Digital Pathology - A new way to analyze biopsies

[Darryl]

Here's an interesting interview I completed, yesterday, about digital pathology...a method of digitalizing biopsy slides and then using computer analysis to come up with a Gleason Score. This is already being used in Europe and has only just now received FDA approval for use in the USA.

bit.ly/2qTdDq8

[rococo]

Trying to make an art a science. Hope they get the best pathologist to program it.

[Hidden]

Darry, good questions, good job.

[herb1]

Great idea Darryl. I first suggested it for explosives in the 1980s, then for mammograms and now prostate tissue. Problem seems to be: what do you tell the computer (scanner) to look for? Photo enhancement is one thing but there must be something in the years of training of a pathologist that allows him/her to say this tissue (prostate or breast) is bad. That's proven hard to capture in a file. And, why are some pathologists better than others???

herb s.

[Scruffybut1]

Good morning Darryl, I have read your latest post 3 times and the replies. I am tempted to say astonishing but in reality it's a logical extension to the use of IT and it will enable the PCa pathologists to work more closely with each other workdwide including poorer nations. My Zoladex (3rd year) can still bring me to tears when I read such uplifting hope. Best wishes David.