Digital immunohistochemistry: new horizons and practical solutions in breast cancer pathology

Digital immunohistochemistry: new horizons and practical solutions in breast cancer pathology

Background Digital image analysis (DA) brings new opportunities to enhance breast cancer pathology testing by providing tools to read tissue-based visual data in a more precise, accurate, and high-throughput manner compared to traditional evaluation performed by a pathologist. The applications may vary from very practical computerassisted diagnosis approaches to obtain more reproducible estimat...

Current practical applications of diagnostic immunohistochemistry in breast pathology.

In recent years, immunohistochemistry has assumed an increasingly prominent role in diagnostic breast pathology. Immunohistochemistry is now frequently used in the evaluation of many epithelial proliferations of the breast. Common applications include the use of myoepithelial markers to evaluate for stromal invasion, E-cadherin to distinguish between ductal and lobular neoplasia, high molecular...

Practical Applications of Digital Pathology.

BACKGROUND Virtual microscopy and advances in machine learning have paved the way for the ever-expanding field of digital pathology. Multiple image-based computing environments capable of performing automated quantitative and morphological analyses are the foundation on which digital pathology is built. METHODS The applications for digital pathology in the clinical setting are numerous and ar...

HER2 Testing in Invasive Breast Cancer: a Comparison between Immunohistochemistry and FISH Assays

Digital indiscretions: New horizons in medical ethics.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, the only way to disseminate patient information beyond the walls of the hospital was through medical journals or presentations. The potential for damage to the patient was minimal and was offset by the learning potential offered by it. Now the scenario has changed drastically. With the advent of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and of course,...