Comparison of the Manual, Semiautomatic, and Automatic Selection and Leveling of Hot Spots in Whole Slide Images for Ki-67 Quantification in Meningiomas by Zaneta Swiderska, Anna Korzynska, Tomasz Markiewicz, Malgorzata Lorent, Jakub Zak, Anna Wesolowska, Lukasz Roszkowiak, Janina Slodkowska, Bartlomiej Grala

“…The observer performance was examined by comparing results of the proposed method of automatic hot-spot selection in whole slide images, results of traditional scoring under a microscope, and results of a pathologist’s manual hot-spot selection. Methods. The results of scoring the Ki-67 index using optical scoring under a microscope, software for Ki-67 index quantification based on hot spots selected by two pathologists (resp., once and three times), and the same software but on hot spots selected by proposed automatic methods were compared using Kendall’s tau-b statistics. …”
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Standardization Efforts of Digital Pathology in Europe by Marcial García Rojo, Christel Daniel, Thomas Schrader

“…Its main objectives are evaluating and validating the common technological framework and communication standards required to access, transmit, and manage digital medical records by pathologists and other medical specialties in a networked environment.…”
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Common Weed Hosts of Insect-Transmitted Viruses of Florida Vegetable Crops by Gaurav Goyal, Harsimran K. Gill, Robert McSorley

“…This 12-page fact sheet expands upon and updates the information on several weeds reported as virus hosts by UF/IFAS plant pathologists in 2001 and provides links to further information on specific viruses that affect vegetable crops. …”
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Common Weed Hosts of Insect-Transmitted Viruses of Florida Vegetable Crops by Gaurav Goyal, Harsimran K. Gill, Robert McSorley

“…This 12-page fact sheet expands upon and updates the information on several weeds reported as virus hosts by UF/IFAS plant pathologists in 2001 and provides links to further information on specific viruses that affect vegetable crops. …”
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PseudoCell: Hard Negative Mining as Pseudo Labeling for Deep Learning-Based Centroblast Cell Detection by Narongrid Seesawad, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Thapanun Sudhawiyangkul, Phattarapong Sawangjai, Peti Thuwajit, Paisarn Boonsakan, Supasan Sripodok, Kanyakorn Veerakanjana, Komgrid Charngkaew, Ananya Pongpaibul, Napat Angkathunyakul, Narit Hnoohom, Sumeth Yuenyong, Chanitra Thuwajit, Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn

“…However, these models often require pathologists to identify centroblasts and manually provide refined labels for model optimization. …”
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The Foot That Broke Both Hips: A Case Report and Literature Review of Tumor-Induced Osteomalacia by Sara Beygi, Alfred Denio, Tarun S. Sharma

“…Only discussed as case reports, there is still limited knowledge of this condition as a potentially curable cause of osteomalacia among clinicians and pathologists. In this article, we present a case of tumor-induced osteomalacia in a 59-year-old gentleman followed by an up-to-date review of the existing literature on TIO.…”
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Advances in colorectal cancer diagnosis using optimal deep feature fusion approach on biomedical images by Sultan Refa Alotaibi, Manal Abdullah Alohali, Mashael Maashi, Hamed Alqahtani, Moneerah Alotaibi, Ahmed Mahmud

“…However, pathologists’ diagnoses are highly subjective and susceptible to inaccurate diagnoses. …”
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Metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma in prostate: A case report by Naru Shimizu, Bunya Kawamoto, Kuniyasu Muraoka

“…Because immunohistochemistry is also necessary, it is important to accurately share patient information with pathologists.…”
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Storage Artifact Masquerading as Yeast: Presenting a Diagnostic Pitfall by Elena M. Fenu, Tawfeq Naal, Elizabeth Palavecino

“…In particular, nuclear pyknosis of segmented neutrophils can occur in both peripheral blood and body fluids and may represent a diagnostic pitfall as it can mimic intracellular yeast or bacteria morphology. Pathologists are frequently asked to examine body fluid smears which are thought to contain microorganisms, and the presence of an unexpected organism can be especially concerning. …”
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Sugarcane Ratoon Stunting by Philippe Rott, Sushma Sood, Jack C. Comstock, Robert A. Gilbert, Hardev S. Sandhu

“… Ratoon stunting, also known as ratoon stunting disease (RSD), is considered by many sugarcane pathologists to be the most important disease affecting sugarcane production worldwide, because it can cause 5% to 15% crop yield losses without growers even realizing their fields are infected. …”
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Endocrine mucin-producing sweat gland carcinoma of the eyelid – A diagnostic challenge by Viral M. Bhanvadia, Ravija Kathiara, Ami Shah, Wilhemina Asari

