Virtual biopsies : Proof of concept for a novel quantitative approach to liver biopsy adequacy and pathology education

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of American Society for Clinical Pathology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.com..

OBJECTIVES: To quantitatively measure liver biopsy adequacy requirements and the effect of a teaching intervention that uses a virtual biopsy platform.

METHODS: A library of virtual liver biopsies was created using digital whole-slide, trichrome-stained tissue sections from liver resection material and QuPath image analysis software. Blinded participants staged fibrosis on the virtual biopsies before and after a teaching intervention.

RESULTS: This platform both modeled adequacy requirements for cirrhosis diagnosis on biopsy material and measured the effect of a teaching intervention on participant performance. Using this platform, diagnostic accuracy for cirrhosis could be modeled according to the function y = λ(1 ‒ e‒x/γ). The platform demonstrated that the relationship between biopsy size and diagnostic accuracy was statistically significant and that biopsies smaller than 6 mm long and 0.8 mm wide were insufficient to diagnosis cirrhosis. The platform also measured improvement in fibrosis staging accuracy among participants following a teaching intervention.

CONCLUSIONS: These results provide proof of concept for a virtual biopsy method by which outstanding questions in anatomic pathology can be addressed quantitatively using open source software. Future work is needed to validate these findings in clinical practice.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:161

Enthalten in:

American journal of clinical pathology - 161(2024), 1 vom: 04. Jan., Seite 24-34

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sweeney, Jacob R [VerfasserIn]
Arenas, Daniel J [VerfasserIn]
Fortuna, Danielle [VerfasserIn]
Tondon, Rashmi [VerfasserIn]
Furth, Emma E [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Education
Journal Article
Liver biopsy adequacy
Quantitative anatomic pathology
Virtual biopsy

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 11.01.2024

Date Revised 11.01.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ajcp/aqad104

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360971083