====== What is the Pathotrainer ? ======


Pathotrainer is a dedicated tool for building, training, re-training, tuning and testing of **histopathologic tests or scoring systems**.

It is intended for use at departments of pathology, research institutes, universities and quality control organisations. 

It is intended for use by students, scientists and teachers in (bio-)medical science, histology, cytology, histopathology. 

You can use it for 

  * design, development and validation of new scoring algorithms/systems
  * training and retraining a scoring algorithm/system
  * tuning for an existing scoring algorithm/system (e.g. HER2 scoring system)
  * ring studies and surveys

Pathotrainer can guide you through the whole process from design to validation of a scoring method. 

In the pathotrainer software four roles have been defined:

  * [[as a user|user / trainee]]: you are a participant in a session that was setup for you.
  * [[home_page_supervisor|trainer / supervisor]]: you are leading a session. You can guide all the participant through the training from start to end
  * [[projectowner|project owner]]: you can setup a project and sessions. You can add content to the project and facilitate sessions, from invitations of participants to facilitate analysis of all data captured during the sessions in your project(s).
  * [[as_pma.control_admin|administrator]]: you are responsible for the complete setup of the pma.control software. You are responsible for all user administration including role-assignment.

**Suggested reading:**

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3795863/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6927897/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41374-018-0057-0