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Sorell, Tom, Rajpoot, Nasir M. (Nasir Mahmood) and Verrill, Clare (2022) Ethical issues in computational pathology. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48 (4). pp. 278-284. doi:10.1136/medethics-2020-107024

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Abstract

This paper explores ethical issues raised by whole slide image-based computational pathology. After briefly giving examples drawn from some recent literature of advances in this field, we consider some ethical problems it might be thought to pose. These arise from (1) the tension between artificial intelligence (AI) research—with its hunger for more and more data—and the default preference in data ethics and data protection law for the minimisation of personal data collection and processing; (2) the fact that computational pathology lends itself to kinds of data fusion that go against data ethics norms and some norms of biobanking; (3) the fact that AI methods are esoteric and produce results that are sometimes unexplainable (the so-called ‘black box’problem) and (4) the fact that computational pathology is particularly dependent on scanning technology manufacturers with interests of their own in profit-making from data collection. We shall suggest that most of these issues are resolvable.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RB Pathology
T Technology > TR Photography
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Pathology -- Data processing , Pathology -- Slides (Photography) -- Data processing, Pathology -- Moral and ethical aspects , Digital images -- Moral and ethical aspects, Pathology -- Technological innovations, Medical Informatics -- Moral and ethical aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Medical Ethics
Publisher: BMJ Group
ISSN: 0306-6800
Official Date: 23 March 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
23 March 2022Published
3 March 2021Available
5 February 2021Accepted
Volume: 48
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 278-284
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2020-107024
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
18181Innovate UKhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006041
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