Digitized Whole Slides for Breast Pathology Interpretation: Current Practices and Perceptions

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 642-648

  Onega, Tracy ^a   Weaver, Donald ^b   Geller, Berta ^c   Oster, Natalia ^d   Tosteson, Anna N A ^a   Carney, Patricia A ^e   Nelson, Heidi ^e,f   Allison, Kimberly H ^g   O’Malley, Frances P ^h,i   Schnitt, Stuart J ^j   Elmore, Joann G ^k  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Providence Cancer Center   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

Digital whole slide imaging; Pathology

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SURVEYS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BREAST PATHOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRENT PRACTICES; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; SECOND OPINIONS; WHOLE SLIDE IMAGING (WSI);

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84925839068     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-014-9683-2     Document Type: Article

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