Digital pathology and COVID-19 and future crises: pathologists can safely diagnose cases from home using a consumer monitor and a mini PC

Cimadamore, Alessia; López-Beltrán, Antonio; Scarpelli, Marina; Cheng, Liang; Montironi, Rodolfo

doi:10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206943

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“…This implies that in the real world there is limited standardization of viewing displays and network bandwidth. Indeed, this was a common finding uncovered related to the COVID-19 pandemic and working remotely (Cimadamore et al, 2020), which included multicenter training events (Eccher et al, 2021). To address need to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 the College of American Pathologists (CAP) issued "COVID-19 Remote Sign-Out Guidance" that stated pathologists "may use a non-FDA approved system as long as it has been properly validated" for primary diagnosis (Borowsky et al, 2020).…”

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Digital Slide Assessment for Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Combined Positive Score in Head and Neck Squamous Carcinoma: Focus on Validation and Vision

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Digital Slide Assessment for Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Combined Positive Score in Head and Neck Squamous Carcinoma: Focus on Validation and Vision

Eccher¹,

Girolami

Troncone

et al. 2021

Front. Artif. Intell.

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“…9 10 A point brought out by our own survey and others has noted that DP remains dependent on the support of local IT, histolab, and scanner infrastructure and personnel. 11 It is critical to not look past the fact that digital slides, although virtual, have paired physical samples which have been carefully prepared and manually introduced into the DP pipeline. Taken together, this survey and the opinions and results of other surveys again solidify the notion that DP is a multidisciplinary team endeavour and must be treated as such.…”

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Update on the current opinion, status and future development of digital pathology in Switzerland in light of COVID-19

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AimsThe transition from analogue to digital pathology (DP) in Switzerland has coincided with the COVID-19 crisis. The Swiss Digital Pathology Consortium conducted a national survey to assess the experience of pathologists in dealing with the challenges of the pandemic and how this has influenced the outlook and adoption of DP.MethodsA survey containing 20 questions relating to DP, personal experiences and challenges during the pandemic was addressed to Swiss pathologists at different experience stages in private practice, community and university hospitals.ResultsAll 74 respondents were pathologists, with 81.1% reporting more than 5 years of diagnostic service experience. 32.5% reported having read 100 digital slides or more in a diagnostic context. 39.2% reported using whole slide imaging systems at their primary workplace. Key DP use cases before the COVID-19 lockdown were tumour boards (39.2%), education (60.8%) and research (44.6%), with DP used for primary diagnosis in 13.5%. During the COVID-19 crisis, the use of DP for primary diagnostics more than doubled (30% vs 13.5%), with internal consults as important drivers (22.5% vs 16.5%), while research use (25% vs 44.6%) and external consults (17.5% vs 41.9%) strongly decreased. Key challenges identified included a lack of established standard operating procedures and availability of specialised hardware and software.ConclusionsThis survey indicates that the crisis acted as a catalyst in promoting DP adoption in centres where basic workflows were already established while posing major technical and organisational challenges in institutions that were at an early stage of DP implementation.

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“…DM was born approximately 40 years ago [ 4 ]. Professor Peter H. Bartels (University of Arizona) contributed to the development of this field.…”

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Lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: pathologists need to build their confidence on working in a digital microscopy environment

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Digital pathology and COVID-19 and future crises: pathologists can safely diagnose cases from home using a consumer monitor and a mini PC

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Digital Slide Assessment for Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Combined Positive Score in Head and Neck Squamous Carcinoma: Focus on Validation and Vision

Digital Slide Assessment for Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Combined Positive Score in Head and Neck Squamous Carcinoma: Focus on Validation and Vision

Update on the current opinion, status and future development of digital pathology in Switzerland in light of COVID-19

Lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: pathologists need to build their confidence on working in a digital microscopy environment

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