Send us a Text Message. In this episode, join me as I speak with Dr. Greg Rose, a retired radiologist who played a key role in the digital transformation of radiology. His journey offers valuable insights and lessons for the digital pathology community. Key Points Discussed: Initial Digital Adoption Challenges: Greg's experience with transitioning …

Send us a Text Message. In this episode Dr. Aleks Zuraw sits down with Mariano De Socarraz, President of CorePlus and member of the board of directors at the Digital Pathology Association. CorePlus is an anatomic and clinical pathology lab in Puerto Rico that has fully embraced digital pathology and AI. Key Takeaways CorePlus converted to 100% whol…

Send us a Text Message. Swarm Learning in Digital Pathology: Revolutionizing Cancer Histopathology Today on the Digital Pathology Podcast my guest is Oliver Saldana, the first author of a significant Nature Medicine paper published in 2022 on 'Swarm Learning for Decentralized Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Histopathology'. Oliver shares his jour…

Send us a Text Message. Navigating Ethical Challenges in AI-Powered Pathology This episode is a webinar recording. It delves into the complex ethical considerations of incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in pathology. Dr. Zuraw begins by exploring the fundamentals of ethics and moves on to discuss the impact of AI in pathology, focusing on: …

Send us a Text Message. If any of the statements applies: ➡️ You know AI and Machine Learning are already part of the pathology workflow, but maybe you are not exactly sure which part of the workflow? ➡️ “AI” is still a bit of overhyped, fuzzy buzzword for you? ➡️ You would like to learn about how it can help pathologist and labs work smarter and p…

Send us a Text Message. What can digital pathology be used for? Is it just diagnostics or does it go beyond that? In this webinar, based on chapter 4 of my “Digital Pathology 101” book you will learn about: The transformative impact of digital pathology on healthcare. Strategies for integrating digital tools into clinical practice for improved outc…

Send us a Text Message. This week, the digital pathology community gathered at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) annual meeting in Baltimore. I had the incredible opportunity to attend, spurred by an invitation from Hamamatsu, known for their revolutionary digital pathology scanners like the FDA-cleared S360 and the new S2…

Send us a Text Message. She did it all on her own, to keep serving her patients. In this episode of Digital Pathology Podcast, host Dr. Aleksandra Zuraw is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Plocharczyk, a pathologist based in Ithaca, New York. Beth shares her experience integrating digital pathology into her practice at Guthrie Cortland Medical Center and Ca…

Send us a Text Message. Remote Digital Second Opinions: Pioneering Global Patient Care Imagine a future where accessing world-class diagnostic expertise is just a click away for any patient, anywhere. In this episode you will learn how remote digital second opinions, a specialized application of digital pathology, can drive global adoption of digit…

Send us a Text Message. Today our special guest is Dr. Keith Kaplan, the creator of TissuePathology.com himself! The publisher of a platform that inspired the creation of Digital Pathology Place. The Digital Pathology Trailblazer on the Web Dr. Keith Kaplan, a surgical pathologist and a pivotal figure in the digital pathology community, has signifi…

Send us a Text Message. This is the audio version of the second episode of the DIGITAL PATHOLOGY NEWSLETTER. that should have already landed in your inbox if you are on my digital pathology trailblazer list. (And if you are not, you can get on it here, and get a free PFD of my "Digital Pathology 101" book) HERE ARE THIS EPISODE'S RESOURCES: Digital…

Send us a Text Message. Can pathology be truly digital without getting rid of glass? In this episode with Dr. Richard Levenson, Professor and Vice Chair for Strategic Technologies at the Pathology Department of UC Davis, you’ll learn how close we are to “glassless pathology” and other digital innovations that could transform the field. In this epis…

Send us a Text Message. This is the audio version of the first brand new DIGITAL PATHOLOGY NEWSLETTER. that should have already landed in your inbox if you are subscribed to my list. If not you can join here (and get the PDF of my book for free!) THIS EPISODE'S RESOURCES: Interesting DP Research & Developments Swarm learning for decentralized artif…

Send us a Text Message. What is the status of digital pathology in under-researched areas? Is it even a thing? Can it be used? And in what capacity? In this exciting episode with Dr. Talat Zehra, a trailblazing pathologist from Karachi, Pakistan, and a finalist on the Pathologist Power List we are answering all the above questions. Dr. Zehra is a b…

Send us a Text Message. Exploring Image Analysis Innovation with Trevor McKee of Pathomics.io If you work in digital pathology, you likely rely on image analysis tools to gain insights from complex visual data. But how do you stay on top of the latest innovations in this fast-evolving field? In this podcast episode together with Trevor McKee, CEO o…

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, based on a webinar I recently gave, I delve deep into the captivating world of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its role in pathology. Have you ever pondered how language models like ChatGPT are shaping our scientific understanding? Or how they might redefine the way we process and interpret vast amount…

