Construction of web-based remote diagnosis system using virtual slide for routine pathology slides of the rural hospital in Japan
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Background In recent years, Japan has been short of pathologists. There are about 2,000 board-certified pathologists against 130 million people. Most pathologists are working in the urban area and only few are available in rural regions. Telepathology in Japan developed under these circumstances, mainly for intraoperative frozen section diagnosis where no pathologist is available. We have been performing frozen section telepathology for more than 10 years, and achieved fairly good results [1]. In this work, we constructed a web-based remote diagnosis system using virtual slide targeting routine pathology slides.
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