The Comparative Pathology Workbench: Interactive visual analytics for biomedical data.

Embedded discussion Image spreadsheet Image visualisation Shared workspace Visual analytics Visual comparison

Journal

Journal of pathology informatics
ISSN: 2229-5089
Titre abrégé: J Pathol Inform
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101528849

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2023
Historique:
received: 20 04 2023
revised: 07 07 2023
accepted: 04 08 2023
medline: 11 9 2023
pubmed: 11 9 2023
entrez: 11 9 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Pathologists need to compare histopathological images of normal and diseased tissues between different samples, cases, and species. We have designed an interactive system, termed Comparative Pathology Workbench (CPW), which allows direct and dynamic comparison of images at a variety of magnifications, selected regions of interest, as well as the results of image analysis or other data analyses such as scRNA-seq. This allows pathologists to indicate key diagnostic features, with a mechanism to allow discussion threads amongst expert groups of pathologists and other disciplines. The data and associated discussions can be accessed online from anywhere in the world. The Comparative Pathology Workbench (CPW) is a web-browser-based visual analytics platform providing shared access to an interactive "spreadsheet" style presentation of image and associated analysis data. The CPW provides a grid layout of rows and columns so that images that correspond to matching data can be organised in the form of an image-enabled "spreadsheet". An individual workbench can be shared with other users with read-only or full edit access as required. In addition, each workbench element or the whole bench itself has an associated discussion thread to allow collaborative analysis and consensual interpretation of the data. The CPW is a Django-based web-application that hosts the workbench data, manages users, and user-preferences. All image data are hosted by other resource applications such as OMERO or the Digital Slide Archive. Further resources can be added as required. The discussion threads are managed using WordPress and include additional graphical and image data. The CPW has been developed to allow integration of image analysis outputs from systems such as QuPath or ImageJ. All software is open-source and available from a GitHub repository.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37693862
doi: 10.1016/j.jpi.2023.100328
pii: S2153-3539(23)00142-6
pmc: PMC10491844
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

100328

Informations de copyright

© 2023 The Authors.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Références

Histopathology. 2020 Apr;76(5):640-649
pubmed: 31821583
Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7777):187-192
pubmed: 31597973
Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 4;7(1):16878
pubmed: 29203879
IEEE Comput Graph Appl. 2006 Jan-Feb;26(1):10-3
pubmed: 16463473
Nat Methods. 2012 Feb 28;9(3):245-53
pubmed: 22373911
J Pathol Inform. 2022 Oct 28;13:100151
pubmed: 36605111
Cancer Res. 2017 Nov 1;77(21):e75-e78
pubmed: 29092945
J Pathol. 2023 Apr;259(4):468
pubmed: 36715663
Nat Commun. 2019 May 17;10(1):2213
pubmed: 31101826
Histopathology. 2022 Jan;80(1):135-149
pubmed: 34958502
Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Jan 7;50(D1):D129-D140
pubmed: 34850121
Mod Pathol. 2021 Nov;34(11):2009-2019
pubmed: 34155350
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2023 Feb 15;23(1):36
pubmed: 36793076
Nat Commun. 2019 Jan 21;10(1):353
pubmed: 30664638
Nat Methods. 2017 Aug;14(8):775-781
pubmed: 28775673
Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2023 Sep;20(9):597-614
pubmed: 37258747

Auteurs

Michael N Wicks (MN)

Edinburgh Pathology & Centre for Comparative Pathology, Institute of Genetics & Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.

Michael Glinka (M)

Edinburgh Pathology & Centre for Comparative Pathology, Institute of Genetics & Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.

Bill Hill (B)

Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Derek Houghton (D)

Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Mehran Sharghi (M)

Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Ingrid Ferreira (I)

Edinburgh Pathology & Centre for Comparative Pathology, Institute of Genetics & Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.
Experimental Cancer Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.

David Adams (D)

Experimental Cancer Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.

Shahida Din (S)

Edinburgh IBD Unit Western General Hospital, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK.

Irene Papatheodorou (I)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.

Kathryn Kirkwood (K)

Pathology Department, Western General Hospital, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK.

Michael Cheeseman (M)

Edinburgh Pathology & Centre for Comparative Pathology, Institute of Genetics & Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.

Albert Burger (A)

Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Richard A Baldock (RA)

Edinburgh Pathology & Centre for Comparative Pathology, Institute of Genetics & Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.

Mark J Arends (MJ)

Edinburgh Pathology & Centre for Comparative Pathology, Institute of Genetics & Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.

Classifications MeSH