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
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等人于2022年提交至F1000Research的论文《无标记数字病理领域工作流管理系统的形成性可用性研究》（A formative usability study of workflow management systems in label-free digital pathology）所使用的全部必要数据、代码与说明性Readme文档。

摘要：
本研究开展了一项形成性可用性研究（formative usability study），旨在探究生物医学数据分析领域中不同工作流管理系统（workflow management system）的可用性表现。具体而言，我们聚焦于无标记数字病理（label-free digital pathology）领域的一项任务，分别针对基于图形用户界面（graphical user interface）的工作流与基于脚本的工作流（script-based workflow）两种方案展开可用性测试以完成该任务。
本研究的核心目标是首次获取生物医学图像分析（biomedical image analysis）场景下可用性系统性研究的初步认知，并为后续针对工作流管理系统的可用性研究总结实践经验与通用准则。结合无标记数字病理的特定研究场景，本研究的核心议题在于：如何开展面向科学工作流管理（scientific workflow management）的可用性研究，以及如何通过系统性的可用性研究来优化此类工具。此外，本研究还探讨了可用性研究中的资源利用与管理相关具体问题，包括受试者招募方案，以及待测试工作流的设计思路。