Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin America
The most widely accepted and used type of digital pathology (DP) is whole-slide imaging (WSI). The USFDA granted two WSI system approvals for primary diagnosis, the first in 2017. In Latin America, DP has the potential to reshape healthcare by enhancing diagnostic capabilities through artificial int...
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| author | Renata A. Coudry Emilio A.C.P. Assis Fernando Pereira Frassetto Angela Marie Jansen Leonard Medeiros da Silva Rafael Parra-Medina Mauro Saieg |
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| description | The most widely accepted and used type of digital pathology (DP) is whole-slide imaging (WSI). The USFDA granted two WSI system approvals for primary diagnosis, the first in 2017. In Latin America, DP has the potential to reshape healthcare by enhancing diagnostic capabilities through artificial intelligence (AI) and standardizing pathology reports. Yet, we must tackle regulatory hurdles, training, resource availability, and unique challenges to the region. Collectively addressing these hurdles can enable the region to harness DP’s advantages—enhancing disease diagnosis, medical research, and healthcare accessibility for its population. Americas Health Foundation assembled a panel of Latin American pathologists who are experts in DP to assess the hurdles to implementing it into pathologists’ workflows in the region and provide recommendations for overcoming them. Some key steps recommended include creating a Latin American Society of Digital Pathology to provide continuing education, developing AI models trained on the Latin American population, establishing national regulatory frameworks for protecting the data, and standardizing formats for DP images to ensure that pathologists can collaborate and validate specimens across the various DP platforms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c641e0ebba07429b81971fb17c67c1382024-04-13T04:21:11ZengElsevierJournal of Pathology Informatics2153-35392024-12-0115100369Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin AmericaRenata A. Coudry0Emilio A.C.P. Assis1Fernando Pereira Frassetto2Angela Marie Jansen3Leonard Medeiros da Silva4Rafael Parra-Medina5Mauro Saieg6UnitedHealth Group Brazil, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Corresponding author at: Department of Pathology, United Health Group Brazil, Alameda Santos, 764. Jardim Paulista, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.CIDAP, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, BrazilAmericas/UnitedHealth Group, São Paulo, SP, BrazilAmericas Health Foundation, Washington, DC, USAGrupo Oncoclínicas, São Paulo, SP, BrazilNational Cancer Institute (INC), Bogotá, Colombia; Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud (FUCS), Bogotá, ColombiaGrupo Fleury, São Paulo, Brazil; Santa Casa Medical School, São Paulo, SP, BrazilThe most widely accepted and used type of digital pathology (DP) is whole-slide imaging (WSI). The USFDA granted two WSI system approvals for primary diagnosis, the first in 2017. In Latin America, DP has the potential to reshape healthcare by enhancing diagnostic capabilities through artificial intelligence (AI) and standardizing pathology reports. Yet, we must tackle regulatory hurdles, training, resource availability, and unique challenges to the region. Collectively addressing these hurdles can enable the region to harness DP’s advantages—enhancing disease diagnosis, medical research, and healthcare accessibility for its population. Americas Health Foundation assembled a panel of Latin American pathologists who are experts in DP to assess the hurdles to implementing it into pathologists’ workflows in the region and provide recommendations for overcoming them. Some key steps recommended include creating a Latin American Society of Digital Pathology to provide continuing education, developing AI models trained on the Latin American population, establishing national regulatory frameworks for protecting the data, and standardizing formats for DP images to ensure that pathologists can collaborate and validate specimens across the various DP platforms.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2153353924000087Digital pathologyDigital pathology in Latin AmericaPathologyTelepathologyWhole-slide imaging |
| spellingShingle | Renata A. Coudry Emilio A.C.P. Assis Fernando Pereira Frassetto Angela Marie Jansen Leonard Medeiros da Silva Rafael Parra-Medina Mauro Saieg Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin America Journal of Pathology Informatics Digital pathology Digital pathology in Latin America Pathology Telepathology Whole-slide imaging |
| title | Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin America |
| title_full | Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin America |
| title_fullStr | Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin America |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin America |
| title_short | Crossing the Andes: Challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in Latin America |
| title_sort | crossing the andes challenges and opportunities for digital pathology in latin america |
| topic | Digital pathology Digital pathology in Latin America Pathology Telepathology Whole-slide imaging |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2153353924000087 |
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