Creation of a fully digital pathology slide archive by high-volume tissue slide scanning

被引:79
作者
Huisman, Andre [1 ]
Looijen, Arnoud [2 ]
van den Brink, Steven M. [1 ]
van Diest, Paul J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Med Ctr Utrecht, Dept Pathol, NL-3508 GA Utrecht, Netherlands
[2] Univ Med Ctr, Directorate Informat Technol, NL-3508 GA Utrecht, Netherlands
关键词
Virtual microscopy; Slide scanning; Whole slide images; Telepathology; Telemedicine; Digital slide archive; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; EFFICIENCY; TOOL;
D O I
10.1016/j.humpath.2009.08.026
中图分类号
R36 [病理学];
学科分类号
100104 ;
摘要
Digital slide scanners for scanning glass slides are becoming increasingly popular because current scanners are fast enough and produce good enough images for diagnostic purposes, education, and research. Also, the price for storing vast amounts of data has decreased over the last years, and this trend is expected to continue. Where most laboratories use their scanners mainly for education and research with limited financial and technical implications, we decided to thee the huge challenges of prospectively setting up a fully digital pathology slide archive, primarily aiming to optimize the preparation and running of clinicopathological conferences. In this article, we describe the setup of our digital archiving solution and discuss the technical challenges we had to overcome. To give insight in the performance of our digital archive, we provide some statistics as well. We also present our thoughts on future developments in the area of digital slide scanning. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:751 / 757
页数:7
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