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From the JAMA Network
March 2018

Not Just Digital Pathology, Intelligent Digital Pathology

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
JAMA Oncol. 2018;4(3):403-404. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.5449

The promise of digital pathology is not the simple transfer of an image from a glass slide to a monitor, nor even the flexibility of distribution and modification of the image, but rather the potential to augment the pathologist’s eye with information/intelligence that cannot be gleaned by human examination. Although automated analysis of immunohistochemistry (IHC) has exceeded human capability to measure expression, to date, that machine-derived data has not changed patient care. However, the emergence of deep learning algorithms (a machine learning method, eg, convolutional neural networks) may soon change this equation.

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