January 2024

  • Amy’s editorial about training: Published in Histopathology! Reference to come.

  • Pivotal Study participant update:

    • 11 participants have completed the CME course

    • 5/7 participants have passed the proficiency test thus far

    • 5 participants have completed annotations

    • 16/45 (5 batches*3 readers per batch) pivotal batches have been annotated as of (2024/01/08 M)

December 2023

  • Kate’s CLEARR-AI paper: The revision is submitted!

    • Katherine Elfer et. al, “Reproducible Reporting of the Collection and Evaluation of Annotations for Artificial Intelligence Models,” Mod Pathol, submitted 2023.

  • Sourced and scanned additional 32 core biopsy slides. Current total 156!!

    • New pivotal study annotation batches coming soon!

  • Ended partnership with PathPresenter to focus future development on Emory’s open-source CaMicroscope platform.

November 2023

  • A team from FDA and PIcc presented about Digital Pathology at the FNIH Biomarkers Consortium Cancer Steering Committee (11/14/2023)

    • Pitching PIcc project to create a regulatory-ready database to validate AI/ML models based on real-world data and pathologist annotation

    • Still waiting for an official response from FNIH if they will begin a formal project in the space

October 2023

  • MDDT editorial published! S. Hart et al., “Initial interactions with the FDA on developing a validation dataset as a medical device development tool,” J Pathol, p. path.6208, Oct. 2023

September 2023

  • White paper published by Friends of Cancer Research:

    • “Supporting the Application of Computational Pathology in Oncology.” Friends of Cancer Research, Sep. 26, 2023. Available online

  • Officially switched from the NCIhub Wiki to this Wiki and HTT updates on the PIcc SharePoint.

  • Rolled out modular task workflows on CaMicroscope with the annotation selection modules such as the interactive training and pivotal batches.

New HTT project website was launched: https://didsr.github.io/HTT.home