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Authors: Alfred Githuka^a,1, Ulysses G.J. Balis^b,1, Ye Chan Kim^c,d, Eileen M. Weinheimer-Haus^c,d, Christopher L. Williams^e, Jerome I. Cheng^b, Kelou Yao^f, John Blau^g, Jessica A. Baker^d, Priscilla Njenga^h, Winny Chepkemoiⁱ, Robert K. Parker^i,j, Akbar K. Waljee^c,d,2, Shahin Sayed^h,2, Mansoor N. Saleh^a,k,2

Abstract

Why this contribution matters now
While many reports describe high-performance neural networks for histology, far fewer address the practical hurdles of transplanting those models into settings lacking robust compute, network bandwidth, or subspecialty expertise. Our study demonstrates that with careful modularization—and by packaging each stage into a self-contained Jupyter notebook—sites serving under-resourced communities can deploy state-of-the-art digital pathology within months rather than years.

Read the full article: Scalable, modular whole-slide imaging pipelines for low-resource settings: A practical framework and open notebook implementation – ScienceDirect

^aDepartment of Hematology-Oncology, Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

^bDepartment of Pathology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

^cDepartment of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

^dCenter for Global Health and Equity, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

^eDepartment of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

^fDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

^gDepartment of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa, IA, USA

^hDepartment of Pathology, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya

ⁱDepartment of Surgery, AGC Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya

^jDepartment of Surgery, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

^kO’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA