A New Tool for Obtaining Crowd-Sourced Diagnoses for Pathology Images

Below is an announcement from Dr. Ulysses Balis, Professor of Pathology and Director of Pathology Informatics at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan:The University of Michigan Department of Pathology, Division of Pathology Informatics is very pleased to introduce a new educational tool for the global Pathology Community:www.Histoquery.org.With use of this new crowd-sourcing tool, following a simple and fast user registration process, users will be able to post educational cases to the site (comprised of one or more pathology images and an associated diagnostic question), and then be able to receive a crowd-sourced answer in a matter of seconds. Similarly, users can log on to the site as a crowd-sourcing participant, with the option of either providing a new answer or providing a vote on an already-submitted answer. Every respondent gets one vote, which may be changed as needed (but, no ballot stuffing is possible).An example of how this educational tool might be helpful would be: seeking consultation from your colleagues on a particularly difficult case in a weekly slide teaching set. Simply post an image or two along with any salient history (but no protected health information, please) and simply wait for the flow of answers and their associated histogram to appear, in real time. Result answers and counts are tabulated in real time for all to see, as a dynamically updated histogram and consequently, no web page updates or refreshes are ever requ...
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