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Artificial Intelligence in Pathology – Has It’s Time Come?

Dr. Keith J. Kaplan — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:36:31 +0000

Where are we going? Where have we been? What is the future? Last month, Tempus purchased Paige AI for $81M, largely in the form of Tempus stock to, as reports mention, for PaigeAI’s datasets from 7 million slides, perhaps most of which were from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Critics were quick to point out […]

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What is Going On in Pathology?

Dr. Keith J. Kaplan — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:12:47 +0000

As a second-year medical student, the chairman of pathology at my medical school came to lecture us on inflammation and repair. Among the first chapters in the hallowed Robbins textbook of pathology (which he contributed to both from his published research and direct writing of chapters). He was the MD PhD research pathologist who was […]

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There’s a Whole Lot of Clicking Goin’ On

Dr. Keith J. Kaplan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:54:38 +0000

Unlike the song by a similar name, There’s not a whole lot of loving going on, in my heart It’s a feeling, I’m feeling through and through There’s not a whole lot of missing every time we’re apart There’s not a whole lot of loving just for you Many years ago I attended a lecture […]

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Digital pathology is just pathology, but does it matter anymore?

Dr. Keith J. Kaplan — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:24:13 +0000

Since the 1990s, many innovators to Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 companies have worked to make digital pathology a reality. While not mainstream and perhaps less than 10% of US based pathology groups have any serious implementations of digital pathology, the technology has caught up to our retinas and the legal, regulatory, and business practices […]

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Digital pathology is just pathology

Dr. Keith J. Kaplan — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:52:41 +0000

As I mentioned about 6 months ago, our practice has adopted the use of digital pathology. While it is “digital”, it is simply, pathology. At least 80% of my caseload is now viewed on a monitor. The work is done with mouse rather than microscope. The cases are images rather than glass slides (admittedly of […]

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Pathologists Shortages and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Keith J. Kaplan — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:23:56 +0000

“It isn’t knowledge that’s making trouble, but the uses it’s put to.” – Kurt Vonnegut As a resident, my chief of anatomic pathology, who was Mexican born and spoke perfect Spanglish told me, “Señor, you have to know the 3 Gs and the D – GI, Gyn, GU and Derm.” She was referring to gastrointestinal, […]

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