Fig. 4. Weekly volume of surgical pathology images and DMA users.

The system was officially launched on January 23, 2020. Less than 2 months later, on March 11, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, which eventually led to a decline in surgical procedures. The decrease in surgical pathology specimens is visually apparent in the steep decline of uploaded images (blue line, left Y-axis) and system users (orange line, right Y-axis).