Digital Pathology Scheme
The concept of the UK NEQAS CPT Digital Pathology EQA Scheme is that participants are required to submit one digital image and the corresponding H&E-stained slide for each asset being utilised within the laboratory for the purposes of digital pathology diagnostics. An asset being a single digital slide scanner. This scheme is available to both public and private organisations for the quality assurance of their digital slide scanning.
No. of assessment runs:
6 distributions over a 12 month period
Stains assessed:
Haematoxylin and eosin (H&E)
Specimen types:
Specific specimen types are not requested, and Participants’ are permitted to submit any specimen type, as long as the specimen type is representative of a Participants’ in house repertoire.
This web-based scheme aims to promote quality assurance and confidence in Digital Diagnostic Cellular Pathology by using whole slide images (WSI). It is open to both medical and non-medical laboratories, offering constructive feedback on image quality from various vendor systems and their concordance with the original H&E stained glass slide.
The development will feature two initial pilot distributions for those who have expressed interest. Each pilot will require the submission of two diagnostic H&E images from two devices, along with the corresponding glass slides, regardless of specimen type. The scheme also includes data entry capabilities and asset specificity.
The pilots will begin in early 2025, with a full scheme planned for launch in quarter 3 of 2025.
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