Efficient cellular annotation of histopathology slides with real-time AI augmentation

Abstract

In recent years, a steady swell of biological image data has driven rapid progress in healthcare applications of computer vision and machine learning. To make sense of this data, scientists often rely on detailed annotations from domain experts for training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The time-consuming and costly process of collecting annotations presents a sizable bottleneck for AI research and development. HALS (Human-Augmenting Labeling System) is a collaborative human-AI labeling workflow that uses an iterative “review-and-revise” model to improve the efficiency of this critical process in computational pathology.