Image Analysis in Surgical Pathology

Image standards in Tissue-Based Diagnosis (Diagnostic Surgical Pathology)

BACKGROUND Progress in automated image analysis, virtual microscopy, hospital information systems, and interdisciplinary data exchange require image standards to be applied in tissue-based diagnosis. AIMS To describe the theoretical background, practical experiences and comparable solutions in other medical fields to promote image standards applicable for diagnostic pathology. THEORY AND EXPE...

Origins of ... image analysis in clinical pathology.

The term "image analysis" is reserved for a special discipline in pathology that aims to obtain diagnostically important information in an objective and reproducible manner, by measuring and counting. The origins of measuring microscopical images are almost as old as the microscope itself. Leeuwenhoek (fig 1) in the 17th century had developed a system to measure microscopic objects. As a refere...

Pathology in Surgical Practice

The aim of this book is to improve communication between surgeons and histopathologists. It reflects the 'team' approach to clinical management, and takes the form of a series of chapters on 35 surgical topics. Each chapter is written by a pair of surgeons and pathologists, most of whom work in the same hospital. Probably the most illuminating section is the editorial introduction, in which the...

Surgical Pathology

as granulation tissue, tubercle, inflammation, common neoplasms, etc., which may be obtained in any number in any pathological unit to illustrate the typical histological pictures, have been treated in a diagrammatic manner. While the writer has spent so much money to illustrate by coloured pictures, conditions like gangrene of the foot, histology of gas gangrene, etc., lie has effected economy...

Surgical Pathology