US 2014/0112560 A1 · System and Method For Assessing Image Interpretability in Anatomic Pathology

Abstract

A portion of imagery data is obtained from a digital slide and a protocol of image analysis/diagnostic tasks is performed on the portion of imagery data by a pathologist or an image analysis module. The result of each task (e.g., success or no success) is recorded and a score is determined for the portion of the imagery data. Multiple portions of imagery data from the digital slide are analyzed and scored and the various scores from the multiple portions of imagery data are calculated to determine an overall score for the digital slide. Regions of the digital slide can be scored separately. Multiple rounds of scoring (by different pathologists and/or different image analysis algorithms) may be employed to increase the accuracy of the score for a digital slide or region thereof.

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Dependent claims

A system for evaluating image interpretability, the system comprising:

at least one hardware processor;
and
at least one module configured to, when executed by the at least one hardware processor,
obtain one or more portions of a digital slide image,
for each of the one or more portions of the digital slide image,
for each of one or more diagnostic tasks, manage performance of the diagnostic task on the portion of the digital slide image, and determine whether the performance of the diagnostic task was a success or a failure, and
calculate an interpretability score for the portion of the digital slide image based on the determined success or failure for each of the one or more diagnostic tasks, and
determine a single, overall interpretability score for the one or more portions of the digital slide image based on the interpretability score for each of the one or more portions of the digital slide image.

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A method for evaluating image interpretability, the method comprising using at least one hardware processor to:

obtain one or more portions of a digital slide image;
for each of the one or more portions of the digital slide image,
for each of the one or more diagnostic tasks, manage performance of the diagnostic task on the portion of the digital slide image, and determine whether the performance of the diagnostic task was a success or a failure, and
calculate an interpretability score for the portion of the digital slide image based on the determined success or failure for each of the one or more diagnostic tasks;
and
determine a single, overall interpretability score for the one or more portions of the digital slide image based on the interpretability score for each of the one or more portions of the digital slide image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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