Abstract
A joint task force of the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently completed a 2-year effort to revise the Bethesda System "blue book" atlas and develop a complementary web-based collection of cervical cytology images. The web-based collection of images is housed on the ASC website, which went live on November 5th, 2003; it can be directly accessed at .
Highlights
The web-based collection of images is housed on the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) website, which went live on November 5th, 2003; it can be directly accessed at http://www.cytopathology.org/NIH/
The second edition has tripled in size from the original version, with a total of 186 images of which 90% are new images and 40% are from liquid based specimens
The image selection process for the book atlas and website involved a multistage review: Step 1: individual Bethesda forum group members (32 participants) reviewed and selected images for their chapter from among those in the first edition of the atlas and new submissions; and Step 2: the images selected from Step 1 were reviewed individually ("validated") by 13 task force members and scored on a scale of 1–5 for agreement with interpretation and quality of image
Summary
The image selection process for the book atlas and website involved a multistage review: Step 1: individual Bethesda forum group members (32 participants) reviewed and selected images for their chapter from among those in the first edition of the atlas and new submissions; and Step 2: the images selected from Step 1 were reviewed individually ("validated") by 13 task force members and scored on a scale of 1–5 for agreement with interpretation and quality of image. Second edition of 'The Bethesda System for reporting cervical cytology' – atlas, website, and Bethesda interobserver reproducibility project
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