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Quality assessment in the age of machine‐aided cervical cytology screening
Author(s) -
Renshaw Andrew A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
cancer cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.20722
Subject(s) - medicine , quality assurance , cytology , cervical screening , medical physics , quality assessment , quality (philosophy) , cervical cancer , pathology , cancer , external quality assessment , philosophy , epistemology
The shift toward machine‐aided cytologic screening brings with it changing expectations from patients and clinicians. Although cytologists have long considered cytology to be both an art and a science, automated screening techniques bear the expectation of being evaluable using verifiable scientific methods, rather than artistic ones. At present, it appears that the optimal cervical cytologic screening method may combine the technical advances made in the United States with the quality assurance methods (e.g., prescreening of slides) used in Europe.