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Book Review:
Review of "digital pathology" by Yves Sucaet and Wim Waelput
John H Sinard
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:12 (24 February 2015)
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Original Article:
Performance of the CellaVision
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DM96 system for detecting red blood cell morphologic abnormalities
Christopher L Horn, Adnan Mansoor, Brenda Wood, Heather Nelson, Diane Higa, Lik Hang Lee, Christopher Naugler
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:11 (24 February 2015)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.151922
PMID
:25774322
Background:
Red blood cell (RBC) analysis is a key feature in the evaluation of hematological disorders. The gold standard light microscopy technique has high sensitivity, but is a relativity time-consuming and labor intensive procedure. This study tested the sensitivity and specificity of gold standard light microscopy manual differential to the CellaVision
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DM96 (CCS; CellaVision, Lund, Sweden) automated image analysis system, which takes digital images of samples at high magnification and compares these images with an artificial neural network based on a database of cells and preclassified according to RBC morphology.
Methods:
In this study, 212 abnormal peripheral blood smears within the Calgary Laboratory Services network of hospital laboratories were selected and assessed for 15 different RBC morphologic abnormalities by manual microscopy. The same samples were reassessed as a manual addition from the instrument screen using the CellaVision
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DM96 system with 8 microscope high power fields (×100 objective and a 22 mm ocular). The results of the investigation were then used to calculate the sensitivity and specificity of the CellaVision
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DM96 system in reference to light microscopy.
Results:
The sensitivity ranged from a low of 33% (RBC agglutination) to a high of 100% (sickle cells, stomatocytes). The remainder of the RBC abnormalities tested somewhere between these two extremes. The specificity ranged from 84% (schistocytes) to 99.5% (sickle cells, stomatocytes).
Conclusions:
Our results showed generally high specificities but variable sensitivities for RBC morphologic abnormalities.
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Original Article:
A bayesian approach to laboratory utilization management
Ronald G Hauser, Brian R Jackson, Brian H Shirts
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:10 (24 February 2015)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.151921
PMID
:25774321
Background:
Laboratory utilization management describes a process designed to increase healthcare value by altering requests for laboratory services. A typical approach to monitor and prioritize interventions involves audits of laboratory orders against specific criteria, defined as rule-based laboratory utilization management. This approach has inherent limitations. First, rules are inflexible. They adapt poorly to the ambiguity of medical decision-making. Second, rules judge the context of a decision instead of the patient outcome allowing an order to simultaneously save a life and break a rule. Third, rules can threaten physician autonomy when used in a performance evaluation.
Methods:
We developed an alternative to rule-based laboratory utilization. The core idea comes from a formula used in epidemiology to estimate disease prevalence. The equation relates four terms: the prevalence of disease, the proportion of positive tests, test sensitivity and test specificity. When applied to a laboratory utilization audit, the formula estimates the prevalence of disease (pretest probability [PTP]) in the patients tested. The comparison of PTPs among different providers, provider groups, or patient cohorts produces an objective evaluation of laboratory requests. We demonstrate the model in a review of tests for enterovirus (EV) meningitis.
Results:
The model identified subpopulations within the cohort with a low prevalence of disease. These low prevalence groups shared demographic and seasonal factors known to protect against EV meningitis. This suggests too many orders occurred from patients at low risk for EV.
Conclusion:
We introduce a new method for laboratory utilization management programs to audit laboratory services.
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Original Article:
Clinical laboratory analytics: Challenges and promise for an emerging discipline
Brian H Shirts, Brian R Jackson, Geoffrey S Baird, Jason M Baron, Bryan Clements, Ricky Grisson, Ronald George Hauser, Julie R Taylor, Enrique Terrazas, Brad Brimhall
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:9 (24 February 2015)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.151919
PMID
:25774320
The clinical laboratory is a major source of health care data. Increasingly these data are being integrated with other data to inform health system-wide actions meant to improve diagnostic test utilization, service efficiency, and "meaningful use." The Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists hosted a satellite meeting on clinical laboratory analytics in conjunction with their annual meeting on May 29, 2014 in San Francisco. There were 80 registrants for the clinical laboratory analytics meeting. The meeting featured short presentations on current trends in clinical laboratory analytics and several panel discussions on data science in laboratory medicine, laboratory data and its role in the larger healthcare system, integrating laboratory analytics, and data sharing for collaborative analytics. One main goal of meeting was to have an open forum of leaders that work with the "big data" clinical laboratories produce. This article summarizes the proceedings of the meeting and content discussed.
