期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
卷 71, 期 12, 页码 1075-1085出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1097/NEN.0b013e3182768de4
关键词
Alzheimer disease; Autopsy; Digital pathology; Image analysis; Neuropathology
资金
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD [P30 AG028383, S10RR026489]
Quantitative neuropathologic methods provide information that is important for both research and clinical applications. The technologic advancement of digital pathology and image analysis offers new solutions to enable valid quantification of pathologic severity that is reproducible between raters regardless of experience. Using an Aperio ScanScope XT and its accompanying image analysis software, we designed algorithms for quantitation of amyloid and tau pathologies on 65 beta-amyloid (6F/3D antibody) and 48 phospho-tau (PHF-1)Yimmunostained sections of human temporal neocortex. Quantitative digital pathologic data were compared with manual pathology counts. There were excellent correlations between manually counted and digitally analyzed neuropathologic parameters (R-2 = 0.56-0.72). Data were highly reproducible among 3 participants with varying degrees of expertise in neuropathology (intraclass correlation coefficient values, >0.910). Digital quantification also provided additional parameters, including average plaque area, which shows statistically significant differences when samples are stratified according to apolipoprotein E allele status (average plaque area, 380.9 mu m(2) in apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 carriers vs 274.4 mu m(2) for noncarriers; p < 0.001). Thus, digital pathology offers a rigorous and reproducible method for quantifying Alzheimer disease neuropathologic changes and may provide additional insights into morphologic characteristics that were previously more challenging to assess because of technical limitations.
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