Send us a Text Message. The Future Landscape of Digital Pathology: Insights from Kate Lillard Tunstall, Indica Labs What insights can be gained from a 12-year-long digital pathology journey as part of one of the leading tissue image analysis solution providers? A lot has happened in that time and Kate Lillard Tunstall, the Chief Scientific Officer …

Send us a Text Message. Get the PDF of "Digital Pathology 101" Book here Image analysis has supported pathology since the introduction of whole slide scanners to the market, and when deep learning entered the scene of computer vision tissue image analysis gained superpowers. There are regulatory compliant AI-based image analysis tools available for…

Send us a Text Message. Toxicologic pathology plays a critical role in drug development, yet its intersection with digital pathology is often overlooked. As a veterinary pathologist, I want to shed light on this important application. This is Chapter 5 of the "Digital Pathology 101" book and in this chapter, you will learn how whole slide imaging i…

Send us a Text Message. Get the PDF of "Digital Pathology 101" Book here Have you started your digital pathology journey already? Chances are that if you are reading this, you have. You have started it in a particular point of "digital pathology entry". Maybe it was tissue image analysis, virtual rounds on whole slide images or validation of a scan…

Send us a Text Message. Get the PDF of "Digital Pathology 101" Book here As enthusiastic as the digital pathology community is about digital pathology, you are also grounded in reality and know that like every technology, digital pathology in parallel with its enormous benefits also has some drawbacks. This is the second chapter of the "Digital Pat…

Send us a Text Message. This is the second part of the first chapter of the recently published “Digital Pathology 101” book. This part of the chapter addresses a question that I keep hearing from those just entering the world of digital pathology: “Will pathologists lose their jobs now, that algorithms can be developed to diagnose disease?” The sho…

Send us a Text Message. Get the PDF of "Digital Pathology 101" Book here Get the paper copy of "Digital Pathology 101" on AMAZON I'm thrilled to introduce you to a long-awaited companion in your digital pathology voyage – the book, "Digital Pathology 101 - All you need to know to start and continue your digital pathology journey." This book is the …

Send us a Text Message. In this episode of "The Digital Pathology Podcast," we delve into the fascinating career of Dr. Anil Parwani from Ohio State University, a visionary whose ardor for technology and research paved the way for groundbreaking advancements in digital pathology. Dr. Parwani's journey commenced with a bold move – launching a web ed…

Send us a Text Message. What happened to digital pathology in the last decade? Step into a time machine with us as we explore "The Evolution OF Digital Pathology– From Improved Histology Quality to Fair Use of Pathology Data" alongside Dr. Matt Leavitt, President of the Digital Diagnostics Foundation and Founder of Lumea. In this captivating podcas…

Send us a Text Message. How is digital pathology used in clinical trials? Because digital pathology as a discipline began with the aim of streamlining clinical trials, one could assume that this is currently the default. Unfortunately, this is not the case… In today's discussion, our guest, Dr. Monika Lamba, a pathologist from Q2 Solutions, the lab…

Send us a Text Message. Welcome to a very spontaneous and exciting episode of the Digital Pathology Podcast. In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Giovanni Lujan from Ohio State University, whom you might remember from our previous crossover podcasts with Beyond the Scope. Recently, we were at the Digital Pathology and AI Con…

Send us a Text Message. Bringing Science into the Clinic with Prof. Anant Madabhushi Translational research - what is it actually? How do you do it? I can already tell you how not to do it - halfheartedly. If you want to translate your scientific discoveries into something that actually benefits patients, you need to do all in! And this is what my …

नमस्कार! आज सुनेंगे शरद जोशी जी का लेख "होना कुछ नहीं का"। Hello and Welcome to the Mansarovar Podcast. Today is a reading of Sharad Joshi Ji's satirical piece 'hona kuch nahi ka' from his collection called "Jeep Par Savar Illiya" धन्यवाद्! जल्दी फिर मिलना होगा - कविता पढ़ते रहिये!---INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/themansarovarprojectFACEBOO…

Send us a Text Message. Exploring Spatial Biology and Image Analysis with Lorenz Rognoni Get ready for a deep dive into spatial biology and image analysis with Lorenz Rognoni, the Director of Image Data Science at Ultivue. Ultivue is a company specializing in spatial biology and Lorenz brings his wealth of knowledge in multiplex immunofluorescence …

Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the crossover podcast with David, Giovanni and myself (Aleks) again. During this episode, we explore the world of digital pathology, artificial intelligence, including Chat GPT, and their growing importance in the field. Is 2023 the year of AI for digital pathology? We will talk about it and about the impact of AI…