“…Skin adnexal or sweat gland neoplasms are rare adnexal tumors that pose a diagnostic challenge for both ophthalmologists and pathologists. Endocrine mucin-producing sweat gland carcinoma (EMPSGC) is an uncommon low grade carcinoma of eccrine ducts with a predilection to occur in the periocular region in the elderly female. …”
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Advanced Methods in Fluorescence Microscopy by Luke Fritzky, David Lagunoff

“…Our effort has been to survey the modalities of microscopic fluorescence imaging available to cell biologists and perhaps useful for diagnostic pathologists. The gamut extends from established confocal laser scanning through multiphoton and TIRF to the emerging technologies of super-resolution microscopy that breech the Abbé limit of resolution. …”
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Sugarcane Ratoon Stunting by Philippe Rott, Sushma Sood, Jack C. Comstock, Robert A. Gilbert, Hardev S. Sandhu

“… Ratoon stunting, also known as ratoon stunting disease (RSD), is considered by many sugarcane pathologists to be the most important disease affecting sugarcane production worldwide, because it can cause 5% to 15% crop yield losses without growers even realizing their fields are infected. …”
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PREPARING TEACHERS FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION by Natalya V. Ryabova, Olga I. Karpunina

“…The authors dwell on the different levels and options for professional training, retraining and advanced training of pedagogical staff (teachers-psychologists, speech pathologists, educators) engaged in development, education, social integration of persons with disabilities. …”
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Multi-institutional evaluation comparing guidance from International Ki67 Working Group vs National Health Commission of China on immunohistochemistry-based Ki67 assessment alongsi... by Yin Wang, Jiarui Zou, Qinghua Cao, Guihong Dai, Panhong Fan, Xue Gong, Jinyan Jiang, Yanqing Kong, Chao Liu, Chunhui Liu, Chenjia Lu, Meiren Li, Zhiqiang Lang, Yang Lin, Yan Peng, Haiyan Shi, Yuhuan Wang, Jiu Wang, Bichen Xie, Bing Yang, Guohua Yu, Cuiping Zhang, Hengming Zhang, Luting Zhou, Zilan Zhang, Zhenli Zhu, Junmei Hao

“…They were evaluated in this multi-institutional study alongside the results from the Quantitative Dot Blot (QDB) method.MethodsThree alternative adjacent sections from 40 primary ER+ breast cancer resection blocks were randomly assigned a number from 1 to 120 for Ki67 staining and reviewed by 21 pathologists, while the other three alternative sections were sent for QDB analysis of Ki67 protein levels. …”
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Extramedullary Hematopoiesis: An Unusual Finding in Subdural Hematomas by Rong Li, Vishnu V. B. Reddy, Cheryl Ann Palmer

“…Furthermore, extramedullary hematopoiesis in subdural hematoma can pose a diagnostic challenge for general pathologists who encounter subdural hematoma evacuations seldom in their surgical pathology practices.…”
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Amorphous Extracellular Eosinophilic Material – The Diagnostic Challenge in Histopathology by P. Sivakumar, P. Rajkumar, S. K. Sridevi, L. Priyadharshini, M. Elancheran

“…These morphological features are shared with other substances such as collagen, fibrin, plasma, hyaline globules, hyalinization, and necrosis, posing a diagnostic challenge for pathologists. However, morphology, surrounding tissue morphology, and special stains can differentiate between amyloid and amyloid-like material. …”
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Schemes of eStories for Children with Social Communication Difficulties by Noura Al Ghurair, Ghada Alnaqi

“…The development process involved engineers and researchers and speech and language pathologists (SLPs) from a rehabilitation hospital, who formulated the design methodology of the Arabic app. …”
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Performance analysis of Leica Biosystems p16 monoclonal antibody in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma by Selvam Thavaraj, Max Robinson, Shubham Dayal, Claire Bowen

“…Results Across the pathologists, the agreement rate between the 2 assays ranged from OA, 98.7 – 98.8%, ANA, 98.8 -98.9%, and APA, 98.6%. …”
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Evaluating ChatGPT’s diagnostic potential for pathology images by Liya Ding, Lei Fan, Lei Fan, Miao Shen, Miao Shen, Yawen Wang, Kaiqin Sheng, Zijuan Zou, Huimin An, Zhinong Jiang

“…Additionally, four pathologists independently reviewed the same images to compare their diagnoses with the model’s outputs. …”
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