Image File Management to Support International Telepathology

Image File Management to Support International Telepathology

Telepathology practice across international borders has become increasingly popular. Two years after the University of PittsburghMedical Center (UPMC) launched a telepathology consultation service with KingMed Diagnostics Laboratory in Guangzhou, China, latency issues occurred when viewing whole slide images (WSI). Our aim was to explore various image file management solutions to improve the vi...

The Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network: a support to the improvement to the public health care system

The Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network is aimed at providing uniform diagnostic telepathology services in a huge territory with a low population density. It has been designed to provide intraoperative consultations (frozen sections) in smaller community hospitals and to allow pathologists working alone to rapidly obtain a second opinion. This study provides an interim evaluation of the benefi...

Decision Support System for Multiuser Remote Microscopy in Telepathology

Recent advances in networking, robotics, and computer technology allow today realtime diagnosis, consultation, and education by using images obtained through remote microscopy. This paper presents a new approach in telepathology, the Image Guided Decision Support (IGDS) system, which integrates components for both remote microscope control and decision support. Using the Micro-Controller compon...

Effect of image compression on telepathology. A randomized clinical trial.

CONTEXT For practitioners deploying store-and-forward telepathology systems, optimization methods such as image compression need to be studied. OBJECTIVE To determine if Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPG or JPEG) compression, a glossy image compression algorithm, negatively affects the accuracy of diagnosis in telepathology. DESIGN Double-blind, randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Un...

Effects of image compression on data interpretation for telepathology