Nuclear Pleomorphism in Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumors: Comparison of Reproducibility and Prognostic Relevance between Estimates, Manual Morphometry and Algorithmic Morphometry

no code implementations • 26 Sep 2023 • Andreas Haghofer, Eda Parlak, Alexander Bartel, Taryn A. Donovan, Charles-Antoine Assenmacher, Pompei Bolfa, Michael J. Dark, Andrea Fuchs-Baumgartinger, Andrea Klang, Kathrin Jäger, Robert Klopfleisch, Sophie Merz, Barbara Richter, F. Yvonne Schulman, Hannah Janout, Jonathan Ganz, Josef Scharinger, Marc Aubreville, Stephan M. Winkler, Matti Kiupel, Christof A. Bertram

We assessed the following nuclear evaluation methods for measurement accuracy, reproducibility, and prognostic utility: 1) anisokaryosis (karyomegaly) estimates by 11 pathologists; 2) gold standard manual morphometry of at least 100 nuclei; 3) practicable manual morphometry with stratified sampling of 12 nuclei by 9 pathologists; and 4) automated morphometry using a deep learning-based segmentation algorithm.

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Systematic Review of Methods and Prognostic Value of Mitotic Activity. Part 2: Canine Tumors

no code implementations • 31 May 2023 • Christof A. Bertram, Taryn A. Donovan, Alexander Bartel

The goal of this systematic review is to scholarly analyze the methods and prognostic relevance of histologically measuring mitotic activity in canine tumors.

Systematic Review of Methods and Prognostic Value of Mitotic Activity. Part 1: Feline Tumors

no code implementations • 2 May 2023 • Christof A. Bertram, Taryn A. Donovan, Alexander Bartel

The goal of this systematic review is scholarly analysis of all available references on mitotic activity in feline tumors, and to provide an overview of the measuring methods and prognostic value.

How Many Annotators Do We Need? -- A Study on the Influence of Inter-Observer Variability on the Reliability of Automatic Mitotic Figure Assessment

no code implementations • 4 Dec 2020 • Frauke Wilm, Christof A. Bertram, Christian Marzahl, Alexander Bartel, Taryn A. Donovan, Charles-Antoine Assenmacher, Kathrin Becker, Mark Bennett, Sarah Corner, Brieuc Cossic, Daniela Denk, Martina Dettwiler, Beatriz Garcia Gonzalez, Corinne Gurtner, Annika Lehmbecker, Sophie Merz, Stephanie Plog, Anja Schmidt, Rebecca C. Smedley, Marco Tecilla, Tuddow Thaiwong, Katharina Breininger, Matti Kiupel, Andreas Maier, Robert Klopfleisch, Marc Aubreville

Density of mitotic figures in histologic sections is a prognostically relevant characteristic for many tumours.