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January 28, 2000Volume 28, Number 18



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PathMaster database aiding in cancer cell diagnosis

Yale researchers have received a $1.5 million grant to develop a computer system that will analyze cancer cells and compare them against thousands of other specimens.

The grant awarded to the Center for Medical Informatics will be used to analyze two types of cancer cells -- lymph and thyroid -- with a high-performance computer network.

The goal is to use the PathMaster computer system to help pathologists make their diagnoses, and to test the capabilities of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) in a research program supported by the National Library of Medicine.

"When someone sends in new images from a specimen, each will be analyzed and compared against this database to see which cells match best," says Dr. Perry Miller, professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine and director of Medical Informatics.

PathMaster was developed by Dr. Mark Mattie, an associate research scientist in pathology who works closely with Miller. The database currently contains about 500 images. The goal is to reach 30,000 images over the next three years.

"PathMaster is designed to help the pathologist in the process of making a diagnosis based on a set of cells seen in a cytologic specimen," Miller says.

In addition to providing a tool for pathologists, he says the PathMaster program is one of several projects approved by the National Library of Medicine to test the capabilities of the NGI.

"The nation is interested in building the NGI and the National Library of Medicine wants to help define what the needs of medicine will be," Miller says. "The Internet as it is today is slow and has security limitations. The NGI will be much faster with a much higher bandwidth, which is needed for remote use. Images are a good test of the NGI. The real purpose of this grant is to develop PathMaster specifically as a way to test the network characteristics it will require." These include quality of service, medical data privacy and security, nomadic computing, network management, and infrastructure technology for scientific collaboration.

-- By Jacqueline Weaver


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