[A national survey from the French Society of Pathology on research and application of artificial intelligence in pathology].

The 2030 French Innovation Healthcare national plan defined "Digital Healthcare" as one of its priority. The deployment of digital pathology and artificial intelligence fits perfectly into this framework. Therefore we evaluated the pathologist's interest in those fields by conducting an online survey among members of the French Society of Pathology, mainly composed of senior pathologists and trainees (n=2301). We collected 123 answers originating nationwide and representative of all status of practice. A heavy majority of participants (83%) declared themselves "interested or very interested" in digital transition and AI. Twenty-six percent of participants took part in academic research projects and 20% in industrial research projects. With digital pathology becoming increasingly common nationwide, there is a growing interest of pathologists in the development and validation of AI algorithms. In order to support this dynamic, a commission for research on artificial intelligence has been created under the authority of the French Society of Pathology.