundamentals of tissue image analysis and aims to provide pathologists with basic information regarding the features, applications, and general workflow of these new tools. The review gives an overview of the basic categories of software solutions available, potential analysis strategies, technical considerations, and general algorithm readouts. Advantages and limitations of tissue image analysis are discussed, and emerging concepts, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, are introduced. Finally, examples of how digital image analysis tools are currently being used in diagnostic laboratories, translational research, and drug development are discussed.
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Invention and early history of telepathology (1985-2000)
Ronald S Weinstein, Michael J Holcomb, Elizabeth A Krupinski
J Pathol Inform
2019, 10:1 (24 January 2019)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_71_18
PMID
:30783545
This narrative-based paper provides a first-person account of the early history of telepathology (1985–2000) by the field's inventor, Ronald S. Weinstein, M. D. During the 1980s, Dr. Weinstein, a Massachusetts General Hospital-trained pathologist, was director of the Central Pathology Laboratory (CPL) for the National Cancer Institute-funded National Bladder Cancer Project, located at Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL. The CPL did post therapy revalidations of surgical pathology and cytopathology diagnoses before outcomes of the completed clinical trials were published. The CPL reported that interobserver variability was invalidating inclusion of dozens of treated bladder cancer patients in published reports on treatment outcomes. This problem seemed ripe for a technology-assisted solution. In an effort to solve the interobserver variability problem, Dr. Weinstein devised a novel solution, dynamic-robotic telepathology, that would potentially enable CPL uropathologists to consult on distant uropathology cases in real-time before their assignment to urinary bladder cancer, tumor stage, and grade-specific clinical trials. During the same period, universities were ramping up their support for faculty entrepreneurism and creating in-house technology transfer organizations. Dr. Weinstein recognized telepathology as a potential growth industry. He and his sister, Beth Newburger, were a successful brother–sister entrepreneur team. Their PC-based education software business, OWLCAT™, had just been acquired by Digital Research Inc., a leading software company, located in California. With funding from the COMSAT Corporation, a publically traded satellite communications company, the Weinstein-Newburger team brought the earliest dynamic-robotic telepathology systems to market. Dynamic-robotic telepathology became a dominant telepathology technology in the late 1990s. Dr. Weinstein, a serial entrepreneur, continued to innovate and, with a team of optical scientists at The University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences, developed the first sub-1-min whole-slide imaging system, the DMetrix DX-40 scanner, in the early 2000s.
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Twenty years of digital pathology: An overview of the road travelled, what is on the horizon, and the emergence of vendor-neutral archives
Liron Pantanowitz, Ashish Sharma, Alexis B Carter, Tahsin Kurc, Alan Sussman, Joel Saltz
J Pathol Inform
2018, 9:40 (21 November 2018)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_69_18
PMID
:30607307
Almost 20 years have passed since the commercial introduction of whole-slide imaging (WSI) scanners. During this time, the creation of various WSI devices with the ability to digitize an entire glass slide has transformed the field of pathology. Parallel advances in computational technology and storage have permitted rapid processing of large-scale WSI datasets. This article provides an overview of important past and present efforts related to WSI. An account of how the virtual microscope evolved from the need to visualize and manage satellite data for earth science applications is provided. The article also discusses important milestones beginning from the first WSI scanner designed by Bacus to the Food and Drug Administration approval of the first digital pathology system for primary diagnosis in surgical pathology. As pathology laboratories commit to going fully digitalize, the need has emerged to include WSIs into an enterprise-level vendor-neutral archive (VNA). The different types of VNAs available are reviewed as well as how best to implement them and how pathology can benefit from participating in this effort. Differences between traditional image algorithms that extract pixel-, object-, and semantic-level features versus deep learning methods are highlighted. The need for large-scale data management, analysis, and visualization in computational pathology is also addressed.
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Artificial intelligence and digital pathology: Challenges and opportunities
Hamid Reza Tizhoosh, Liron Pantanowitz
J Pathol Inform
2018, 9:38 (14 November 2018)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_53_18
PMID
:30607305
In light of the recent success of artificial intelligence (AI) in computer vision applications, many researchers and physicians expect that AI would be able to assist in many tasks in digital pathology. Although opportunities are both manifest and tangible, there are clearly many challenges that need to be overcome in order to exploit the AI potentials in computational pathology. In this paper, we strive to provide a realistic account of all challenges and opportunities of adopting AI algorithms in digital pathology from both engineering and pathology perspectives.
