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Sorell, Tom, Rajpoot, Nasir M. (Nasir Mahmood) and Verrill, Clare (2021) Ethical issues in computational pathology. Journal of Medical Ethics . doi:10.1136/medethics-2020-107024 (In Press)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-107024
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 | ||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RB Pathology T Technology > TR Photography |
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| 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: | 3 March 2021 | ||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1136/medethics-2020-107024 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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