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ReviewThe Journal of pathology2022

Developing image analysis methods for digital pathology.

Peter Bankhead

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Review in The Journal of pathology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Comparison of multiple quantitative strategies for neuropathologic image analyses.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2025
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  13. Digital pathology in tau research: A comparison of QuPath and HALO.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Peter BankheadEdinburgh Pathology, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4851-8813

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The potential to use quantitative image analysis and artificial intelligence is one of the driving forces behind digital pathology. However, despite novel image analysis methods for pathology being described across many publications, few become widely adopted and many are not applied in more than a single study. The explanation is often straightforward: software implementing the method is simply not available, or is too complex, incomplete, or dataset-dependent for others to use. The result is a disconnect between what seems already possible in digital pathology based upon the literature, and what actually is possible for anyone wishing to apply it using currently available software. This review begins by introducing the main approaches and techniques involved in analysing pathology images. I then examine the practical challenges inherent in taking algorithms beyond proof-of-concept, from both a user and developer perspective. I describe the need for a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to developing and validating meaningful new algorithms, and argue that openness, implementation, and usability deserve more attention among digital pathology researchers. The review ends with a discussion about how digital pathology could benefit from interacting with and learning from the wider bioimage analysis community, particularly with regard to sharing data, software, and ideas. © 2022 The Author. The Journal of Pathology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSoftwareUnited Kingdomcomputational pathologydigital pathologyimage analysisimage processingopen sciencesoftware

Identifiers

PMID35481680
PMCPMC9324951

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