Finding a metastasis in a lymph node slide

The task is narrow, finding deposits of breast cancer in sentinel lymph node sections, and the comparison was a simulation built to imitate a normal workload. The best algorithm was described by the authors as comparable to a single pathologist given unlimited time, not better than one. A metastasis found on a slide is a fact, not a report: staging the disease, taking the case to the tumour board and choosing what to give the patient afterwards were all outside the exercise. What was measured is the detection of a small object on a large image. What was not measured is the signature under the diagnosis.