New Trends of Development in Precision Pathological Diagnosis Promoted by Artificial Intelligence

BU Hong

Abstract

Precision pathological diagnosis plays a vital role in precision medicine. Both the limited resources available to pathologists and the incessant demands for further refinement and quantification of clinical diagnosis are posing new challenges for pathologists to meet the needs for precision pathological diagnosis. It is expected that artificial intelligence (AI) will be the powerful tool that will help find solutions to this problem from different angles. The author of this article elaborated on a number of ways in which AI can help promote precision pathological diagnosis, including AI-assisted precision extraction of tissue samples, AI-assisted precision histopathologic diagnosis, AI-assisted histological grading and quantitative scoring, AI-assisted precision assessment of tumor biomarkers, AI-assisted prediction of molecular features and precision interpretation of biological information based on hematoxylin-eosin (HE) stained images, the realization of in-depth precision diagnosis based on AI-assisted information integration, and AI-assisted accurate prediction of patient survival and prognosis based on HE-stained images. The paper presents to the readers the future of smart pathology that AI will help usher in.

 

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Pathology, Precision medicine, Diagnosis


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