Diagnostic Review with Digital Pathology: Design of digitals tools for routine diagnostic use
Jesper Molin · Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology) · 2016
Digital pathology is a novel technology currently being implemented world wide. Thisthesis summarizes four years of HCI and visualization research and provides an overallunderstanding of designing workstation software for pathologists. A human-centereddesign approach has been used to create a number of design interventions.The thesis covers three main areas of inquiry: Understanding pathologists’ problemsolving processes during diagnostic review, how to build different digital tools to supportthose processes, and how to incorporate digital image analysis algorithms when buildingthese tools.The thesis consist of a kappa that provides background and context, to the remainingappended papers. The papers describe studies covering, pathologists’ navigationstrategies in gigapixel sized images, the usability of different input devices and structuredreporting interfaces, how principles from volume rendering can be used for multi-scaleimages, and how make to use of machine learning algorithms to support pathologists’diagnostic processes.Together, these design projects show how digital pathology images can be usedto create tools to make pathologists more productive. This will make it possible forpathology laboratories to replace their diagonstic workflow using glass slides, with aworkflow based on digital images.