Table 1.

Diagnosis categories and medical application

Diagnosis Category	Medical Task	Examples	Tools
Conventional	Disease classification	Lymphoma, Chronic hepatitis, Lung carcinoma	Classic microscopy, Immunohistochemistry, Molecular biology, morphometry, structure analysis
Prospective	Prognosis	TNM-stage, tumor proliferation rate, Apoptosis, Adhesion,	Immunohistochemistry, morphometry, structure analysis
Indicative	Therapeutic agents	Hormone receptors, Herceptin	Immunohistochemistry, Molecular biology, morphometry, structure analysis
Risk-assigned	Risk factors	BRCA1-gene	Molecular biology