Recent AI Advances in Digital Breast Pathology: Models, Explainability, and Applications
AI is rapidly transforming breast pathology by improving diagnostic accuracy, workflow efficiency, and precision medicine through advances in deep learning and multimodal models.
Key Details
- 1The review summarizes foundational AI concepts such as neural networks, deep learning, and multimodal models in breast pathology.
- 2Current clinical applications include lymph node metastasis detection, Nottingham grading, biomarker quantification, and tumor classification.
- 3Explainable AI and model transparency are highlighted as critical for real-world clinical adoption.
- 4Recent developments include multimodal foundation models for comprehensive disease characterization and patient risk stratification.
- 5Major implementation challenges cover data quality, bias, regulatory requirements, cost, and workflow integration.
- 6AI integration is seen as augmenting, not replacing, pathologists to enhance diagnosis and patient care.
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