Send us a Text Message. Have you heard the stereotype of a pathologist hidden behind the microscope (or in the era of digital pathology behind the computer screen). Pathologist as the doctors' doctor? Today, I have a special guest who defies this stereotype! Dr. Marilyn Bui, a specialized cytopathologist, is patient-focused and emphasizes the patie…

Send us a Text Message. Introduction Are you curious about what goes into creating a cutting-edge digital online resource like PathologyOutlines.com? Then this episode is for you! About PathologyOutlines.com PathologyOutlines.com is a living textbook that covers 4,800 topics and involves 300+ contributors and 60 editors. It's a comprehensive online…

Send us a Text Message. In digital pathology is it best to start small and incrementally implement the technology or go all in to reap all the the benefits at once? The good news is that those two approaches are not mutually exclusive, you can totally start small and scale up, and you can do it with just one vendor partner if you feel like it! This…

Send us a Text Message. The field of pathology has been revolutionized by the introduction of machine learning techniques, which enable more efficient and accurate diagnoses and have the potential to some day even eliminate or reduce the number of expensive molecular tests. However, the model development is a complex process and there are certain m…

Send us a Text Message. Today's podcast is about the regulatory aspect of digital pathology and how it fits into the space between research and clinical use called translational medicine. The podcast guest, Esther Abels, is a regulatory expert in digital pathology and a female leader in the field. She was involved in the team effort that brought th…

Send us a Text Message. Today is the International Women's Day and this month at the Digital Pathology Podcast I decided to invite some incredible women who are leaders in the digital pathology field. Today's guest, Inti Zlobec is a professor of Digital Pathology at the University of Bern. Inti is now leading the digital pathology branch of the Ins…

Send us a Text Message. Computational pathology – how did this field even start? In today’s episode my guest is Jeroen van der Laak, computational pathology professor at Radboud University Medical Center, who was recently listed on "The Pathologist Power List" in the category “Strange New worlds” Jeroen has been in the field of computational pathol…

Send us a Text Message. Although digital pathology was supposed to be faster and more seamless than classical pathology on glass there are still many manual steps in the workflow. Cleaning slides before scanning Loading the scanner Controlling the quality after scanning... What if all this could be automated and all the manual work could be signifi…

Send us a Text Message. Do you want to do tissue image analysis for FREE? Cytomine is your tool. But so are QuPath, Cell Profiler, ImageJ, and several … So how is Cytomine different? Cytomine focuses on collaboration (which is crucial in tissue image analysis projects!) and in addition to the free open-source version it also has a paid enterprise v…

Send us a Text Message. I started working in the digital pathology space, because it sounded cool. When I started my digital pathology journey in 2016 as the first full time pathologist supporting the image analysis team, I thought it was the coolest job to get straight out of my veterinary pathology residency! I was regarded as an expert (such a d…

Send us a Text Message. Several scanners have been cleared by the FDA for clinical pathology work, but what about FDAs stand on all the nonclinical pathology work done in a regulatory environment? Specifically the work done in the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) compliant environment? Can we use the slides without restrictions in lieu of glass slide…

Send us a Text Message. As much as I love Digital Pathology - things that are not always perfect, and the integrations of systems are not always seamless. We don't need to sugar coat it. And the sooner we start talking about the things that are not so cool, the sooner we will be able to change them. In this podcast episode I discuss the things that…

Send us a Text Message. This episode is brought to you by Aiforia. Thank you Aiforia :) Today you will learn how Raish Pai, MD, a busy, practicing pathologist from Mayo Clinic developed a complex supervised deep learning tissue image analysis model to quantify visual diagnostic features of colon cancer and in the process developed a model that can …

Send us a Text Message. This episode is brought to you by Hamamatsu. Thank you Hamamatsu :) So...you are already doing digital pathology in your institution but would like to scale it, take it to the next level? How do you do it, where do you start? In this episode my guest, Mark Zarella, PhD (previously Johns Hopkins University, currently Mayo Cli…

Send us a Text Message. As the digital pathology community is embarking on the journey of DICOM implementations questions we haven't asked ourselves arise... Is DICOM and image format or is it a standard? What is the difference? Are all the DICOM images the same or do they differ? how do the differences influence the technology developments and wor…

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Send us a Text Message. Did you know that pathology diagnostics through a smartphone is a thing? Really and officially! It is called static telecytology and a lot has already been published on it (see RESOURCES BELOW). This episode's guest, Dr. Kate Baker, a veterinary clinical pathologist, developed a smartphone app for veterinary telecytology! Th…

Send us a Text Message. This is a joint podcast episode where the hosts of "Beyond the Scope" - the official Digital Pathology Association podcast and the host of the "Digital Pathology Podcast" meet to talk about what is going on in our discipline. Together David Tulman, Giovanni Lujan, and Aleksandra Zuraw cover the current digital pathology topi…

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