Effects of common image manipulations on diagnostic performance in digital pathology: human study

A very recent work of Ref.[1] studied the effects of image manipulation and image degradation on the perceived attributes of image quality (IQ) of digital pathology slides. However, before any conclusions and recommendations can be formulated regarding specific image manipulations (and IQ attributes), it is necessary to investigate their effects on the diagnostic performance of clinicians when interpreting these images. In this study, 6 expert pathologists interpreted digital images of HE it is different across tissue types. Further data analysis (including JAFROC) is ongoing and shall be reported in the conference talk.