Publications by authors named "S Dertinger"

Article Synopsis
  • In human health risk assessment, genotoxicity hazards of chemicals typically start with a set of in vitro tests, but these tests don't capture all potential genotoxic endpoints, leading to sometimes contradictory results.
  • Mathematical modeling can improve the interpretation of these tests by accounting for each test's strengths and weaknesses, providing objective predictions with associated uncertainties.
  • A study found that combining a mammalian in vitro clastogenicity test and a gene mutation test offers strong evidence for genotoxic hazard assessment, but the bacterial reverse mutation (Ames) test alone can still provide useful evidence when no other data is available.
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Intrasinusoidal bone marrow involvement is an infrequent histological pattern observed in a limited number of B and T cell lymphomas. Mantle cell lymphoma is a biologically and prognostically heterogeneous B cell lymphoma that frequently involves the bone marrow, with interstitial, nodular-paratrabecular, or diffuse patterns. Intrasinusoidal bone marrow involvement has been described only anecdotally in this lymphoma.

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This article describes a range of high-dimensional data visualization strategies that we have explored for their ability to complement machine learning algorithm predictions derived from MultiFlow® assay results. For this exercise, we focused on seven biomarker responses resulting from the exposure of TK6 cells to each of 126 diverse chemicals over a range of concentrations. Obviously, challenges associated with visualizing seven biomarker responses were further complicated whenever there was a desire to represent the entire 126 chemical data set as opposed to results from a single chemical.

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Tumor cell fraction (TCF) estimation is a common clinical task with well-established large interobserver variability. It thus provides an ideal test bed to evaluate potential impacts of employing a tumor cell fraction computer-aided diagnostic (TCFCAD) tool to support pathologists' evaluation. During a National Slide Seminar event, pathologists (n = 69) were asked to visually estimate TCF in 10 regions of interest (ROIs) from hematoxylin and eosin colorectal cancer images intentionally curated for diverse tissue compositions, cellularity, and stain intensities.

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Background: Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD), a rare form of non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis with heterogenous clinical features, arises from precursor cells that give rise to cells of the histiocytic and monocytic lineages. An association with hematological neoplasms has been reported. Testicular RDD is rarely described, with only 9 reported cases in the literature.

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