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Digital Pathology

Implementation in Clinical Practice with AI applications

  • 1st Edition - November 27, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Meera Hameed, Matthew G Hanna
  • Language: English

Digital Pathology: Implementation in Clinical Practice with AI Applications covers digital pathology applications in a clinical pathology laboratory setting, providing guidance… Read more

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Description

Digital Pathology: Implementation in Clinical Practice with AI Applications covers digital pathology applications in a clinical pathology laboratory setting, providing guidance and various tools for practical implementation. This comprehensive and detailed description of nuts and bolts of digital pathology implementation is unique and comes from the experience of high throughput scanning from a large surgical pathology laboratory. This is a valuable reference to prepare the end users not only about thoughtful launch of digital pathology but also to prepare for the future use of AI mediated decision support tools as the field advances.

This book covers the entire range of this topic and can be used as a practical reference for individuals that wish to be part of the evolution of diagnostic pathology. Sections include pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic processes, encompassing hardware, software, space, staffing, quality control, laboratory information system applications, clinical validation, use cases and future applications, including computer assisted diagnosis and decision support tools.

Key features

  • Provides detailed aspects of the implementation of digital pathology in the clinical laboratory, including machine learning/artificial intelligence tools
  • Presents examples of how digital imaging and AI are drivers in research and development in radiology, with parallels to situations in pathology
  • Includes best practices and guidelines that can be practically applied by pathologists and data scientists

Readership

Pathologists, Machine Learning Scientists, Trainees Industry professionals related to Digital and Computational Pathology

Table of contents

1. Basics of Digital Pathology

2. The 5 S’s for Success (Sponsorship, Staffing, Storage, Space, Scanners)

3. Pre-analytics

4. Analytic and post-analytic factors

5. Use cases in Anatomic Pathology

6. Use Cases in Clinical Pathology

7. The Pathologist’s Portal: optimal integration of digital data

8. Regulatory aspects of digital pathology

9. The basics of Machine Learning and AI

10. Machine Learning and AI applications

11. Integration of Diagnostic Imaging in Radiology and Pathology

Review quotes

"…effectively outlines the requirements needed to complete a successful installation of a digital pathology workflow including the foundational technical requirements, how to draft a use case, steps needed to ensure quality and regulatory compliance standards are met, and emerging opportunities for continued innovation… provides an overview of various learning styles of different types of artificial intelligence and example use cases, such as quantifying mitotic figures… The writing is extremely clear and easy to read... This book successfully serves as a high-yield resource for considering the adoption of digital pathology and its implementation planning. I highly recommend it as the first resource to read when beginning the process of adapting any digital pathology technology into a pathology practice and to have it readily available throughout the entire implementation process."
Review by Lauren Miller, MD, MJ (University of Michigan Medical School), ©Doody's Review Service, 2026. Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 27, 2024
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Meera Hameed

Dr. Hameed is the Chief of Surgical Pathology overseeing a large surgical pathology laboratory with over 80,000 cases and generating over a million slides per year. In the last several years her division has undertaken the task of digitizing slides (retrospective and prospective) using multiple platforms with a vision is to incorporate the use of digital information and digital information systems into all aspects of Pathology. She is also the Co-Director for the Warren Alpert Center for Digital and Computational Pathology at her institution. Through the Center an infrastructure has been established for deep learning which includes a high-performance computing cluster with a solid foundation to foster collaborations among experimental and diagnostic pathologists, computer and imaging scientists and experts in deep learning and artificial intelligence.
Affiliations and expertise
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

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Matthew G Hanna

Dr. Hanna is the Director of Digital Pathology Informatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He leads the digital transformation of the pathology department as it related to clinical implementation and translation of digital pathology. Dr Hanna speaks regularly at international and domestic conferences on the successful deployment of digital pathology at his institution. The large pathology department has demonstrated a high volume of prospective clinical scanning, and retrospective archival digitization of over 5 million slides to date. Dr Hanna has also collaborated with computational pathology researchers to develop and integrate clinical decision support tools in the Department. Through the early adopter status and developed infrastructure at the institution, practical implementation steps and lessons learned can be used as a blueprint for other institutions to enable success
Affiliations and expertise
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

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