CD, or not CD, that is the question: a digital interobserver agreement study in coeliac disease.
James DenholmBenjamin A SchreiberFlorian JaeckleMike N WicksEmyr W BenbowTim S BraceyJames Y H ChanLorant FarkasEve FryerKishore GopalakrishnanCaroline A HughesKathryn J KirkwoodGerald LangmanBetania Mahler-AraujoRaymond F T McMahonKhun La Win MyintSonali NatuAndrew RobinsonAshraf SandukaKatharine A SheppardYee Wah TsangMark J ArendsElizabeth J SoilleuxPublished in: BMJ open gastroenterology (2024)
We showed that the addition of serological data significantly improves the quality of CD diagnosis. However, the limited interobserver agreement in CD diagnosis using digitised WSIs, even after the inclusion of IgA tTG and Hb data, indicates the importance of interpreting duodenal biopsy in the appropriate clinical context. It further highlights the unmet need for an objective means of reproducible duodenal biopsy diagnosis, such as the automated analysis of WSIs using artificial intelligence.