Francesca Vanzo
Consorzio Arsenal.IT, Italy
Title: What’s new in organ transplantation’s digital pathology: Review and highlights
Biography
Biography: Francesca Vanzo
Abstract
Digital pathology represents one of the key factors in the future of organ transplantation. Our aim was to review the reliability of digital pathology and telepathology services. We searched scientific products in PubMed by coding key words as follows: Transplantation, digital pathology and telepathology, during the last 10 years. To each article has been given a score on eight different categories concerning digital pathology aspects in transplantation: Preparation, administrative, digital imaging creation, image analysis, image display, reliability study, General IT management and system integration. A total of 294 scientific articles have been found from 2006 to 2016. 25 articles have been analytically detailed. The remaining articles were not included as they could not be categorized. 19% of the articles evaluated image analysis algorithms applications or digital images. 15% of the articles focused the digital image creation. 8% of the articles provided a focus on the pre-analytical phase of slide preparation. 5% of the articles included administrative aspects. 4% of the articles described the IT management and 4% of the articles developed issues on system integration between Healthcare Information Systems. Main conclusions: Review of the Literature provide all information to build safe digital pathology and telepathology services during organ transplantation; most of studies verified the quality of image digital analysis, image display and digital imaging creation; major investments has to be posed to system integration systems and IT management or administrative staff in order to overcome unmet needs when building digital pathology services during organ transplantation.