Lens-free holographic microscopy can achieve wide-field imaging in a cost-effective and field-portable setup, making it a promising technique for point-of-care and telepathology applications. However, due to relatively narrow-band sources used in holographic microscopy, conventional colorization methods that use images reconstructed at discrete wavelengths, corresponding to e.g., red (R), green...

The high resolution and sensitivity of electron microscopy is a valuable ancillary tool or gold standard in pathological diagnosis. The conventional sample turnaround time for processing in the lab can be significantly reduced from days to hours by the microwave technology. Microwaveassisted tissue processing, in combination with digital image acquisition, enables a "same-day" diagnosis in urge...

The Virtual Microscope is being designed as an integrated computer hardware and software system that generates a highly realistic digital simulation of analog, mechanical light microscopy. We present our work over the past year in meeting the challenges in building such a system. The enhancements we made are discussed, as well as the planned future improvements. Performance results are provided...

Pathology. A simple extension to HTML is presented, whose aim is introducing a general-purpose grouping construct to allow the semantic markup of hierarchically structured hypermedia documents. Such a structural information can be used for an effective authoring, browsing and searching of documents. The authoring tool HistMaker is introduced on the basis of a model of a pathologic case; its imp...

We present here a system (hardware+software) for telemicroscopy and telecolposcopy, which can be extended for other pathological studies. Their application is intended for the support of the diagnostics and treatment of patients in remote zones within Mexico, without having to spend the resources associated with transporting them to the cities or towns where this instruments and techniques are ...

Dynamic telepathology uses a remotely controlled microscope to allow a pathologist to view samples at a remote location. However, time delays introduced by remote operation have made use of a commercial dynamic telepathology system difficult and frustrating. This paper describes experiments to evaluate and redesign the user interface. We also make recommendations for further automation to suppo...

BACKGROUND This project sought to identify the most common telepathology consultation needs of pathologists based on the anatomic section of tissue to improve quality of consultations. METHODS This cross-sectional study used a questionnaire with four questions to assess pathologists' consultation needs. The questionnaire was distributed to the 16 pathologists recruited for this study. All 16 ...