PathoVA: A visual analytics tool for pathology diagnosis and reporting

Alberto Corvò; Marc A. van Driel; Michel A. Westenberg

doi:10.1109/VAHC.2017.8387544

PathoVA: A visual analytics tool for pathology diagnosis and reporting

Alberto Corvò, Marc A. van Driel, Michel A. Westenberg

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Abstract

We introduce PathoVA, a visual analytics system for computer aided pathology diagnosis. The diagnostic work of a pathologist involves characterizing cells and the appearance of histological sections of tissues, which are stained by techniques that highlight particular elements. Our system supports this work by recording activities in a digital tissue slide viewer, from which a diagnostic trace is constructed automatically. The visualization of the trace is enhanced with quantitative data about the tissue obtained by image analysis. Using the trace visualization, the pathologist can fill out the pathology report according to the required protocol. We demonstrate our approach on a use case of breast tissue examination. Our qualitative evaluation shows that PathoVA supports the diagnostic procedure and simplifies reporting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, VAHC 2017
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	77-83
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538631874
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VAHC.2017.8387544
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2018
Event	8th Annual IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, VAHC 2017 - Phoenix, United States Duration: 1 Oct 2017 → …

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Conference	8th Annual IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, VAHC 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Phoenix
Period	1/10/17 → …

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The authors wish to thank Dr. Mitko Veta, from Eindhoven University of Technology, for the provided mitosis detection algorithm and Dr. Peet Nooijen from Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis for his time and the precious explanation regarding pathology practice. We thank Dirk Verhagen, from Philips Digital Pathology, for his feedback on tool usability and the different scenarios. This research was performed within the framework of the strategic joint research program on Data Science between TU/e and Philips Electronics Nederland B.V.

Keywords

breast-cancer
computational pathology
computer assisted diagnosis
Digital pathology
Nottingham Score
pathology informatics
visual analytics
workflow

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Corvò, A, van Driel, MA & Westenberg, MA 2018, PathoVA: A visual analytics tool for pathology diagnosis and reporting. in 2017 IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, VAHC 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, pp. 77-83, 8th Annual IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, VAHC 2017, Phoenix, United States, 1/10/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/VAHC.2017.8387544

PathoVA: A visual analytics tool for pathology diagnosis and reporting. / Corvò, Alberto; van Driel, Marc A.; Westenberg, Michel A.
2017 IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare, VAHC 2017. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018. p. 77-83.

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