Real-world digital pathology: considerations and ruminations of four young pathologists

Digital pathology offers the opportunity to improve all aspects of pathology by introducing recent technical advancements in daily diagnostic practice.1 Its introduction in routine work, especially as part of a fully digitised workflow, allows for the creation of a smoother, traceable and interconnected environment where primary diagnoses can be rendered directly on digital slides.2 Besides its main use as a diagnostic tool, however, digital pathology has a role in enhancing education of trainees and in research activities.3 In this letter, we present the impressions of two pathology residents and two young pathologists after exposing them to a fully digital workflow. AM: routine practice When I started working in Caltagirone, primary diagnosis on whole slide images was already the standard for routine histology and most cytology cases. I had doubts about the feasibility of this and I thought that image quality could not...
Source: Journal of Clinical Pathology - Category: Pathology Authors: Tags: PostScript Source Type: research