Tetsuya TSUKAMOTO is a full time Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan. Medical Doctor (1987) in Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan and Doctor of Philosophy (1991) in Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan. Worked in cancer research in Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, and University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Involved in Pathological field in Division of Oncological Pathology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya and Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan, steering the clinical, teaching, training and research works. Member of Digital Pathology Association, Japan, Japanese Society of Pathology, Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology, Japanese Society of Toxicologic Pathology, and Japanese Cancer Association. He has over 200 peer reviewed research publications in oncological and experimental pathology and more than 20 book chapters to his credit. Currently he is involved in image analysis using deep learning and computer-aided detection/diagnosis in pathological cytological fields.
Urine cytology, which is based on the examination of cellular images obtained from urine, is widely used for the diagnosis of bladder cancer. However, the diagnosis is sometimes difficult in highly heterogeneous carcinomas exhibiting weak cellular...
BACKGROUND/AIM: Lymphoid follicles hyperplasia (LH) is sometimes observed in the normal colon as small, round, yellowish-white nodules. LH is associated with food hypersensitivity and bowel symptoms and histologically characterized as intense infi...
Interstitial pneumonia of uncertain cause is referred to as idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP). Among the various types of IIPs, the prognosis of cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is extremely poor, and accurate differentiation bet...