Next generation diagnostic pathology: use of digital pathology and artificial intelligence tools to augment a pathological diagnosis.

Pathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of body tissue, which is typically fixed on glass slides and viewed under a microscope. Diagnostic pathology workflow with a built in safety feature of either a digital read by second pathologist or even using a computer-aided AI algorithm to check the diagnosis that was rendered by the pathologist, especially those for suspected cancers, will enable improved patient care. In summary, digital pathology-based AI tools have the potential to be a disruptive technology to standard molecular and genomic based tests, which are currently believed to the only "high value" tests capable of predicting re-occurrence and therapy response outcomes. [Extracted from the article]