Digital vs Manual Scoring for Breast Pathology Webinar

The Gold Standard Paradox:

Manual vs Algorithm Assisted Scoring in
Breast Cancer Diagnostics

Watch the recording:

Image analysis algorithms are a hot topic when it comes to digital pathology - but what are the benefits and challenges in using such innovations and how do they compare to the traditional routine manual scoring to the traditional routine manual scoring under the microscope? Let this live head-to-head session give us an idea!

Join two of Australia’s leading Breast Pathologists, A/Prof Nirmala Pathmanathan of the Western Sydney Breast Cancer Institute and Dr Cameron Snell of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (previously of Mater Pathology) for this side-by-side battle of HER2 Dual ISH scoring: manual vs algorithm-assisted.

Who should attend:

Pathologists, lab scientists, researchers

Reasons to attend:

Real-time concordance of manual HER2 Dual ISH Scoring vs digitally assisted scoring.
Hear from key opinion leaders about the benefits and challenges of algorithm-assisted scoring.

Speaker:

A/Prof Nirmala Pathmanathan

Associate Professor Nirmala Pathmanathan is an anatomical pathologist at Douglas Hanly Moir with expertise in breast diseases. She is also the Service Director of the Westmead Breast Cancer Institute in Sydney, a comprehensive multidisciplinary breast cancer program covering Western Sydney. Assoc. Prof. Pathmanathan worked from 2002 to 2016 as a Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Pathology West. She is also the Designated/Lead Pathologist and the Director for the BreastScreen Program in Sydney West, a Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Sydney and Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Western Sydney.

Speaker:

Dr Cameron Snell

Dr Cameron Snell BMedSc MBBS (Melb.) DPhil (Oxon.) FRCPA is an Anatomical Pathologist and Head of Anatomical Pathology at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. He was previously Medical Director at Mater Pathology. He is involved in teaching and research, and is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. In 2010, he was awarded the Oxford Nuffield Fellowship, which allowed him to develop novel diagnostic assays and complete his PhD in tumour hypoxia. He leads the Cancer Pathology Research Group, which collaborates widely with cancer research groups in breast, melanoma, lung and gynaecological cancers. He completed his fellowship in 2014 having been awarded the Eddie Hirst memorial prize for pathological sciences.

Moderator:

Dr Richie Lazaro

Regional Pathologist APAC, Roche

AGENDA

Time:

Topic:

17:00 - 17:05

(5 minutes)

Welcome and Introduction

Dr Richie Lazaro

17:05 - 17:15

(10 minutes)

Introduction from Speakers

17:15 - 17:30

(15 minutes)

Recorded Scoring

Each pathologist will score as many of the five cases provided as possible in 10 minutes

A/Prof Nirmala Pathmanathan scoring manually

Dr Cameron Snell scoring using navify^® Digital Pathology and the uPath HER2 Dual ISH image analysis algorithm, Breast

17:30 - 17:45

(15 minutes)

Q&A Session

17:45 17:50

(5 minutes)

Closing

Dr Richie Lazaro

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