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Symposium - 2nd Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology:
RandomSpot: A web-based tool for systematic random sampling of virtual slides
Alexander I Wright, Heike I Grabsch, Darren E Treanor
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:8 (24 February 2015)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.151906
PMID
:25774319
This paper describes work presented at the Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology 2014, Linköping, Sweden. Systematic random sampling (SRS) is a stereological tool, which provides a framework to quickly build an accurate estimation of the distribution of objects or classes within an image, whilst minimizing the number of observations required. RandomSpot is a web-based tool for SRS in stereology, which systematically places equidistant points within a given region of interest on a virtual slide. Each point can then be visually inspected by a pathologist in order to generate an unbiased sample of the distribution of classes within the tissue. Further measurements can then be derived from the distribution, such as the ratio of tumor to stroma. RandomSpot replicates the fundamental principle of traditional light microscope grid-shaped graticules, with the added benefits associated with virtual slides, such as facilitated collaboration and automated navigation between points. Once the sample points have been added to the region(s) of interest, users can download the annotations and view them locally using their virtual slide viewing software. Since its introduction, RandomSpot has been used extensively for international collaborative projects, clinical trials and independent research projects. So far, the system has been used to generate over 21,000 sample sets, and has been used to generate data for use in multiple publications, identifying significant new prognostic markers in colorectal, upper gastro-intestinal and breast cancer. Data generated using RandomSpot also has significant value for training image analysis algorithms using sample point coordinates and pathologist classifications.
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Symposium - 2nd Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology:
A comparative study of input devices for digital slide navigation
Jesper Molin, Claes Lundström, Morten Fjeld
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:7 (24 February 2015)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.151894
PMID
:25774318
This paper describes work presented at the Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology 2014, Linköping, Sweden. Quick and seamless integration between input devices and the navigation of digital slides remains a key barrier for many pathologists to "go digital." To better understand this integration, three different input device implementations were compared in terms of time to diagnose, perceived workload and users' preferences. Six pathologists reviewed in total nine cases with a computer mouse, a 6 degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) navigator and a touchpad. The participants perceived significantly less workload (
P
< 0.05) with the computer mouse and the 6DOF navigator, than with the touchpad, while no effect of the input device used on the time to diagnose was observed. Five out of six pathologists preferred the 6DOF navigator, while the touchpad was the least preferred device. While digital slide navigation is often designed to mimic microscope interaction, the results of this study demonstrate that in order to minimize workload there is reason to let the digital interaction move beyond the familiar microscope tradition.
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Symposium - 2nd Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology:
Histopathology in 3D: From three-dimensional reconstruction to multi-stain and multi-modal analysis
Derek Magee, Yi Song, Stephen Gilbert, Nicholas Roberts, Nagitha Wijayathunga, Ruth Wilcox, Andrew Bulpitt, Darren Treanor
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:6 (24 February 2015)
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:10.4103/2153-3539.151890
PMID
:25774317
Light microscopy applied to the domain of histopathology has traditionally been a two-dimensional imaging modality. Several authors, including the authors of this work, have extended the use of digital microscopy to three dimensions by stacking digital images of serial sections using image-based registration. In this paper, we give an overview of our approach, and of extensions to the approach to register multi-modal data sets such as sets of interleaved histopathology sections with different stains, and sets of histopathology images to radiology volumes with very different appearance. Our approach involves transforming dissimilar images into a multi-channel representation derived from co-occurrence statistics between roughly aligned images.
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Symposium - 2nd Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology:
Summary of 2
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Nordic symposium on digital pathology
Claes Lundström, Sten Thorstenson, Marie Waltersson, Anders Persson, Darren Treanor
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:5 (24 February 2015)
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:10.4103/2153-3539.151889
PMID
:25774316
Techniques for digital pathology are envisioned to provide great benefits in clinical practice, but experiences also show that solutions must be carefully crafted. The Nordic countries are far along the path toward the use of whole-slide imaging in clinical routine. The Nordic Symposium on Digital Pathology (NDP) was created to promote knowledge exchange in this area, between stakeholders in health care, industry, and academia. This article is a summary of the NDP 2014 symposium, including conclusions from a workshop on clinical adoption of digital pathology among the 144 attendees.
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Commentary:
Evaluating whole slide imaging: A working group opportunity
Darren Treanor, Brandon D Gallas, Marios A Gavrielides, Stephen M Hewitt
J Pathol Inform
2015, 6:4 (24 February 2015)
PMID
:25774315
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