Anonymization of whole slide images in histopathology for research and education.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The exchange of health-related data is subject to regional laws and regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the United States, resulting in non-trivial challenges for researchers and educators when working with these data. In pathology, the digitization of diagnostic tissue samples inevitably generates identifying data that can consist of sensitive but also acquisition-related information stored in vendor-specific file formats. Distribution and off-clinical use of these Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are usually done in these formats, as an industry-wide standardization such as DICOM is yet only tentatively adopted and slide scanner vendors currently do not provide anonym

SUBMITTER: Bisson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10185865 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature