{"doi":"10.1016/j.jpi.2024.100399","title":"Digital mapping of resected cancer specimens: The visual pathology report","abstract":"The current standard-of-care pathology report relies only on lengthy written text descriptions without a visual representation of the resected cancer specimen. This study demonstrates the feasibility of incorporating virtual, three-dimensional (3D) visual pathology reports to improve communication of final pathology reporting. Surgical specimens are 3D scanned and virtually mapped alongside the pathology team to replicate grossing. The 3D specimen maps are incorporated into a hybrid visual pathology report which displays the resected specimen and sampled margins alongside gross measurements, tumor characteristics, and microscopic diagnoses. Visual pathology reports were created for 10 head and neck cancer cases. Each report concisely communicated information from the final pathology report in a single page and contained significantly fewer words (293.4 words) than standard written pathology reports (850.1 words, p < 0.01). We establish the feasibility of a novel visual pathology report that includes an annotated visual model of the resected cancer specimen in place of lengthy written text of standard of care head and neck cancer pathology reports. • The current surgical pathology report format relies only on written text to describe the resected cancer specimen and sites of margin sampling without any visual representation. • 3D scanning of fresh, ex-vivo surgical specimens creates a permanent record of the oncological resection that can be referred to by the multidisciplinary cancer care team. • Digital mapping of 3D scanned resection to mirror gross examination and sectioning provides a further visual representation of the specimen and its processing. • These digital, visual pathology reports have the potential to improve communication among the multidisciplinary cancer care team and aid in more precise adjuvant treatment planning.","journal":"Journal of Pathology Informatics","year":2024,"id":451797,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9544,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1273187,"name":"Marina Aweeda","orcid":"0000-0001-9360-9592","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":953336,"name":"Alexander Perez","orcid":"0000-0001-5699-9501","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1273688,"name":"Yuna Chung","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1256507,"name":"Spencer Yueh","orcid":"0009-0008-6449-3760","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":411901,"name":"Robert J. Sinard","orcid":"0000-0001-9348-2165","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":411900,"name":"Sarah L. Rohde","orcid":"0000-0003-4353-5745","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":326686,"name":"Kyle Mannion","orcid":"0000-0001-9391-1791","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":411902,"name":"Alexander Langerman","orcid":"0000-0003-0866-463X","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":270918,"name":"Eben L. Rosenthal","orcid":"0000-0003-0294-5203","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1055229,"name":"Jie Ying Wu","orcid":"0000-0002-7306-8140","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":689471,"name":"Mitra Mehrad","orcid":"0000-0003-4180-8180","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":415120,"name":"Kim Ely","orcid":null,"position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":297609,"name":"James S. Lewis","orcid":"0000-0001-9002-1283","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":698509,"name":"Michael C. Topf","orcid":"0000-0002-1022-4417","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1273186,"name":"Carly Fassler","orcid":"0000-0001-8085-7917","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":21,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:02:45.951080Z","pmid":"39712976","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}