Abstract
Divergent descriptions of histopathologic images induce inter- and intra-observer variability in diagnosis. Even though a controlled terminology exists to describe medical imaging, pathologists do not always agree on the visual representation of the descriptive terms. The main purpose of our work is to define a methodology to build a standardized visual coding system unambiguously characterizing the terms of a microglossary. The methodology follows two steps: 1) the acquisition of experts' descriptions of images using the microglossary and 2) a consensus derivation. The procedure was applied on a set of 85 histopathological images of breast tumors described by two experts. Among the 339 objects selected in images, 176 were detected by both experts, 77% localized at the same place and 25% also identically labeled. The microglossary was enriched and illustrated via the resulting consensual descriptions. The contribution of this work supports relevant indexing of biomedical images and image-related information.
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