A review of current systems for annotation of cell and tissue images in digital pathology

Abstract With the advent and great advances of methods based on deep learning in image analysis, it appears that they can be effective in digital pathology to support the work of pathologists. However, a major limitation in the development of computer-aided diagnostic systems for pathology is the cost of data annotation. Evaluation of tissue (histopathological) and cellular (cytological) specimens seems to be a complex challenge. To simplify the laborious process of obtaining a sufficiently large set of data, a number of different systems could be used for image annotation. Some of these systems are reviewed in this paper with a comparison of their capabilities.