For example, they would tell the computer to measure the three traits human pathologists use to determine a tumour's grade: the percentage of its cells that are tubelike; the diversity of appearance of the cell nuclei; and the proportion of cancer cells undergoing division.
That is important information because, hitherto, pathologists have focused on the cancer cells themselves and ignored the stroma.
Their technique can already identify how advanced a person's cancer is, and thus how likely it is to return after treatment.At present, pathologists assess how advanced a cancer is by taking a sample, known as a biopsy, and examining the concentration within it of specific receptors, such as EGFRs, that are known to help cancers spread.
His last book, "The Ash Tree", was written in response to the outbreak of the Chalara fungus; but a greater threat loomed from America's emerald ash borer which, having killed so many trees there, must one day land in England.It worried him that there were not more plant pathologists to keep watch.
Voilà: at peace.On job qualifications:After observing a senior pathologist talk animatedly to himself while eviscerating a body, Williams notes that pathologists "are fundamentally mad.
The system was able both to grade the slides and to predict, in a way that human pathologists could not, whether each patient would survive for five years after treatment.When Dr Koller looked at which 11 features were the most robust predictors of survival, she discovered that only eight were characteristic of the tumour cells themselves.
Cancer registries, for example, get their information from hospital records, pathologists' reports and death records.
He then sends what he has excised to a laboratory, where pathologists sample all around the outside of the extracted mass to see if it is encapsulated by healthy tissue.
But without a new crop of trained plant pathologists, it will be hard to control what will surely be a rise in new pests and diseases.
The hearing will give pathologists a chance to explain the new forensic evidence.
Moreover, pathologists sometimes get only one chance to look for clues when dissecting a body.
