National digital pathology projects in Switzerland: A 2023 update.

Journal: Pathologie (Heidelberg, Germany)
Published Date: Nov 21, 2023

Abstract

The Swiss Digital Pathology Consortium (SDiPath) was founded in 2018 as a working group of the Swiss Society for Pathology with the aim of networking, training, and promoting digital pathology (DP) at a national level. Since then, two national surveys have been carried out on the level of knowledge, dissemination, use, and needs in DP, which have resulted in clear fields of action. In addition to organizing symposia and workshops, national guidelines were drawn up and an initiative for a national DP platform actively codesigned. With the growing use of digital image processing and artificial intelligence tools, continuous monitoring, evaluation, and exchange of experiences will be pursued, along with best practices.

Authors

  • Rainer Grobholz
    Institute of Pathology, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland; Medical Faculty University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Andrew Janowczyk
    Biomedical Engineering Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Ana Leni Frei
    Institute for Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  • Mario Kreutzfeldt
    Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Viktor H Koelzer
    Institute of Cancer and Genomic Science, University of Birmingham, 6 Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, B15 2SY, UK. vkoelzer@well.ox.ac.uk.
  • Inti Zlobec
    Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 31, 3008, Bern, Switzerland. inti.zlobec@pathology.unibe.ch.

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