As other people have commented, augmentation is a very good idea, and automation is part of that. The title of this submission indicates something entirely diff

As other people have commented, augmentation is a very good idea, and automation is part of that. The title of this submission indicates something entirely different to that however. As an aside, the really interesting part of image analysis is not that we can automatically detect tumor cells, but that machine learning can extract features from pathology specimens that a human could never see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23100629 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23100629