Professor Janet Dunn, lead for the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, said: “It is great that the UK Government recognise the important of this research and has approved the use of digital pathology for screening. It was a pleasure to work with Professor David Snead on this important study”.
The study was funded by the NIHR, Health Technology Assessment Programme and supported by the University of Warwick’s Clinical Trials Unit.
In total, six NHS hospitals took part in the DP study: University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire; The Queen’s University of Belfast; Nottingham University Hospital; Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital; United Lincolnshire Hospital and University Hospitals Birmingham. The study’s aim was to demonstrate equivalence in pathologists reporting of a sample when using digital pathology in comparison to light microscopy, the current standard. Sixteen pathologists took part in the study, four each in four specialities: Skin; Breast; GI and Renal. The pathologists reported on each anonymous sample within their speciality using both digital pathology and light microscopy. 2024 samples were used across all four specialities, a total of 16,192 reports were created during the study.
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