238: How Do We Know AI Is Ready for Pathology

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Dr. Aleksandra Zuraw discusses the misconception that one needs specific tools to start learning digital pathology.

Send us Fan Mail Do you really need a scanner, whole slide images, and AI infrastructure before you can start in digital pathology? In this episode, I argue that you do not. I’m Dr. Aleksandra Zuraw, veterinary pathologist and digital pathology educator, and this talk is about a belief I hear all the time: I don’t have the tools yet, so there is no point learning digital pathology. I used to think that too. When I was training in Berlin, there was one Leica 6-slide scanner, and it felt like d...

People in this episode

Host: Aleksandra Zuraw

Topics covered

• digital pathology
• AI in healthcare
• pathology education
• technology in medicine
• scanning technology

Keywords

• digital pathology
• AI
• scanners
• whole slide images
• pathology education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Leica

Places: Berlin

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