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Original Article:
Performance of a web-based method for generating synoptic reports
Megan A Renshaw, Scott A Renshaw, Mercy Mena-Allauca, Patricia P Carrion, Xiaorong Mei, Arniris Narciandi, Edwin W Gould, Andrew A Renshaw
J Pathol Inform
2017, 8:13 (10 March 2017)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_91_16
PMID
:28382227
Context:
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) requires synoptic reporting of all tumor excisions.
Objective:
To compare the performance of different methods of generating synoptic reports.
Methods:
Completeness, amendment rates, rate of timely ordering of ancillary studies (KRAS in T4/N1 colon carcinoma), and structured data file extraction were compared for four different synoptic report generating methods.
Results:
Use of the printed tumor protocols directly from the CAP website had the lowest completeness (84%) and highest amendment (1.8%) rates. Reformatting these protocols was associated with higher completeness (94%,
P
< 0.001) and reduced amendment (1%,
P
= 0.20) rates. Extraction into a structured data file was successful 93% of the time. Word-based macros improved completeness (98% vs. 94%,
P
< 0.001) but not amendment rates (1.5%). KRAS was ordered before sign out 89% of the time. In contrast, a web-based product with a reminder flag when items were missing, an embedded flag for data extraction, and a reminder to order KRAS when appropriate resulted in improved completeness (100%,
P
= 0.005), amendment rates (0.3%,
P
= 0.03), KRAS ordering before sign out (100%,
P
= 0.23), and structured data extraction (100%,
P
< 0.001) without reducing the speed (
P
= 0.34) or accuracy (
P
= 1.00) of data extraction by the reader.
Conclusion:
Completeness, amendment rates, ancillary test ordering rates, and data extraction rates vary significantly with the method used to construct the synoptic report. A web-based method compares favorably with all other methods examined and does not reduce reader usability.
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RecutClub.com: An open source, whole slide image-based pathology education system
Paul A Christensen, Nathan E Lee, Michael J Thrall, Suzanne Z Powell, Patricia Chevez-Barrios, S Wesley Long
J Pathol Inform
2017, 8:10 (10 March 2017)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_72_16
PMID
:28382224
Background:
Our institution's pathology unknown conferences provide educational cases for our residents. However, the cases have not been previously available digitally, have not been collated for postconference review, and were not accessible to a wider audience. Our objective was to create an inexpensive whole slide image (WSI) education suite to address these limitations and improve the education of pathology trainees.
Materials and Methods:
We surveyed residents regarding their preference between four unique WSI systems. We then scanned weekly unknown conference cases and study set cases and uploaded them to our custom built WSI viewer located at RecutClub.com. We measured site utilization and conference participation.
Results:
Residents preferred our OpenLayers WSI implementation to Ventana Virtuoso, Google Maps API, and OpenSlide. Over 16 months, we uploaded 1366 cases from 77 conferences and ten study sets, occupying 793.5 GB of cloud storage. Based on resident evaluations, the interface was easy to use and demonstrated minimal latency. Residents are able to review cases from home and from their mobile devices. Worldwide, 955 unique IP addresses from 52 countries have viewed cases in our site.
Conclusions:
We implemented a low-cost, publicly available repository of WSI slides for resident education. Our trainees are very satisfied with the freedom to preview either the glass slides or WSI and review the WSI postconference. Both local users and worldwide users actively and repeatedly view cases in our study set.
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Identification of histological correlates of overall survival in lower grade gliomas using a bag-of-words paradigm: A preliminary analysis based on hematoxylin & eosin stained slides from the lower grade glioma cohort of the cancer genome Atlas
Reid Trenton Powell, Adriana Olar, Shivali Narang, Ganesh Rao, Erik Sulman, Gregory N Fuller, Arvind Rao
J Pathol Inform
2017, 8:9 (10 March 2017)
DOI
:10.4103/jpi.jpi_43_16
PMID
:28382223
Background:
Glioma, the most common primary brain neoplasm, describes a heterogeneous tumor of multiple histologic subtypes and cellular origins. At clinical presentation, gliomas are graded according to the World Health Organization guidelines (WHO), which reflect the malignant characteristics of the tumor based on histopathological and molecular features. Lower grade diffuse gliomas (LGGs) (WHO Grade II–III) have fewer malignant characteristics than high-grade gliomas (WHO Grade IV), and a better clinical prognosis, however, accurate discrimination of overall survival (OS) remains a challenge. In this study, we aimed to identify tissue-derived image features using a machine learning approach to predict OS in a mixed histology and grade cohort of lower grade glioma patients. To achieve this aim, we used H and E stained slides from the public LGG cohort of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to create a machine learned dictionary of “image-derived visual words” associated with OS. We then evaluated the combined efficacy of using these visual words in predicting short versus long OS by training a generalized machine learning model. Finally, we mapped these predictive visual words back to molecular signaling cascades to infer potential drivers of the machine learned survival-associated phenotypes.
Methods:
We analyzed digitized histological sections downloaded from the LGG cohort of TCGA using a bag-of-words approach. This method identified a diverse set of histological patterns that were further correlated with OS, histology, and molecular signaling activity using Cox regression, analysis of variance, and Spearman correlation, respectively. A support vector machine (SVM) model was constructed to discriminate patients into short and long OS groups dichotomized at 24-month.
Results:
This method identified disease-relevant phenotypes associated with OS, some of which are correlated with disease-associated molecular pathways. From these image-derived phenotypes, a generalized SVM model which could discriminate 24-month OS (area under the curve, 0.76) was obtained.
Conclusion:
Here, we demonstrated one potential strategy to incorporate image features derived from H and E stained slides into predictive models of OS. In addition, we showed how these image-derived phenotypic characteristics correlate with molecular signaling activity underlying the etiology or behavior of LGG.
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