An interobserver reproducibility study on invasiveness of bladder cancer using virtual microscopy and heatmaps

Histopathology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 756-766

  Compérat, Eva ^a   Egevad, Lars ^b   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^c   Camparo, Philippe ^d   Algaba, Ferran ^e   Amin, Mahul ^f   Epstein, Jonathan I ^g   Hamberg, Hans ^h   Hulsbergen van de Kaa, Christina ⁱ   Kristiansen, Glen ^j   Montironi, Rodolfo ^k   Pan, Chin Chen ^l   Heloir, Fabrice ^m   Treurniet, Kilian ⁿ   Sykes, Jenna ^o   Van der Kwast, Theo H ^p  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^d Department of Pathology ^*  (France)

^e FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

^f CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

ⁱ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^l TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^m Aurora Interactive LTD   (Canada)

ⁿ LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^p ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Interobserver variation; Pathological stage; pT1 bladder cancer; Virtual microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CANCER TISSUE; CONSENSUS; HEAT MAP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MICROSCOPY; NON MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TUMOR INVASION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY;

BLADDER CANCER; INTEROBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGICAL STAGE; PT1 BLADDER CANCER; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84887823804     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/his.12214     Document Type: Article

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