A formative usability study of workflow management systems in label-free digital pathology - Data and Code

This repository holds the necessary data and code as well as a descriptive Readme file that was used for our publication "A formative usability study of workflow management systems in label-free digital pathology" by Markus Jelonek et al. (2022), submitted to F1000Research. Abstract: We present a formative usability study that investigates the usability of different<br> workflow management systems in the field of biomedical data analysis. Specifically, we study a task in the field of so-called label-free digital pathology and investigate one graphical user interface based workflow and one script-based workflow to solve the task. Our main intention is to gain first insights into the systematic study of usability in the context of biomedical image analysis, and formulate experiences and guidelines for future usability studies dealing with workflow management systems. Embedded in a specific setup dealing with label-free digital pathology, the core question behind our contribution is how usability studies for scientific workflow management can be conducted, and how they can be used systematically to improve such tools. Further, we address specific questions about the resource utilisation and management of usability studies, including the recruitment of participants as well as the design of specific workflows to be investigated.本仓库包含了Markus Jelonek等人2022年提交至F1000Research的学术论文《无标记数字病理学中工作流管理系统的形成性可用性研究》所配套的全部必要数据、代码及说明性Readme文档。摘要：本研究开展一项形成性可用性研究，旨在探究生物医学数据分析领域内不同工作流管理系统的可用性水平。具体而言，本次研究聚焦于所谓无标记数字病理学场景下的一项任务，分别对用于完成该任务的两类工作流方案展开调研：一类基于图形用户界面（Graphical User Interface，GUI），另一类基于脚本。我们的核心目标是首次系统性探索生物医学图像分析场景下的可用性研究范式，并为后续涉及工作流管理系统的可用性研究总结实践经验与指导原则。本研究锚定无标记数字病理学的特定应用场景，其核心议题为：如何开展面向科学工作流管理系统的可用性研究，以及如何通过系统性的此类研究优化这类工具。此外，本研究还探讨了可用性研究在资源利用与管理层面的具体问题，包括受试者招募以及待调研工作流的具体设计方案。