Diagnostic Review with Digital Pathology: Design of digitals tools for routine diagnostic use
Doctoral thesis, 2016

Digital pathology is a novel technology currently being implemented world wide. This thesis summarizes four years of HCI and visualization research and provides an overall understanding of designing workstation software for pathologists. A human-centered design approach has been used to create a number of design interventions. The thesis covers three main areas of inquiry: Understanding pathologists’ problem solving processes during diagnostic review, how to build different digital tools to support those processes, and how to incorporate digital image analysis algorithms when building these tools. The thesis consist of a kappa that provides background and context, to the remaining appended papers. The papers describe studies covering, pathologists’ navigation strategies in gigapixel sized images, the usability of different input devices and structured reporting interfaces, how principles from volume rendering can be used for multi-scale images, 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 used to create tools to make pathologists more productive. This will make it possible for pathology laboratories to replace their diagonstic workflow using glass slides, with a workflow based on digital images.

Digital pathology

Visualization

Human-computer interaction

Author

Jesper Molin

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction design

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Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Computer and Information Science

Design

Human Computer Interaction

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ISBN

978-91-7597-497-2

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Series

Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola. Ny serie: 4178

Publisher

Chalmers

Public defence

2016-11-22 14:15

Jupiter 520

Opponent: Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen, Norway

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10/22/2016