Computational Pathology: A Survey Review and the Way Forward

Overview

Journal J Pathol Inform

Specialty Medical Informatics

Date 2024 Feb 29

PMID 38420608

Authors

Mahdi S Hosseini

Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh

Lyndon Chan

Danial Hasan

Xingwen Li

Stephen Yang

Taehyo Kim

Haochen Zhang

Theodore Wu

Kajanan Chinniah

Sina Maghsoudlou

Ryan Zhang

Jiadai Zhu

Samir Khaki

Andrei Buin

Fatemeh Chaji

Ala Salehi

Bich Ngoc Nguyen

Dimitris Samaras

Konstantinos N Plataniotis

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Abstract

Computational Pathology (CPath) is an interdisciplinary science that augments developments of computational approaches to analyze and model medical histopathology images. The main objective for CPath is to develop infrastructure and workflows of digital diagnostics as an assistive CAD system for clinical pathology, facilitating transformational changes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer that are mainly address by CPath tools. With evergrowing developments in deep learning and computer vision algorithms, and the ease of the data flow from digital pathology, currently CPath is witnessing a paradigm shift. Despite the sheer volume of engineering and scientific works being introduced for cancer image analysis, there is still a considerable gap of adopting and integrating these algorithms in clinical practice. This raises a significant question regarding the direction and trends that are undertaken in CPath. In this article we provide a comprehensive review of more than 800 papers to address the challenges faced in problem design all-the-way to the application and implementation viewpoints. We have catalogued each paper into a model-card by examining the key works and challenges faced to layout the current landscape in CPath. We hope this helps the community to locate relevant works and facilitate understanding of the field's future directions. In a nutshell, we oversee the CPath developments in cycle of stages which are required to be cohesively linked together to address the challenges associated with such multidisciplinary science. We overview this cycle from different perspectives of data-centric, model-centric, and application-centric problems. We finally sketch remaining challenges and provide directions for future technical developments and clinical integration of CPath. For updated information on this survey review paper and accessing to the original model cards repository, please refer to GitHub. Updated version of this draft can also be found from arXiv.

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