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ReviewJournal of pathology informatics2024

Seeing the random forest through the decision trees. Supporting learning health systems from histopathology with machine learning models: Challenges and opportunities.

Ricardo Gonzalez, Ashirbani Saha, Clinton J V Campbell, Peyman Nejat, Cynthia Lokker, Andrew P Norgan

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Review in Journal of pathology informatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ricardo GonzalezDeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Ashirbani SahaDepartment of Oncology, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Clinton J V CampbellWilliam Osler Health System, Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Peyman NejatDepartment of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
Cynthia LokkerHealth Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Andrew P NorganDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper discusses some overlooked challenges faced when working with machine learning models for histopathology and presents a novel opportunity to support "Learning Health Systems" with them. Initially, the authors elaborate on these challenges after separating them according to their mitigation strategies: those that need innovative approaches, time, or future technological capabilities and those that require a conceptual reappraisal from a critical perspective. Then, a novel opportunity to support "Learning Health Systems" by integrating hidden information extracted by ML models from digitalized histopathology slides with other healthcare big data is presented.

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Artificial intelligenceComputer-assistedImage processingLearning health systemMachine learningPathology

Identifiers

PMID38162950
PMCPMC10755052

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