The Digital Future Of Pathology

Pathology is the motor that drives healthcare to understand diseases. Digital technologies could push the field into becoming more efficient and more scalable. They could transform the job of pathologists into a more creative and data-driven profession while allowing patients to receive diagnoses faster and more accurately. Let’s see what the digital future of pathology looks like! The foundation of medicine, pathology, has barely changed for over 150 years Although the whole edifice of medicine rests on the pathologist’s diagnosis, the field has not experienced any significant change for the last 150 years; said Thomas Fuchs, Director of Computational Pathology Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Founder of Paige.AI, which is building machine learning algorithms to help digitise pathology, at the NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference a few years ago. “Approximately 90 percent of the work is still done on various stains with methodologies that doctors came up with more than a hundred years ago.” – he added. Although there has been some significant progress in the field – more on it a little later -, this field is still notoriously manual-labour intensive. The entire process of analysing stains is highly subjective and could signify a cumbersome process. For example, in the case of a prostate biopsy, pathologists have to scrutinize around 48 slides. Also, the results depend on the specialty, the personal judgment and, more ofte...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence biotechnology digital digital health pathology Radiology precision medicine medical imaging deep learning Source Type: blogs