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The human interface of biomedical informatics
Edward C Klatt
J Pathol Inform
2018, 9:30 (6 September 2018)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_39_18
PMID
:30237909
Biomedical informatics is the science of information, where information is defined as data with meaning. This definition identifies a fundamental challenge for informaticians: connecting with the healthcare team by enabling the acquisition, retrieval, and processing of information within the cognitive capabilities of the human brain. Informaticians can become aware of the constraints involved with cognitive processing and with workplace factors that impact how information is acquired and used to facilitate an improved user interface providing information to healthcare teams. Constraints affecting persons in the work environment include as follows: (1) cognitive processing of information; (2) cognitive load and memory capacity; (3) stress-affecting cognition; (4) cognitive distraction, attention, and multitasking; (5) cognitive bias and flexibility; (6) communication barriers; and (7) workplace environment. The human brain has a finite cognitive load capacity for processing new information. Short-term memory has limited throughput for processing of new informational items, while long-term memory supplies immediate simultaneous access to multiple informational items. Visual long-term memories can be extensive and detailed. Attention may be task dependent and highly variable among persons and requires maintaining control over distracting information. Multitasking reduces the effectiveness of working memory applied to each task. Transfer of information from person to person, or machine to person, is subject to cognitive bias and environmental stressors. High-stress levels increase emotional arousal to reduce memory formation and retrieval. The workplace environment can impact cognitive processes and stress, so maintaining civility augments cognitive abilities. Examples of human-computer interfaces employing principles of cognitive informatics inform design of systems to enhance the user interface.
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A review on the applications of crowdsourcing in human pathology
Roshanak Alialy, Sasan Tavakkol, Elham Tavakkol, Amir Ghorbani-Aghbologhi, Alireza Ghaffarieh, Seon Ho Kim, Cyrus Shahabi
J Pathol Inform
2018, 9:2 (14 February 2018)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_65_17
PMID
:29531847
The advent of the digital pathology has introduced new avenues of diagnostic medicine. Among them, crowdsourcing has attracted researchers' attention in the recent years, allowing them to engage thousands of untrained individuals in research and diagnosis. While there exist several articles in this regard, prior works have not collectively documented them. We, therefore, aim to review the applications of crowdsourcing in human pathology in a semi-systematic manner. We first, introduce a novel method to do a systematic search of the literature. Utilizing this method, we, then, collect hundreds of articles and screen them against a predefined set of criteria. Furthermore, we crowdsource part of the screening process, to examine another potential application of crowdsourcing. Finally, we review the selected articles and characterize the prior uses of crowdsourcing in pathology.
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A decade of experience in the development and implementation of tissue banking informatics tools for intra and inter-institutional translational research
Waqas Amin, Harpreet Singh, Andre K Pople, Sharon Winters, Rajiv Dhir, Anil V Parwani, Michael J Becich
J Pathol Inform
2010, 1:12 (10 August 2010)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.68314
PMID
:20922029
Context:
Tissue banking informatics deals with standardized annotation, collection and storage of biospecimens that can further be shared by researchers. Over the last decade, the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the University of Pittsburgh has developed various tissue banking informatics tools to expedite translational medicine research. In this review, we describe the technical approach and capabilities of these models.
Design:
Clinical annotation of biospecimens requires data retrieval from various clinical information systems and the de-identification of the data by an honest broker. Based upon these requirements, DBMI, with its collaborators, has developed both Oracle-based organ-specific data marts and a more generic, model-driven architecture for biorepositories. The organ-specific models are developed utilizing Oracle 9.2.0.1 server tools and software applications and the model-driven architecture is implemented in a J2EE framework.
Result:
The organ-specific biorepositories implemented by DBMI include the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (
http://www.cpctr.info/
), Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance Bioinformatics Consortium (
http://pcabc.upmc.edu/main.cfm
), EDRN Colorectal and Pancreatic Neoplasm Database (
http://edrn.nci.nih.gov/
) and Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) Head and Neck Neoplasm Database (
http://spores.nci.nih.gov/current/hn/index.htm
). The model-based architecture is represented by the National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank (
http://mesotissue.org/
). These biorepositories provide thousands of well annotated biospecimens for the researchers that are searchable through query interfaces available via the Internet.
Conclusion:
These systems, developed and supported by our institute, serve to form a common platform for cancer research to accelerate progress in clinical and translational research. In addition, they provide a tangible infrastructure and resource for exposing research resources and biospecimen services in collaboration with the clinical anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS) and the cancer registry information systems.
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